Who can forget when the President, in his attempt at explaining how wonderful and efficient government-run agencies are, compared the Post Office to Fed-Ex and UPS and declared that it was always the Post Office that was in trouble, not the private sector businesses. So much for beefing up that confidence in government Mr. President.
The piling on comes when Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. uses Obama’s stupid comparison and states that if it wasn’t for the Post Office, FedEx, UPS and DHL would be charging $100 a letter. Is that what capitalism and free enterprise needs is a “public option” from the government to keep competitive businesses……well, competitive? He seems to think so.
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And speaking of the Post Office, I had to pay them a visit this morning. Generally, I keep stamps on hand and if I have a package to mail I go to the “dumb” teller in the lobby so I don’t have to stand in long lines and watch the non productivity (sorry! I have friends and family who are postal workers and some retired).
As I stood in line with my two packages, one just a bit too long to fit in the “dumb” drop box, I watched as postal workers, some front desk clerks, others behind-the-scenes mail sorters busy having chat sessions and glancing toward the lobby hoping nobody would notice. It was quite obvious customer service didn’t come first. Good golly! That public option at work!
I don’t want to pick on postal workers because I’m sure the same goes on in many places but besides all that, recall the announcement that the Post Office is going broke. The government can’t run that business and the President admitted it. But Jesse Jackson, Jr. thinks it’s the Post Office that keeps our UPS and FedEx package prices down.
He exclaims that the public option in the health care bill would be just like the United States Post Office. Does that mean I can go to the Post Office, mail my letters and get a flu shot? S-W-E-E-E-E-T!
Tom Remington
