What are the odds that Elon Musk might buy a privatized postal service?
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And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid.
As he puts it, “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being
taken private.” He adds, “It’s an idea that a lot of people have
liked for a long time.”
Hmmm, I haven’t heard even one voice say our phenomenal public mail service should be privatized.
Indeed, it’s a widely popular
government agency because it works for everyone — rich and poor, urban and
rural.
When he claims that “a lot of people” like the idea of
postal privatization, how many? Six? Six million? And what kind of people?
Working stiffs, poor people, rural residents? He gives a coded answer to that
when he refers to the Post Office being “taken” private.
Taken by whom? Of course — by the corrupt profiteering
billionaires who funded Trump.
Their business plan is to have him hand the agency to them in the name of instituting “corporate efficiency” — meaning the privateers will go to three-day mail delivery, cut off service to unprofitable poor and rural communities, raise prices, and fire legions of experienced postal workers.
They’re out to steal an essential public treasure, but
they’re also trying to censor opposition to their political control of
government. The Postal Service was created in 1792 in part to prevent royalists
and oligarchs from controlling communications.
If you think that’s not a problem in modern America, reflect
on the blunt media censorship being imposed right now by Elon Musk, Mark
Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other petty potentates of corporate plutocracy.
To learn more, visit the American Postal Workers Union:
apwu.org.
OtherWords columnist Jim
Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker.
This op-ed was distributed by OtherWords.org.
