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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Postal Service to reduce workforce by 10,000 in 2015 [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)That it is MUCH more efficient than ANY privatized nation-wide mail/package delivery system.
Sickeningly "our Congress" Keeps pushing it into bankruptcy so it can be privatized. That way all of them and their owners can realize huge profits. Of course this will result in price-fixing and probably a monopolization of delivery services. Even paying their employees shit wages, they cannot compete with the USPS. Of course they are not required "by LAW" to fund their retirement benefits for 75 years in advance. Probably most of them do not have retirement benefits except for their over-paid executives. This is just another plan to rip-off the extremely under-paid average Americans who depend on this still (despite congressional efforts) affordable service.
I am psyched that so far both Senator Sanders and Robert Reich have announced their willingness to seek the office of POTUS in 2016.
I KNOW that POTUS is not the one fucking with the USPS but I also know the power that office and its "bully pulpit" wield.
That power has the potential to completely change the current "all for money" attitude of Americans and their greed driven "leaders."
I desperately hope that if we survive another 2 years, Americans will elect a POTUS, not of the corporate persuasion and change this heinous, current paradigm. Fuck Party, FDR, etc, would not recognize "our" party anyway.