Tuesday Feb 2 2010

On January 25 we  reported that WMT is laying off 11,200. These are food demo folks at Sam's, instead WMT will outsource to a company that provides, you guessed it, food demonstrators. Now the President just got a similar question about the US Post Office.  From http://www.boortz.com

OBAMA ON YOUTUBE

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Just a quick little insight into the mind of Barack Obama. First of all, did you know that the man hasn't held a prime-time press conference in six months? Apparently this puts him on the same scale as Herbert Hoover. But moving right along … so Obama decided to host a 30-minute Q&A session via YouTube.

First of all, he was asked if the Postal Service should be privatized. Obama says that this is a "bad idea." You see, I'm guessing the idea of the private sector doing something better than government is completely foreign to PrezBO. Remember … for Obama the private sector is always the second choice.

Okay gang, let's turn this thinking around. If the President thinks it  would be a bad idea to privatize the Post Office, okay, how is it possible that UPS, Fed Ex, Lone Star Express can possibly thrive while the Post Office exists?  Should we socialize UPS, Fed Ex etc, and make them part of the Federal Government?  Mypoint about critical thinking is that one way to put an idea in perspective is simply to reverse the premise, here if Federalizing the Post Office is so swell, why not federalize  every one in the delivery business?

Here is another question for the President. Why are there Fed Ex boxes outside the entrance to most Post Offices?  Does that strike anyone else as odd?

Going Postal is now in the lexicon for someone who 'loses it' showing up to work and shooting the co workers. There is no such phrase for going  Fed EX or going UPS. Why is this?  The answer is that Postal Workers literally believe their employment is a right not a privilege. When they lose the job, it is just too much and they cannot comprehend the reality. 

Just another lessson in down to earth Tom Sowell economics.