The GOP Has Every Reason to Want the US Postal Service to Fail

[Galraedia]

Donald Trump is once again attacking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

During a recent press briefing, Trump claimed that the agency loses money every time it delivers a package for Amazon and that if it just raised its prices, USPS would be more profitable.

However, the postal service is not meant to be a profitable enterprise. It is a government service meant to unite our country by allowing the delivery of goods and information. Like many other services provided by the government, such as schools, a national postal service is not a business and should not be run as such. It is an integral agency that benefits our society and our nation would not be able to function without it. It’s actually so important that it’s protected in Article I of the Constitution.

Trump’s insistence on a national postal service motivated by profit reveals the conservative mentality at its core. In this ideological framework, everything must operate at a profit or it’s a useless enterprise. However, it’s still worth asking ourselves: Why are Republicans attacking the post office at this specific time?

Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/the-gop-has-every-reason-to-want-the-us-postal-service-to-fail/

[maxsolomon]

1. The GOP laid this trap in 2006.

Pre-fund $110 billion worth of the next 75 years of Retiree health care.

Now, they blithely lie about their central role in the problem. Per usual.

[abqtommy]

6. That's right. reTHUGS vs USPS, food stamps, ACA, Social Security Retirement/Disability,

Medicaid and Medicare is nothing new, it's just that some people haven't been paying attention. We
gotta take down these clowns.

[Joinfortmill]

2. To phuck up the election in November

[pwb]

3. I waited to do my census by mail.

I got 4 offers in the mail to do it on line fast first then the form came and was returned. So 6 first class pieces of mail created by me because i love the Postal Service.. In all the census forms I have filled out this one felt yucky to me.

[Chainfire]

4. I think that, by the same logic, the military should also be run like a business

All of those planes, tanks, soldiers, and sailors should be out there taking stuff to justify their existence. If you aren't going to use them, why have them? Perhaps they should take the Chinese industrial areas, now that would be turning a profit, big time.

[Blue Owl]

5. Solely for their own evil reasons

Fuck 'em.

[brush]

7. Repugs may want it to fail but it's too widely used by FEDEX, UPS and Amazon...

for it to be allowed to go under. Those corps will put pressure on trump, et al to fund it.

Plus, the PO failing just before the election would be viewer as another turmp failure on top of the virus and the economy failures.