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As we are learning, a good part of Team Red spends time in the swamp.
Well, yeah.
Which begs the question - why doesn't Trump go "all in" on Republican/Conservative causes?
He refused to scrap Obamacare...only put a few holes in it (most notably allowing states the option to adopt a work-for-Medicaid program).
He refused to abolish the Dept of Ed. even though Ronnie promised it 40 years ago. Instead, he reduced spending by perhaps $5 billion (still at $60 billion total).
He refuses to abolish the Post Office (and contrary to popular belief the Constitution doesn't mandate that Sammy run a postal service...it only gives it the right to do so if it wishes) but instead wants to poke holes in services and put a flunky in charge to run a shell game.
He refuses to abolish the FDA and...what is it now? Blames Deep State Lizard People for delaying a vaccine? This despite the fact it's his own appointee running the show over there.
Team Red had the Oval Office and both chambers from 2017-19. Show me the results? Instead, the D of E lives on. The FDA lives on. USPS lives on. Obamacare lives on.
Then what happens when Team Blue gets the Oval office back in a few months, in 4 years, or 8 years? They just fatten those entities back up. That's what.
USPS can't make adequate business decisions BECAUSE OF CONGRESS. Republican interference has ruined it. Unlike all other businesses, the USPS is forced to pre-fund its pension, and it can't close down unprofitable locations because of the Constitution. It's not quite apples to apples.
Pre-funding those pensions is on Baby Bush's resume.
Once again, another Team Redder embracing his inner-Marx.
I think we could reduce the federal government by about 99% with no adverse affect. Most of the "services" provided should have nothing to do with the federal government.
Well the Founding Fathers reference the Postal Service and made it a GOVERNMENT SERVICE as it was as if a right of - We The People.
From the Link.
- The US Constitution mentions post offices, it would take a constitutional amendment to eliminate or privatize the USPS. Today we have the flip side of that myth - the belief that the US Postal Service isn’t part of the federal government by some.
- Most of the quasi-confusion of the Postal Service can be traced back to the - 1971 Postal Reorganization Act, which eliminated the old Post Office Department, replacing it with the US Postal Service.
- The act was intended to make the USPS self-financing from its own revenues, and to make it an independent, non-political public service.
- Prior to the PRA, postmasters (including the postmaster general) were political appointees; rates were set by Congress, and the POD had to go through the appropriations process to get the money it needed to operate.
- What it didn’t do was privatize the postal service in any way, shape or form as some believed. Some in Congress, then as now, would have favored privatization. Consideration was also given to making the USPS a government owned corporation, like the TVA or Amtrak. But neither of those things happened in 1971 thru today.
Here’s what the Act says:
"The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States". It also defines the USPS as "an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States".
- Being "independent" doesn’t make the USPS a "quasi" - anything- it simply means it is not part of one of the cabinet departments. Other "independent" agencies include the CIA and NASA.
***Just making sure people know IT IS NOT TO BE POLITICALIZE FOR GAIN OR RIGGED FOR LOSS. This BEING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR and only a few months away IS NO TIME TO CUT SORTERS , EVEN MAIL BOXES.... AND OVERTIME AND ANY CUTS WITH ALL THE MAIL IN BALLOTS COMING. Do it next year..... Heck Black Friday and Christmas is coming too.
USPS can't make adequate business decisions BECAUSE OF CONGRESS. Republican interference has ruined it. Unlike all other businesses, the USPS is forced to pre-fund its pension, and it can't close down unprofitable locations because of the Constitution. It's not quite apples to apples.
Eliminate the pension, pay people out of it, and end it. Put them on SS like the rest of us.
That is because a human being goes to every house in the country.
Get real please.
With 200,000 fewer people than the USPS was at peak strength. With an increase in the number of individual houses and apartment units each receiving fewer letters than the smaller generations of the past. And an additional parcel takes more time to handle than 10 additional letters.
The increasing difficulty in recruiting and keeping temporary casual employees for more than a few days, along with the effort to cut the number of benefit receiving employees to the absolute minimum has left no option but to increase reliance on forcing overtime on the remaining workers for basic operations
Eliminate the pension, pay people out of it, and end it. Put them on SS like the rest of us.
For the most part, the vast majority of the Postal work force is already under SS. Only a small number are still under the CSRS. USPS along with all of the other Federal agencies switched over to all new employees under SS in 1984. And NOOOOOOOO we don't get free health care either. Pull your head out of your rectum and do a little research.
Eliminate the pension, pay people out of it, and end it. Put them on SS like the rest of us.
Baby Bush made that impossible.
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