From Democracy Now : For months, Americans have heard dire warnings about the impending collapse of the United States Postal Service due to fiscal insolvency. As Republicans push to privatize the post office, the agency is now bracing for its first-ever default today. Unlike every other governmental agency, the Postal Service is required to fund 75 years of retiree health benefits over just a 10-year span. We discuss the fight over the Postal Service with Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Chuck Zlatkin of the New York Metro Area Postal Union. “The American people have to wake up here about what’s happening with the Postal Service,” Kucinich says. “The whole concept of the Postal Service, embedded in that is the idea of universal service, that if you’re poor, you live in a rural area, you’re going to get served just like someone who lives in a city and who may be wealthy.”
As U.S. Postal Service Faces Default, Critics See Manufactured Crisis to Speed Up Privatization
tell it like it is wingman.
If you believe anything that comes out of PMG Donahoe’s or Darrell Issa’s mouth, I think I’ve got some beachfront property I’d like to sell ya! Anyone who doesn’t think this whole thing has been manufactured and orchestrated by the ‘powers that be,’ needs to take a reality check. It’s an ‘us and them’ atmosphere in the country these days. The regular American citizen against the rich and wealthy politicians.
P.S. And I think it’s hilarious to hear the president (Obama) talking about how rich Romney is, when he himself is rich too! Get real! EVERYBODY in Washington is rich and they got that way off the American public.
Privatize????? Please people you are watching something from a left wing news show. Also, the Postal Unions are some of the strongest in the nation???? Are you kidding me?????? If they are they are then why are we some of the lowest paid unionized workers in the country??? Telephone, garbage men, auto workers, all make much more than we do but the unions keep telling us how vital we are to the economy and country. If we are so vital, why are we paid less than UPS or FEDEX??? If you honestly believe that we are vital and that closing small offices and going to 5 day delivery will plunge us into an economic tailspin then boy, you are living in some Disneyland
Rich people control poor people since the earth have human being. Must be born to be rich. lol…….
Wingman, that is the PLAN, MAN! They want to get rid of the middleclass so the masses are more ‘controlable!’ This is all the plan and has been the plan. Issa…can’t say what I really want to about him, but remember Robert Kennedy, President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr? He should join their ranks, let me put it like that! So where are we to go? What are we to do?
The fact remains that the people in power (Donahoe, Congress, President, Vice President, etc.) are going to do what they are going to do. And what they AREN’T going to do is address the issue at hand. Planned conspiracy against the post office? Yup. For sure. All these yahoos thing they are so ‘smart’ and that no one is going to notice or know what they are up to…duh! They had some miscalculations there! I say there’s going to be anarchy before it is all over. As those in power keep crapping on the masses that pay to keep them there…ANARCHY!!!!!!!! The all appear to be traitors. And what did they do to Benedict Arnold? Just sayin’…
close IPDC sell the property to Chick-Fil-A! We need more chicken!
So true wingman! Especially your last paragraph regarding revolt. It can and will happen down the line unless unions were allowed to remain. We are becoming just like most of Europe where there is no longer any middle class. We are dealing with a powder keg here and it’s only going to take that last spark, in this case the privatization of the Post Office, to set it off. Then, there will be no turning back.
F U ISSA
and all your cronies
Privatization would be a disaster not just for the Postal Service and its employees, but for organized labor and the good influence it has, or had on the job welfare of all workers whether they want to admit it or not.
Republicans are always anti-government unless it’s theirs, and anti-regulation because they want to run amok with no regard to laws, environment, worker safety or job security or anything else. They will not act humane unless they are forced to.
The unions that represent the Postal Service are some of the strongest that’s left in this country. Only about 8% of workers are unionized now, and the sharks in the GOP smell blood.
No unions? Kiss your OSHA goodbye. Kiss paid vacation, eight hour days, protection from corporate abuse, decent pay and benefits goodbye. If the Republicans have their way, no working American except for the ultra rich will have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out. They don’t understand that wiping out the earning power in this country will eventually kill them, too.
The country would have to revolt, violently should the middle class disappear. Today the Postal Service, tomorrow, you. Think twice about wishing for privatization or death of organized labor.
If they privatize, they will get rid of everyone then rehire for minimum wage. They will then give less than 30 hrs a week so they don’t have to provide benefits.
i believe if we privatize, then that would be the death of the postal unions and without the unions how would we organize a postal strike? just asking?
If they privatize the post office, then we could strike like UPS and FedEx, since no longer be government employees. If that happens, the country would be at a stand still and LARGE crisis would occur all to thanks of the Republicans wanting to private from the common man rather the corporates high rollars.
we will all be screwed by the rich.
How many other post offices are they forcing clerks and maintenance workers to become letter carriers. How many PSE’s are being hired to replace those full time career employees with benefits. Theres your big money saver…..PSE employee, no benefits and no guarantee of how many hours of work you will get for the week…….Walmart employee has better chance of earning a paycheck for the week!
Well, privatization is good thing for the USPS to get rid of those bureaucratic management and serve better to American. Nowaday we are going green to save trees, encourage people who live at rural to use e-communicate.
Don’t forget pmg has 30+years of service and can retire anytime while he’s working to cut jobs for hard working postal workers. Issa has over a half a billion dollars that he managed to earn from an automobile alarm he invented after stealing cars himself. Issa knows how to get Order out of Chaos, and wants to get rid of postal workers. How much money do you need pmg, Issa? These people are really sick individuals. Where are the John Brown and The Nat Turner kind of Americans when we need them?
Don’t forget pmg has30+years of service and can retire anytime while he’s working to cut jobs for hard working postal workers. Issa has over a half a billion dollars that he managed to earn from an automobile alarm he invented after stilling cars himself. Issa knows how to get Order out of Chaos, and wants to get rid of postal workers. How much money do you need pmg, Issa? These people are really sick individuals. Where are the John Brown and The Nat Turner kind of Americans when we need them?
Downsizing and Early outs are the answer,but the moraniac individuals in charge are not offering it.Instead there salaries are topping $800,000 (pmg and his buddies).