"They do it all the time," he said. "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. ... It's the Post Office that's always having problems."Gee, at a time when people are really concerned that the Democrats' health care plan will blow an irreparable hole in the deficit, is a comparison to the Post Office really the best choice he could make.
The Foundry at the Heritage reminds us about how the Post Office works.
1.) The U.S. Post Office is the only entity allowed by federal law to deliver first class mail to your mailbox. In fact, Fedex and UPS are strictly prohibited from delivering “non-urgent” letters. If the government can fairly compete and is setting fair rules, wouldn’t the post office be open to competition at your mailbox?When a common rant against government-run health care is that people don't want the same crowd that runs the Post Office or the DMV to run their health care, the President chose a particularly unfortunate metaphor to answer a quite legitimate question as to how private insurance plans could compete when the government enters the market. And when Medicare and Medicaid are broke, is bringing up our broke Post Office the best idea if you're trying to sell more government involvement in health care?
2.) If Americans were offered “free” postage paid for by massive government spending and tax hikes, would Fedex and UPS still exist?
3.) The Post Office is on track to lose a staggering $7 billion this year alone. How will a government-run health care plan manage taxpayer resources more efficiently?
4.) Postmaster General John Potter says he lacks the “tools” necessary to run the Post Office effectively like a business. Would a government-run health care system have the tools it needs to run as effectively as the private sector entities it is replacing?
5.) On the one hand, the President remarks how great his public health care plan will be. On the other hand, he notes it won’t be good enough to crowd out your private insurance, i.e. the Post Office comparison. So which is it Mr. President? Will it be so great that private insurance disappears or so awful that it isn’t worth creating in the first place?
6.) But the most important question is this: if you have an urgent piece of mail you need delivered, life or death, who are you going to call? Everyone saying the government…please raise your hands. (crickets)
The most frightening line from Joe Nocera’s New York Times piece is this: “As for Mr. Potter himself, while he may want more freedom to run the Postal Service like a real business, he, too, seemed surprisingly wedded to outmoded ideas about mail service in America. ‘This country needs to have and to protect universal service,’ he said.”
Protecting universal service at the expense of cost, innovation, and quality of care. Sound familiar?
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And Postmaster General John Potter has already requested permission to stop Saturday mail deliveries, as well as announcing the closing of hundreds of Post Office locations.
More evidence that Magic Mouth Obama's handlers had better repair those teleprompters soon and get back to screening his audiences for sycophants who can chant, "Yes, we can!" the loudest.
Bo-zo proves again that he's not the sharpest tack in the box.
In addition to the post office gaff, Obama repeated another gaff that has been part of his act recently. He speaks of a letter he got from a lady opposing "socialized" and "government-run" health care while demanding that he not touch her Medicare. Obama mocks her, saying "That's what Medicare is."
Given his many denials that Obamacare amounts to "socialized" and "government-run" health care, you'd think Obama would be careful about pointing out that Medicare, the program after which Obamacare is largely modeled, is exactly that.
But the most important question is this: if you have an urgent piece of mail you need delivered, life or death, who are you going to call? Everyone saying the government…please raise your hands.
Yeah! And if you have an urgent need to invade a country, and try to grab all their oil, who you gonna call? The Boy Scouts of America/ Or the Gubbermint?
I think we all know the answer to that.
Some things the goverment does well; some things the private sector does well. The entire rest of the world realizes that health care is best done at a national level by the government. And that you should be paid more the healthier, I am. Not "you should be paid more, the less health care you give me"...
But right wingers have a learning disability on this.
Jaw Bone,
Serial idiot!
"Yeah! And if you have an urgent need to invade a country, and try to grab all their oil, who you gonna call? The Boy Scouts of America/ Or the Gubbermint?"
Who grabbed what oil?
Distortions like that from the mouths of Obamacare supporters is precisely why nobody but the far left is comfortable with the so-called "reform" plans we've seen so far.
Step back for a second, wipe the froth from your mouth, and ask yourself why, if you cannot trust the government because you think it embarks on criminal ventures, would you trust it to run your health care? Seriously, you're an advocate of handing your life over to politicians!
People don't trust politicians or their toadies.
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