Trump’s Vendetta Against Jeff Bezos Could Destroy the Postal Service
The president reportedly
threatened to veto the $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package if funds went to the USPS,
which comes as he ramps up opposition to voting by mail in November.
The United States Postal Service has warned that it will “run out of cash” by the fall without intervention—
and Donald Trump appears unwilling to help.
the president vowed to veto the $2 trillion rescue package Congress passed last month if it contained any bailout money for this crucial independent agency,
which has been under additional strain due to the coronavirus crisis.
He has instead called for USPS to “raise the prices” on companies like Amazon.
“They ought to do that, and we are looking into it,” the president said Wednesday.
“We’ve been pushing them now for over a year.”
Trump has frequently attacked USPS,
roping the agency into his long-running blood feud with Amazon and its founder,
Jeff Bezos, who also owns another Trump target: the Washington Post.
Trump has said the company costs the postal service “massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy,”
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Repugs / oligarchy have long wanted to destroy the USPS,
that's why the Repugs made USPS fund its retirement for 75 years ahead,
and after destruction, hand the USPS to privatizers,
who will close 1000s of offices, layoffs 100Ks of unionized employees, and deliver ty service for much higher prices, as Capitalism always does.
Lifted from slashdot, had a good laugh...
Don't those greedy letter carriers know that there are multinational corporations that are barely surviving bailout to bailout? Did you know that many of them can't even afford to pay taxes? I know! Meanwhile those greedy bas s at the Post Office are just rolling in LAVISH health care and EXTRAVAGANT retirement savings. It really puts things in perspective.
if USPS is privatized, the postal employees union will be annulled, salaries will be cut, 10Ks employees fired, in the oligarchy/BigCorp War on Labor
and if privatized, the USPS pension obligations will be dumped on the taxpayer
Trash's war on Bezos/WaPo by letting USPS go bankrupt is smokescreen for privatization of USPS
the “bailouts” turning dollar into toilet paper
this is just QE on steroids
making 99% of our population dirt poor
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