Trump and the GOP Want to Kill the Post Office
Really? Kill the USPS? Freakin’ idiotic. Photo by Erik S Lesser
It is a meeting of tiny minds.
The GOP has been wanting to kill the USPS for years (it is the biggest government employee union) and Trump wants to do everything possible to undermine an election he will most likely lose and carry on his petty (I mean really petty) feud with Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Two stupid and evil purposes have met, shook hands, and become one.
And America will pay for it with the destruction and probably selling off of one of the most valuable and useful government agencies. We can only hope we have the time to slow and stop them.
But, really… why? How? You say the United State Postal Service is near bankrupt, it must be poorly run! Yes, but no.
A long time ago, but in the some saner pre-covid days of 2006 (remember a time before the pandemic? Yeah, good times…) the GOP-controlled congress passed a little thing called “The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) and it was quickly signed into law by George W. Bush on December 20, 2006. Just in time for Christmas! What this little beauty of an act did, was give the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits. In the good ‘ol, wild west days, USPS funded those pensions on a pay-as-you-go-basis, pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees' costs came in. Like just about every other business in the free world. But the new Act now required the USPS to figure out all pension costs needing to be pass over the next 75 years, and then come up with all that 75 years of pension money between 2007 and 2016 to fund them. Basically, when they hired someone, the PO have to then fund their possible retirement. And that of all the other employees.
No other business is forced to do something this stupid, trying up billions of dollars, forcing them to de-invest in the business and put that money in the pension fund. They went from being in the black in 2005, to being billions in the red in just a couple years. This is insanity. Purposeful insanity, purposeful sabotage.
Why? Like I said, the PO has one of the biggest, and most powerful, government unions, and the GOP has a thing about unions; they hate them, every one of them. They want to destroy them all, burn them to the ground, and salt the earth afterward. All it took was to get a Republican President who wanted to see the PO destroyed (again, for petty, tiny penis reasons) to meet up with a GOP senate who also wants to see it destroyed. These two kissing cousins will now work to complete their job of killing something nearly every American relies on every day.
These fools can literally not be gone soon enough.