No more bailouts: Privatize the Post Office and Amtrak

It is high time that we change the constitution and allow the free market to take over our mail services. I do not understand how a company that has a monopoly in the market cannot seem to make a profit. The Post Office lost $2.8 billion in 2008 while the Post Master General raked in $263.575 last year with a “BONUS” of $135,000. Why did John E. Potter receive pay raises of 40 percent since 2006 and the bonus when his company is failing. Where is the phony outrage from our leaders in Congress? Where is the 90% tax on Mr. Potter’s bonus?

There is one factor in the Post Office not making a profit and that would be unions. It seems that any industry with a large presence of union thugs seems to have a hard time of making a profit. Airlines, Detroit Auto Makers and Amtrak. Amtrak has never made a profit since 1971 when it was created. The Obama Administration now wants the power to take over failing companies and run them into the ground like they have the Post Office and Amtrak. Why do liberals think that the government can successfully run a company when they cannot even run Medicare and Social Security.

It is time to privatize the Post Office and Amtrak and quit dumping billions of taxpayer moneys into the government cesspit. You will not see the liberal controlled congress or White House take any actions to privatize these companies. Union thugs are the liberals puppet master and they will do nothing to upset their applecart. I have a couple friends that work for the Post Office and they say that the US should privatize the agency and lessen the power of the Union thugs. I will not hold my breath!

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