US Postal Service Mulls Service Cut-backs

[Lord Umbarger]

At a time when the US for what ever pet reason you support, is knee deep in debt and can't afford to keep the mail running, something that we have pretty much always done, Obama feels that there is still enough cash in the coffers to dish out a HealthCare program with a price tag the length of a Russian novel.

Contrary to what the Socialist like to babble on and on about, the War in Iraq and Afganistan combined are expected to cost approximately 200 billion...less than 10% of the over all budget. 19% of the overall Federal budget is earmarked for the military and all of it's activities, less than the biggest tax dollar eater, Social Security/Public Health, which eats a whopping 21% of the budget. (This figure is PRE-ObamaCare).

So, at a time that we can't even afford to keep the Post Office trucks running six days a week, does it really make sense to force feed a HealthCare system that no one wants, designed in a manner that immitates every failed system ever tried, loosely styled after a plan that even in it's best form, hardly works?

No matter which side of the fence you're on with the political parties, Rep, Dem, Conservative or Communist, you flat out have to agree that this is just not a good time to go test driving a system that has never worked anywhere. Seriously, worst case scenario, if it makes things worse once it's on the books, how long do you think it'll be before it gets taken off? How many times in history has any government ever given up any amount of control over anything simply because the program kills it's own citizens? Even if the US Gov were responcive enough to strike ObamaCare the day after it's put in place, how many people are going to die in the mean time that would have lived other wise?

ObamaCare is loosely based on every failed Public health program that has ever been tried. The current model is totally untested and un-suported, even by many on the Left, and no one knows how much it'll cost other than just "insert explicative here!" .

March 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, should consider cutting delivery to as few as three days a week as the agency attempts to pare costs, a consulting firm said.

Those cuts are among changes McKinsey & Co. presented in a report this week at a postal conference in Washington. Options also included expanding business lines and restructuring retiree health benefits.

The Postal Service, projecting mail volume will drop 15 percent in the next decade as consumers switch to electronic communications, is pressing Congress to change a law requiring delivery six days a week and limiting post-office closings. A request by the service to trim delivery by one day, to five days a week, has met resistance from lawmakers.

Might be here, might not... depends on rather the mail runs today...HERE!

[ninjadude]

You post an article about the Postal service - an quasi independent company that is not controlled by the federal government - and then spout lies and false information about health care reform. I don't get it. The USPS can do what it wants. It is mostly funded by itself. Health Care Reform IS what most Americans want before the insurance companies completely destroy American life. And it is funded by an excise tax on those plans that are considered "cadillac" that mostly those who are "rich" for lack of a better word, use. If you have such a plan, I'm sorry, but you'll be paying more. IF not, then you should be supporting something that will benefit you and the rest of us in the end.

Edited March 10, 2010 by ninjadude

[AztecInca]

Lord this post is getting dangerously close to agenda-posting, this news article has absolutley nothing to do with Obama's proposed healthcare reform. If you wish to discuss that issue get involved in one of the numerous topics that already exist, or create one yourself.

I will leave this thread open as some members may actually be interested in discussing the problems facing the US postal service, but everyone plese keep to the topic at hand, and that is not healthcare reform.