Posted on 08/12/2009 6:01:56 PM PDT by theothercheek
The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $7 billion in 2009 and the same amount in 2010 – this after a succession of postal rate increases since 2006 (first class postage rose 2¢ to $0.39 for the first ounce and is now $0.44) – and thousands of branches coast-to-coast are curtailing services and may be shuttered. Is government-run mail delivery really the best analogy Obama could have come up with to assuage people’s fears about government-run healthcare? Maybe he’s been hanging around Joe Biden too long.
Oh, and, contrary to Obama’s assertions, FedEx and UPS are not “doing just fine.”
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With the constant drumbeat of healthcare costs ‘doubling in 10 years’, what else has done the same?
My Milwaukee, WI property taxes doubled in 7 years. No one was calling for “reform” on that one.
I imagine I’m one of millions that had spending power (healthcare spending included) trashed by run away local government spending for failing school districts, non-responsive police departments and other public employee union boondoggles.
Where’s the government plan for that?
Over the last 10 years the one-way fare on my commuter bus went from $3 to $5.50 - that’s nearly double. Imagine, $11 per day just to get back and forth to work, and you don’t even have the convenience of door-to-door service as you would with driving yourself.
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