The job of a shaped charge is to cut steel H-beams. "The way we do this is by cutting the beam at an angle which through a series of beams cut at the same angle will tend to make the building shift over and 'walk'"
In 2006 the Republican plan to privatize the US Post Office went into effect. They passed a law that the Post Office must set aside $5 Billion the first of each year in escrow for future health benefits, thus each year the post office ends BROKE by about $3 Billion, while actually making a $2 Billion profit.