{"id":8049,"date":"2011-09-28T18:57:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2011-09-28T18:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T23:57:28","slug":"republican-saboteurs-go-after-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/28\/republican-saboteurs-go-after-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Saboteurs Go After The Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article I finally decided to read after passing it up many time was headlined <a title=\"Article on Truth Out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/postal-service-employees-protest-manufactured-crisis-aims-target-unions-and-privatize-service\/131721\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Postal Service Employees Rally to End Manufactured Crisis<\/strong><\/a>. Perhaps the following is the money quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brechin says Congress has successively demanded that the USPS run itself more like a business since making it a quasi-corporation in 1971. &#8220;For the free-market fundamentalists, the idea that anything should be government, anything should be in the public domain is absolutely anathema,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They want to get rid of everything. I think the postal reform act in 2006, which most of us never heard about, was a back door way to destroy the postal service. It seems to be deliberate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been passing up reading stories like the one with the headline above because I figured I already knew what was in them.\u00a0 Of course the union is going to complain about the job cuts, not news.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason I did look at the story in my previous post, <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/28\/a-manufactured-%e2%80%98crisis%e2%80%99-congress-can-let-the-post-office-save-itself-without-mass-layoffs-or-service-reductions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Who Woulda Thought \u2013 A Manufactured \u2018Crisis\u2019 At The Post Office<\/strong><\/a> which pointed to an article with a more innocuous headline <a title=\"Story from Think Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/09\/28\/330524\/postal-non-crisis-post-office-save-itself\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Manufactured \u2018Crisis\u2019: Congress Can Let The Post Office Save Itself Without Mass Layoffs Or Service Reductions<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that previous post, I did a little leg work to see who was in power when this legislation was passed.\u00a0 I just wanted to be sure, but it came as no surprise.\u00a0\u00a0 The Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping the headline of this post will finally be enough to alert people that there is actually a story here that they might not have imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article I finally decided to read after passing it up many time was headlined Postal Service Employees Rally to End Manufactured Crisis. Perhaps the following is the money quote from the article: Brechin says Congress has successively demanded that the USPS run itself more like a business since making it a quasi-corporation in 1971. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}