Debating a proposal to privatize the post office,

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads". They would have to amend the Constitution to convert it to a private entity. Fuck off rMoney.

It just isn't going to happen. The problem is that Congress imposed the burden of pension extension on the USPS (something no private shipper has to deal with) and THAT'S why they are in financial trouble. Prior to that they always ran a surplus. When a private company will come up with a deal where they'll take an envelope from my house in PA to HI for forty-five cents, I'll consider changing my mind on the issue. That isn't going to happen either. Priority mail is the cheapest and safest way to ship anything shy of seventy pounds. More than that, you need UPS.

Congress has no power to privatize the USPS. See paragraph one of the body of this text. That's directly out of the Constitution.

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pusher.

On Edit: To clarify, they can't get 60 votes in the Senate and they can't get 2/3 of the states to ratify it. It's a distraction issue and they know it. The US government is bound by the Constitution to keep the USPS alive, but the GOP has been caving to the corporate bastards for so long now that I'm not sure I know what kind of diapers I was wearing when they were well into it (but I think they were cloth).

I've got two copies of it within arms' reach. They've got no clue what it says, or what it means for that matter.

equipment housed in the facilities and its value. Asshat fuckwad!

He doesn't have a fucking clue about history, and rMoney doesn't care. All they want is power. Fuck that noise.

What constitution???

Not that Republicans would know what that was.

I have found the biggest loudmouths when it comes to spouting off about what the Constitution actually says are the ones with the least inkling of what it actually contains. To continue to be blissfully, if not criminally, ignorant is to let some squeaky voiced old baby doctor tell you that the reason the Founding Fathers got together was because the Articles of Confederation were not libertarian enough, hence the Constitution.

Paulturds or Paulbots.

what the USPS does. We would have to simply give these welfare queens hundreds of billions of free dollars so that they could charge us $5 to mail a letter.

Another manufactured crisis to bring in the rubes.

And since I do a lot of work for the government I can attest to a similar situation in the SSA and, BLM as well as the USPS.