Debating a proposal to privatize the post office,

[lonestarnot]

5:55 pm ET C-Span.

[HopeHoops]

1. That would require a Constitutional Amendment (no chance of that happening)

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads". They would have to amend the Constitution to convert it to a private entity. Fuck off rMoney.

It just isn't going to happen. The problem is that Congress imposed the burden of pension extension on the USPS (something no private shipper has to deal with) and THAT'S why they are in financial trouble. Prior to that they always ran a surplus. When a private company will come up with a deal where they'll take an envelope from my house in PA to HI for forty-five cents, I'll consider changing my mind on the issue. That isn't going to happen either. Priority mail is the cheapest and safest way to ship anything shy of seventy pounds. More than that, you need UPS.

Congress has no power to privatize the USPS. See paragraph one of the body of this text. That's directly out of the Constitution.

On Edit:

[lonestarnot]

2. It's on now. Someone name R Richard Geddes Cornell University American Enterprise Institute private

pusher.

[HopeHoops]

3. It can't happen. It's a distraction from rMoney's problems and nothing more.

On Edit: To clarify, they can't get 60 votes in the Senate and they can't get 2/3 of the states to ratify it. It's a distraction issue and they know it. The US government is bound by the Constitution to keep the USPS alive, but the GOP has been caving to the corporate bastards for so long now that I'm not sure I know what kind of diapers I was wearing when they were well into it (but I think they were cloth).

[lonestarnot]

4. They are sure drooling over it.

[HopeHoops]

5. I'd like for one of the GOP asswipes to actually READ THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION!

I've got two copies of it within arms' reach. They've got no clue what it says, or what it means for that matter.

[lonestarnot]

6. He knows who has control over that apparently, but still discussing all the real property assets and

equipment housed in the facilities and its value. Asshat fuckwad!

[HopeHoops]

8. As for the 2nd, that's what ARMORIES were established for.

He doesn't have a fucking clue about history, and rMoney doesn't care. All they want is power. Fuck that noise.

[lonestarnot]

7. Caller giving him the bidness now. I'd like to slap the smile off that fucker's face.

[HopeHoops]

9. I'd just moon him - like full truck-nutz moon stuff. "TEABAG THIS, FUCKER!"

[madinmaryland]

10. You don't recall that the Constitution was shredded during the * misadministration??

What constitution???

[HopeHoops]

12. You know, that flimsy piece of paper with the John Hancock on it.

Not that Republicans would know what that was.

[lonestarnot]

13. "Just a goddamn piece of paper." GWB Bushitler

[HopeHoops]

14. The shrub can't read.

[madinmaryland]

15. Uhmm. He was able to read the words on a bottle of Jack Daniels. nt

[HopeHoops]

17. From the inside.

[madinmaryland]

19. Even more impressive!!

[fusilier0770]

16. Throw the Paultards and other "strict Constitutionalists" in that group as well

I have found the biggest loudmouths when it comes to spouting off about what the Constitution actually says are the ones with the least inkling of what it actually contains. To continue to be blissfully, if not criminally, ignorant is to let some squeaky voiced old baby doctor tell you that the reason the Founding Fathers got together was because the Articles of Confederation were not libertarian enough, hence the Constitution.

[HopeHoops]

18. Buy them a copy. Amazon has them for about 7 bucks.

[madinmaryland]

20. Welcome to DU!! BTW, the word "tard" is not used here. The preferred phrases are...

Paulturds or Paulbots.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. There is no company, nor combination of companies, that could come close to doing

what the USPS does. We would have to simply give these welfare queens hundreds of billions of free dollars so that they could charge us $5 to mail a letter.

Another manufactured crisis to bring in the rubes.

[lonestarnot]

21. Can you imagine how fucked up the mail would be if they manage to steal it?

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. Yes. We have several models of the clusterfuck these parasites would create. n/t

[lonestarnot]

23. Yet bunches of postal workers will still vote for taxivader.

[Egalitarian Thug]

24. Indeed they will. I'm not sure it's a majority, but at the very least it's close to half.

And since I do a lot of work for the government I can attest to a similar situation in the SSA and, BLM as well as the USPS.

[lonestarnot]

25. Ignoranuses!