{"id":742,"date":"2012-03-15T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-05-02T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T13:07:14","slug":"political-destruction-of-the-us-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/15\/political-destruction-of-the-us-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Political destruction of the US Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congress\u2019s war on the post office
\nThe Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics
\nhttp:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/14\/congresss_war_on_the_post_office\/singleton\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Just like the whole war on contraception is really a war on women<\/a>, this war on the Post Office is really a war on unions. It is crystal clear to me that this idiotic mandate (exclusively applied to the Post Office!) to fully fund their pension and health care is entirely motivated to destroy the post office and as a consequence destroy one of the largest remaining unions in the US. I am not a general fan of unions and have seen plenty of examples of grievous mismanagement and outright crookery (compared to Wall Street, though, they are babes in the wood), but when a union has worked so closely with management, as the Post Office union clearly has, any objection has to be due to clear and unyielding ideological bias, nothing more. Much like the blather about the public service sector unions being a ‘drain’ on state and local budgets (a blatant lie since the state and local governments failed to properly fund the benefits to begin with (much like the whole social security funding scare is a blatant smoke screen because our ‘great’ government has bled the fund dry)) and therefore should be stripped of their collective bargaining powers, it is purely and simply an ideological war. There are plenty of things wrong in the US today, but based on my analysis unions and contraception are so far from the top of the list that this attention would be amusing if there wasn’t such an organized and well funded effort to push the agenda.<\/p>\n

Now, if it is true that this is really what Americans want, then I clearly am in the wrong damn country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress\u2019s war on the post office The Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/14\/congresss_war_on_the_post_office\/singleton\/ Just like the whole war on contraception is really a war on women, this war on the Post Office is really a war on unions. It is crystal clear to me that this idiotic mandate (exclusively … Continue reading “Political destruction of the US Post Office”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}