The GOP Is Silent While Trump Trashes Amazon And Free Market Principles

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Trump made no secret of his intense loathing and jealousy of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, in his hate-filled 2016 campaign rallies. Most folks thought those were just idle threats made by a ranting lunatic. Most folks didn't think the forces of Heaven and Earth would put this man in power.

Trump wants his base to believe that the USPS's relationship with Amazon is just an unholy alliance that exclusively benefits Bezos over the already crippled US Postal Service. The ethically dubious Donald Trump is suddenly against the monopolistic tendencies of unrestrained capitalism? Likely story. This is obviously personal.


https://crooksandliars.com/2018/05/trump-trashes-amazon-bezos-and-free-market

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1. Let Amazon go over to FedEx or UPS exclusively and then watch how many jobs the USPS has to cut

Then hang those lost jobs directly on trump's head.

This is all aside from the fact that letting a government official use his position to fight a personal grudge is very unethical and (probably) illegal.

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3. Think about what would happen if this did happen.

The Lobbyist's for Fed-Ex and UPS have wanted this scenario to happen for a couple of decades. The GOP has wanted to privatize the Postal Service since Nixon.

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2. Least we forget

The USPS has to fund their pension system in advance to 75 years.