As the insidious Herpetis stupidus
virus slowly spreads through the populace, creating severe mental deterioration
in its wake, more and more citizens are ignoring the death of the United States
Post Office. In a greedy effort to
gradually bankrupt and eventually privatize the Postal Service, Republican
legislators have been given huge political donations by UPS, FedEx and other
private postal services. The intent
behind the contributions is to undermine a Constitutionally mandated public
postal service and, as such, represents a deliberate attempt to violate
American citizens' civil rights! Why
liberal broadcasters and magazines are only now recognizing these facts
is not only shocking, but disgusting!
Where the heck is the media when we need them? Where the hell is the "Justice" Department
and its slimy Attorney General as Republicans steal seventy five years of
prefunded fairytale future medical coverage from post office funds and "lend"
it to the U.S. Treasury, planning never to repay the bogus loan?
Wake up dunderheads!
Pretending to be stupid, even before being infected by H stupidus,
not only makes us more susceptible to the ravages of the virus (which makes
macaroni out of brain cells), but insures that our already miserably educated
children will never have any hope of a future.
The current Republican plan represents a massive takeover and ownership
of virtually all agencies of government by private entities. This has always led to disaster, from failed
airport security to the enormous waste of taxpayers' money for Blackwater International
and hundreds of thousands other absurdly over paid carpetbaggers in recent
Middle Eastern conflicts. The practical
truth, understood so well, ironically, by the late President Richard Nixon, is
that if federal agencies can be owned by the government and overseen by
competent salaried private business entities, they can be run extremely
efficiently.
Meanwhile, Tea Party members, many with an honest
criticism of "Big Government" and a legitimate concern with shrinking the waste
and increasing the effectiveness of the federal bureaucracy, have been seduced
by the mainstream Republican scheme to privatize as much of the federal
government as possible. The problem lies
in the huge difference between the goals of "legitimate" Tea Party members and
classical Republican opportunists. The
opportunists fully understand that any agency taken out of the government and
privatized, will cost citizens anywhere from two to ten times as much as it
would cost if the government could run it efficiently. Removing many of the decisions currently in
the hands of both Republican and Democratic Congressional prostitutes,
decisions based on political donations, and placing them in the hands of
salaried private professional administrators could easily save hundreds
of billions of dollars every year.
To illustrate this point, consider the U.S. Postal
Service. Supported entirely by postage,
it has not cost taxpayers a cent since the Nixon administration. In 2006, in an effort to eventually bankrupt
it, lame duck Republicans voted to force the service to provide seventy five
years worth of medical insurance, that is for members they assumed would never
exist and never utilize those benefits.
The money was to be raised in ten short years and "lent" to the
treasury, thus creating a huge Post Office deficit for the first time in
history. Meanwhile, one might be
surprised to find that as much as thirty percent of the mail found in a typical
mail truck might belong to UPS, FedEx or a host of other private carriers! You see, it is cheaper for them to use the
U.S. Postal Service thereby pocketing more than half of what they were paid by
the poor unsuspecting customer. If they
use our Post Office to send a package or letter to a remote rural area, the
private carrier can pocket an even larger profit. Ironically, the private company might never
ship anything to some areas using its own vehicles!
Consider that the same 2006 lame duck Republican
Congress sent Congressional concubines Tom Delay and Billy Tauzin to the
Pharmaceutical lobby to ask them to author Medicare Part D. Since that time, Part D has cost seniors well
over a hundred billion dollars in overpayments due to illicit and
unconstitutional price fixing. If
private insurance companies were hired to oversee, but not own Medicare
contracts and bonused for legitimate efficiency, not only would fair prices be
negotiated, but out of pocket costs to previously cheated seniors would also be
drastically reduced. The same would go
for durable medical goods, oxygen and medical laboratory costs. Agency after agency could be made more and
more efficient with business minds managing them (but not owning) them
as opposed to the current lobby owned Congressional prostitutes.
Al Finkelstein 02/06/13
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