The Administration's Official Response to Saving the Post Office is total B.S.

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Administration-s-Offic-by-Scott-Baker-Banking_Economic_Financial_Government-130928-335.html



The Administration's Official Response to Saving the Post Office is total B.S.
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/28/2013 at 04:35:26
By Scott Baker

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The official White House response to this petition is total B.S.

It is the prefunding requirement that is responsible for over 80% of the budget shortfall.

In contrast, the cost-cutting suggestions made by Dana Hyde of the OMB would result in a diminution of services that would make the Post Office less competitive over time and lead to its marginalization and maybe elimination, along with nearly a million jobs it provides. Dana Hyde does not even address the issue of the 75-year healthcare pre-funding agreement - which no other private or public agency has to do - which people who have actually fought to save the Post Office, from the petition-writer to Senator Bernie Sanders have publicly recognized as the primary cause of the Post Offices' difficulties. She doesn't address real possibilities for reform, like issuing bonds, providing banking for the unbanked, or providing state licenses from Post Office, that would expand services instead of contracting them by, as she suggest, reducing service to just 5 days a week.

Unfortunately, this kind of cost-cutting, middle class service robbing response, is typical of Obama's neo-conservative Office of Management and Budget.

[westerebus]

1. The executive director of Partnership for a Secure America?

Former Clinton Cabinet adviser? 9-11 Commission? Jack Lew's State department?

That Dana Hyde?

[Fuddnik]

2. This is getting sickening.

We need a General Strike in this country, and we need it bad.

Things only get worse with Republicans, and they never get better with Dems.

This neo-liberal shit has got to cease.

[bread_and_roses]

4. Amen, Brother! (n/t)

[Scuba]

3. Banking and Broadband: the bright future of the USPS.

If only we had a President who governed from somewhere closer to the center.



Thanks to DUer RC for this great graphic.