[usalady]

According to Postmaster General John Potter the Post Office has lost $4.7 billion so far this year and expects it to be $7 billion in the red by the end of the fiscal year because of the recession and the movement of letters and bills to e-mail.

[pepsionice]

I have this idea....taxing the guys who make over $250k a year and make them pay for the failing post offices in America. It would be a surcharge on their taxes. Then I’d allow everyone to just mail anything they wanted....for free.

[Kartographer]

So is this what Obama is promising?

[Politicalities]

I can't believe he'd say anything so asinine... so ignorant. UPS and FedEx? In case the President didn't notice, UPS and FedEx deliver high-priority packages and parcels, but they do not deliver regular first-class mail. And why not? Because they are forbidden by law to do so. The law gives the United States Postal Service a monopoly in the delivery of most mail, and private business may not compete.

How is the President of the United States ignorant of this? How are his handlers?

[Parley Baer]

Someone loose their teleprompter?

[OneWingedShark]

The sad thing is that the Post Office COULD be a profit-turning organization.

[cvq3842]

Obama’s an idiot.

If Palin had said something so stupid the media would be all over her for weeks.

[two23]

But wait! There’s a video!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/11/obama_the_post_office_is_always_having_problems.html

Is he really this dumb, or did the wireless device in his ear make him say it?

[Turbo Pig]

Ok, to be fair, he was using the analogy to show that there would be private sector competition to the boondoggle he is throwing out there, because the government plan will have problems inherent to government run plans.

That said, he forgot to mention that his plan makes it so that employers in the private sector will find it financially beneficial to get rid of their Employee Health Care. Through taxation, increased labor costs, etc, employers one by one will start dropping plans, until the government plan is the only one left. A small businessman will find his bottom line effected less by paying the fine for NOT providing a health care plan than jumping through all the hoops and paying all the taxes to provide one.

Not matter what he says, he has always been for a single payer government run system. Obama said it back in what 2003, when running for Congress, that it would take 10-15-20 years to get rid of the private health care market. He, along with his cronies in Congress know EXACTLY what is going to happen.

His intellectual dishonesty is breath taking at times.

[Islander7]

The best reason not to support 0bamacare came from the President's own mouth.

[two23]

It is stupid because private sector business cannot survive if they do not make money (profit) but government run entities don’t have to make money—in fact they are allowed to continue forever losing money.
(Amtrack, Post Office etc)
How can a government business that has unlimited funds and doesn’t have to earn a penny, create fair competition with similar private sector business?
Just F.O.S.

[Queen of Excelsior]

I bet this was a double face palm moment for our buddy Rahm. Now that’s a video I’d love to see.

[ctdonath2]

I’m surprised that line didn’t kill support for ObamaCare outright.

[paulycy]