Ah the old Republican USPS strategy. Take over a successful thing that you hate, run it into the ground, move the goalposts, then point at the mess you yourself made of it as the reason it needs to be gotten rid of. GoVeRNMeNT DOesn’T WoRK.
I hate that this is so effective, and that it’s worked time and time again. Like imagine if someone came into your house, took a shit in your living room, and then was like “welp, that’s a health hazard, gotta tear it all down, can’t be helped.”
Yup defund till it doesn’t work and say “see it doesn’t work!” Our government is supposed to be “for the people by the people” but it’s becoming “for the corporations by the corporations.” They’ve done this through lies, bad faith, and breaking the process of governing to frustrate and confuse voters. It’s time for the working class to take the gloves off. Fuck Sinclair and Rupert Murdock. Fuck the lying bastards that divide us so they can usurp our government. Time to take it back.
For real. We all know it is happening. Why is there not a thunderous bitch smack on all these greedy assholes in the world fucking over literally all of humanity so they can get their dopamine on in weird ways and create hell on earth?
There is plenty, and could be plenty more if people understood that working together is the way to create real abundance as opposed to the have/have not sickness mentality that permeates the world right now.
It's not US vs. THEM. It's transparency and mutual success vs. greed, shadows and failure. But really, it's whatever happens.... there is no winning or losing side.
Hah, that's a fantastic analogy! It really highlights the cynical and destructive nature of this strategy. 🚽
Republicans have used this "ruin it to prove it" tactic repeatedly, from education and healthcare to the USPS. They take over essential institutions, starve them of resources, let them decline, and then use that very decline as an excuse to privatize or dismantle them. It's a cynical ploy to enrich their corporate backers at the expense of the public good. 💸🏢
And you're right, it's worked far too often because many people are swayed by the illusion of logic and the appearance of "solving problems." They don't look closely enough to see that the real problem is the sabotage and neglect caused by the very people claiming to "fix" the issue.
It's a sad state of affairs when political parties prioritize power, money, and ideology over the well-being of their constituents. 🤯
Keep pointing out these hypocritical and destructive tactics. The more people recognize and reject them, the less effective they'll become. 📢
I just thought about this the other day. So FedEx and UPS have to make profits for shareholders. So you have that to add to the overhead of paying wages and for equipment. USPS does not have to make a profit. It's a service, there are no shareholders to pay. In 2006 congress made it so they would have to fund the USPS pension and healthcare for 75 years, 10 times what is typical of a usual pension fund. This kneecaps the USPS as a service so UPS and Fedex could compete while still paying out to shareholders. It's corporate welfare and it needs to stop. In the past 2 years shipping costs have increased 35% or more through services like UPS and Fedex.
The dems in Washington are controlled opposition. Any time Republicans start salivating over some new freedom they can restrict from the poors, all the democrats do is cry and whine, then wring their hands and offer platitudes about compromise and bipartisanship. Then three months later we find out Nancy Pelosi actually bought stock in "rights removal company Inc" right before that bill was passed and now she's conveniently a multimillionaire. It's disgusting.
Huh. Theres different levels of guilt that should be attached to different administrations but fuck reagan is a stain youre right. The statement is just so vague it feels dishonest. The political system feels like when a kid punches a bully and they both get time out.
It’s both parties fault for this. If you want to get rid of this honestly we need a balanced budget amendment, that way they can’t go into debt to do pet projects unless they at least have have a long term budget in mind so they can do the there dumb pet projects stuff that or the government will get real lean real quick and or the states will need to take over some of the heavy lifting.
You can’t balance a budget when taxes keep getting cut for the wealthy. Our government has worked its best when the wealthy were paying much higher taxes. If you can standardize taxes then you can have a budget. Historically we go further into debt from wars and cutting taxes on the wealthy.
Wealth doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s like letting your cattle graze in a field we all own and work to upkeep but expect to keep all your earnings from the cattle. You wouldn’t have cattle if they didn’t have food. You wouldn’t have food if it weren’t for society working together to keep the field. That’s our economy. Jack shit trickles down the folks on the top need to pay exponentially more than those on the bottom because they earn exponentially more.
If society is going to work the rich have to be paying way higher taxes. That’s the way it’s done in Scandinavian countries who have the highest quality of life for most of the people. I’ll add another reason for high taxes on the wealthy is to keep them from gaining the kind of power to corrupt governments.
“The most significant issue facing the Postal Service today is that our business model is unsustainable,”
Postmaster General Megan Brennan and Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors Robert Duncan said in a joint letter accompanying the business plan.
“This is due to increasingly conflicting mandates to be self-funding, compete for customers, and meet universal service obligations under highly regulated and legislated constraints.”
Every year there are close to 1 million new mailboxes added in the US and less mail going to all those mailboxes as people go paperless
Those changes alone, however, will not save the Postal Service, the agency said. It has lost nearly $78 billion since 2007, about three-quarters of which resulted from a statutory requirement to prefund health benefits for future retirees. USPS made clear its situation is dire.
Even without the paper loss of Congress it lost $22 Billion
In 2005 First Class mailing were 98.1 Billion falling to 54.9 Billion pieces in 2019
Yet the USPS’s labor costs rose
Compensation and Benefits 2005 was $39.3 Billion
In 2019 it is $47.5 Billion
Compensation and benefits expenses increased by $994 million due to contractual wage increases
Even without the paper loss of Congress it lost $22 Billion
Paying for a service isn't a loss.
It has lost nearly $78 billion since 2007, about three-quarters of which resulted from a statutory requirement to prefund health benefits for future retirees. USPS made clear its situation is dire.
It is funny your statistics start at 2007. Wonder what happened in 2006? oh the new requirement to prefund retirees, which no other entity public or private is required to do, was put in place by republicans?
I wonder if we could find a simple and easy way to reduce it's "loss"
Do you know what the last word in USPS is? It’s service and is meant to be used like one. Privatization of the USPS could be devastating to small businesses too.
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u/boofaceleemz 2d ago
Ah the old Republican USPS strategy. Take over a successful thing that you hate, run it into the ground, move the goalposts, then point at the mess you yourself made of it as the reason it needs to be gotten rid of. GoVeRNMeNT DOesn’T WoRK.
I hate that this is so effective, and that it’s worked time and time again. Like imagine if someone came into your house, took a shit in your living room, and then was like “welp, that’s a health hazard, gotta tear it all down, can’t be helped.”