Posted by
drpete on Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:08:13 AM
The U.S. Postal Service in my memory has raised the price of stamps about 30-fold. They use predatory pricing for package shipping versus UPS, FedEx, et al. Illegal? Sure, but if you're the government . . . So, USPS is still losing money, since fewer and fewer people continue to use them, and those who still do, do so less. I saw a survey question last week on Townhall that asked something like, should the postal service be required to (a) continue delivery six days or (b) be allowed to cut back to five?
I wondered where (c) was. How about (c) Give 30-day notice it will close and cease all service? Hey, two-thirds of what the federal government does and spends it has no enumerated power to do. The post office is enumerated, but what the heck. Nobody in Washington pays any attention anyway.
Then, there's Miguel Tejada -- major-league baseball all-star -- who was convicted of "misleading congress". Excuse me, but if I'd been Tejada, sitting before the congressional committee, I'd have sat there with a copy of the U.S. Constitution before me. When asked the first question, I'd have sat silently reading from page one. When the question was repeated by the impatient congressman, I'd have looked up and said, "Please give a few minutes, congressman. I'm trying my best to find in this document where it says that you or anyone on this panel has the constitutional authority to even require my being here, much less asking me such a question."
And I can name about 350 congressmen and 42 senators who've lied to congress, and that was just when they took the oath of office. Never mind that they continue to lie daily. And I'll throw in President Obama, who lied twice when taking his oath of office, once on January 20 and again the following day. And he has also continued daily.