It appears the Washington Post has hit a new low by endorsing Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Service Reform bill and not offering a complete, objective analysis of the whole postal service situation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) last month passed a postal reform bill out of his panel that, while controversial, moves closer to Democratic positions than his previous proposals did. Meanwhile, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) last week struck a deal with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), his GOP counterpart, on a bill in their chamber. Neither the House nor the Senate bill is perfect, but the willingness of the key parties to recognize the problem and adjust their proposals toward each other is a refreshingly positive omen.
First off, to the editors of the Washington Post, the U.S. Postal Service’s financial problems were caused by the Postmaster General, Issa and others in the first place, not by other factors at hand like say… Competition.
And you can’t get anymore clueless like the Postmaster General in comparing the USPS to Greece:
The U.S. Postal Service “will look like Greece” if Congress fails to help it cut costs, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said.
Donahoe, speaking today at the PostalVision 2020 conference in Washington, said the service’s annual expenses will rise to $81 billion by 2016 without congressional action to allow cuts, including reducing a requirement to pay in advance for health benefits for future retirees.
“If we don’t do something about the costs of this organization, we will look like Greece,”
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is really clueless. He looked at the situation in the U.S. Postal Service to Greece if nothing is done.
Just one problem Mr. Donahoe: The problem with Greece is debt, MOUNTING debt. And the debt is being slapped on the country’s government more and more while austerity measures worsening the recession in the country and making its citizens riot continuously.
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