A depressing political rerun
From a March 6, 2025 Newsweek article titled "Elon Musk Issues USPS Warning:"
"DOGE head Elon Musk, during a virtual appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference:
"I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be
privatized. I think we should privatize the Post Office and Amtrak, for
example...We should privatize everything we possibly can."
I've been trying for days to figure out what and/or how to write about the current crisis in the US government. But I finally realized that I already wrote the post . . . on November 3, 2022. Here's my Tuesday, November 03, 2020 post "This U.S. presidential election is a referendum on libertarianism."
posted by Shira Salamone at 8:49 PM
1 Comments:
Why is this depressing? I assume it's just part of your "orange man is bad" mentality. The USPS is bleeding money and nobody uses it any more. In fact, if it weren't for Amazon paying them to deliver some of their packages, they'd have almost no revenue. Privatizing it means it will be done better and more efficiently. And if it doesn't work, a competitor will rise up. But the USPS has outlived its usefulness. Few people send letters and UPS and FedEx exist as relatively inexpensive ways to send packages.
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