The Postal Service Is Not a GOP Target
Congressional Republicans Just Want You to Think It Is.
Unlike most Americans, many members of Congress have actually read the United States Constitution. They know what it would take to abolish the postal service and they do not intend to do it.
While the threat to end Saturday delivery is real, the threat to abolish the postal service is a scam. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the Constitution requires Congress “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”. Thus, closing or privatizing the USPS would require a constitutional amendment. Despite a lot of hooting and hollering and speechifying, no one has ever proposed an amendment to do that.
Therefore, the speechifying is a load of bovine excrement. It’s another diversionary tactic meant to distract us from the real problems America is facing, such as widening income inequality, corporate takeover of our government and diminishing middle class.
They know how important the postal service is to us, both as a service provider and an employer. So they try to scare us into believing that it will disappear. They use divide, overwhelm, and conquer tactics to set us against each other or to bulldoze us into wasting time on many other issues that either don’t exist or they couldn’t care less about:
- Ashley Judd
- Birtherism
- Implanted RFID chips
- Death panels
- Community organizing
- Michelle Obama’s projects
- Sequestration
- Gun confiscation
- Immigration
- FEMA camps
- Presidential perks
- Taxes
- Government regulations
- Socialism
- Sharia Law
- Federal budget, deficits, and debt
We like, share, comment, and tweet incessantly and obsessively. We post graphs, lists, and pictures of people holding signs. We attend public forums, meetings, and rallies. We argue with our friends and relatives. While we’re running around like a bunch of headless chickens dealing with this stuff, they’re busy dismantling the things that created and sustain the middle class:
- Labor unions
- Jobs
- Workplace health and safety regulations
- Minimum, prevailing, and fair wage laws
- Child labor laws
- Public education
- Housing
- Consumer protections
- Health insurance
- Affordable college
- Voting rights
- Social programs
And life and death issues:
- Marriage equality
- Gun violence
- Reproductive rights
- LGBT rights
- Climate change
- Environmental protections
- Common human decency
Unless and until there is a constitutional amendment proposal on the books, we need to stop wasting time and energy fighting them over the post office. Wake up, folks. Don’t fall for it. Spend your time on the issues that matter.
Contact your local media and your legislators. Tell them what YOU care about. Tell them how YOU want them to spend their time.
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“Closing or privatizing the USPS would require a constitutional amendment. Despite a lot of hooting and hollering… http://t.co/qyftSmf8KW
i kinda like the post office. lets close ups and fedx.
One diversionary tactic among many.
The post office is the single biggest employer of union workers in the entire country. this is the real reason for the attack on the post office. the GOP is using the post office as a proxy attack on unions.