were never meant to, in a manner that will never work in a timely enough fashion, nor be conducted without fraud. So I'll simply say that I hate the USPS, and leave it at that until a more relevant issue comes up.

It may be. Problem is, veterans are entitled to more than what they can actually get from the VA. Veterans have earned things. They are owed things. The military itself serves a mission and purpose that simply cannot be replaced, one that is critical to the existence of the United States. The USPS though? They don't have near that same weight. They were started off as a measure to spy on Americans, and then became just another bloated mess that takes far too much for the poor job it does, answerable only to the highest levels, making local recourse an impossibility. But as much as I'd love to see them shut down and that money staying in peoples pockets or going to actual worthwhile ends, that ain't the issue actually going on. The real issue is mail-in voting, and that's another mess only tangently related because the left thinks they're being slick, waiving the ID requirements for absentee voting the same breath they attempt to throw money at the USPS to carry out a job they

We have Trump because of Obama, Clinton, and Bush.

Nevermind the holier than you tone, infantilizing, derision, insulting the intelligence of any who dares to disagree, at one point he straight up called me a Chinese bot for having to audacity to disagree, etc.

Real easy to do when you're poking a misrepresentation.

Welcome to the club.

It'd save a lot of time if you just said. Your wall of text ain't hiding the derision, deliberate misrepresentation, or condescension.

The VA didn't improve until it was entirely overhauled, and it's still shit to the guys who need it most.
As for the military, that's unit dependent. We sure as fuck need fat trimmed, too much paperwork and bureaucracy to be consistently effective. The likes of Puller and Murphy have been saying for decades that pomp and paperwork in lieu of training and bullets only invites waste and erodes combat effectiveness, and I've seen firsthand how right they are. But that's irrelevant, responding to a dynamic battlefield and only recently being tasked to seek out, close with, and kill the enemy (and actually succeeding since then), is entirely different from being asked to put the labels on the boxes, in the trucks, to the other boxes, and still fucking it up.

They just want to feel oppressed.

Shit goes wrong because they have minimal accountability, leagues of bureaucracy, and are complacent. You only worsen those problems by throwing money at them, and nobody is guaranteed or entitled to a job.

So don't hold nations that different to the same standards.

None of the details about the actual killing were disputed. As I've said before, it was a bad kill. But the EMTs cannot take control of a suspect from police, especially as Floyd was not compliant nor in a safe and stable mental state.

You don't give more resources to an entity that can't manage itself unless you only want them to take more and more for no improvement. If they are any good at those jobs they'll do fine in the private sector. If they aren't, they now have the opportunity to find a better fit.

Yes, I just outlined when and under what conditions, by NREMT standards. MEDCOM has different ones, as does Portland or Atlanta.

First rule: You can't help anyone if you're wounded, dead, a hostage, or otherwise in the line of fire.

As far as the civilian side of my training goes, the police deal with their suspect until they are satisfied that they are detained and neutralized, at which point they give us the all clear to treat them.
The only time we would restrain a potentially dangerous patient is if we already had taken them under our care, and/or the police weren't already on scene. If the patient is already violent and posing a risk while unrestrained and out of our control, we wait for the police.

I don't care to hear what a foreign system would have done when the topic is what our system did do. Saying "We do *** in ***" contributes nothing, particularly when it is being dressed up as a qualification, and it ain't their house having the argument.

If they could even do that right, I'd be kinder.