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Trump Orders Audit of Postal Service After Suggesting Amazon Is To Blame For Their Troubles (politico.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Postal Service to undergo an audit Thursday evening, a move that comes after president's repeated claims that Amazon is fleecing the USPS through alleged unfair business practices. "The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout," reads the executive order Trump issued shortly before 9 p.m. While not explicitly mentioned in the order, the president has hammered e-commerce giant Amazon in recent weeks and alleged that the company and its CEO Jeff Bezos are driving the USPS into the ground. "I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump wrote on Twitter on April 3. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer." According to the executive order, a task force comprise of top officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who would chair the group, will lead the investigation into the USPS' finances and will be required to issue recommendations and a final report no later than early August.
Besides abortions - which the democrats are the ones for - what genocide are you talking about? And that doesn't leave mass graves since the bodies are either sold or disposed of as "medical waste".
Yes, it has been established the USPS's biggest problem is their need to pre-fund all their pensions for the next 75 years.
Oh the horror, being fiscally responsible.
Many of the pubic sector retirement plans are ponzi schemes that are in the process of unraveling. They are paying out retirements now with money the is being paid into the system. That's not sustainable, it puts millions at risk, and puts taxpayers on the hook for someone else's retirement. All retirement plans should be prepaid/invested. That's the responsible thing to do.
And I say this as a person who recently made the move from the private sector to the public sector.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Is the USPS a private for-profit company? No.
The real reason Republicans want to kill this quasi-public, self-funding agency is because they can't make money (off the little guy) by buying stock in it and sucking profits out through a golden straw. How dare the common man have a reliable way to deliver mail that doesn't pay for their yachts?
Holy cow, you actually believe that stuff, don't you?
The Dem millionaire politicians, of course, all made their loot by farming (organic, of course!) unicorn poop.
We prefer the "Kill a tiny collection of cells before it becomes a baby" because sometimes it is the responsible decision for parents who don't have the means to bring a child up properly argument. But hey, you either get science or you don't.