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In reply to the discussion: Republicans Seek to End the U.S. Postal Service [View all]zentrum
(9,870 posts)12. In the same way Reagan
...fired the air traffic controllers as a way to end all unions, so this is the first move in destroying all public services. If it happens, then all prisons will be private and run for profit, all schools will be private, all hospitals, all bridges, streets, parks and libraries will be privately owned. It's a nightmare, corporate/fascist scenario. This is no exaggeration. It will take them time but closing the post office lays down the template for the complete private ownership of every aspect of civic life.
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Baggers believe that postal employees are making secret markers on their rural mailboxes so that the
freshwest
Nov 2012
#14
And the persons working delivering the card will not have pension/retirement health care benefits
lunasun
Nov 2012
#40
why do you say party and not parties? "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the
robinlynne
Nov 2012
#18
The Post Office needs to be given wide and liberal authority to conduct competitive business to
grantcart
Nov 2012
#20
& Republicans despise an agency that outcompetes corporate sleazebags that dump healthcare costs on
Faryn Balyncd
Nov 2012
#23
The Postal Service is not JUST pre-funding retirement benefits for employees who haven't been hired
jmowreader
Nov 2012
#22
This is just another reason to believe that Republicans want to destroy our democracy.
The Wielding Truth
Nov 2012
#24
The post office is being made to fund health care for the unborn grand children..
Historic NY
Nov 2012
#28