Later On

The private businesses of the US are eager to take over government services and start making profits from them (thus driving up the cost of the service, but it does reduce our taxes, which seems to be the current goal of much of the country: disband the government and thus you don’t have to pay for it—you can just pay private companies more for the same services—well, less services: any part of the service that doesn’t turn a profit is discontinued).

I am very sorry to see our country abandon the postal service. It’s obviously not necessary: raising rates for bulk mail and providing more Federal support (it is a government service, like roads, schools, and libraries) would readily keep it going. The total USPS budget is under $80 billion—around $76 billion. The total US military budget is $687 billion. I would think we can readily cut the military’s grotesquely inflated budget to find the additional $5-10 billion to keep the USPS humming, especially if the rates on bulk mail are increased. After all, we’ve defeated al Qaeda, we’re told (though in the next breath we’re told that they continue to threaten the very existence of the US), and we are officially at war currently only with Afghanistan, and we should be leaving there soon, thanks to our proclivity for killing civilians left and right: few countries cotton to foreigners coming in and killing their children and innocent adults. It’s always a mistake, of course, except when it’s not.

Here’s a report on this latest effort to degrade the quality of daily life in order to enrich the wealthy even more.