The Democrats and Republicans: Two wolves hunting the United States Postal Service

[wsws.org]

{The Postal Service’s budget crisis started in 2006, with the landmark Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act passed by the Republican George W. Bush administration. The act required the prefunding of the health benefits of retirees, a requirement no other entity, public or private, has to make. This required putting away an extra $5.6 billion per year, strongly contributing to the USPS’ loss of over $62.4 billion between 2007 and 2016.

The bill was passed with a bipartisan consensus. It was co-sponsored by Republican John M. McHugh of New York and two Democrats, Henry Waxman of California and Danny K. Davis of Illinois. It was passed almost unanimously in the House of Representatives with 201 Democrats voting Yes and one abstaining. Among Republicans, 208 voted Yes, 20 No, and two abstained. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, then a member of the House of Representatives, voted Yes. It passed the Senate, then composed of 44 Democrats and 55 Republicans, without a roll call vote through “unanimous consent.” A direct consequence of this action was the reduction of the USPS workforce by over 65,000 postal workers in 2009 and the start of yearly budget deficits.}

Once again Johnstone's theory of the 1-2 punch coming to knock us out prevails for both establishment parties against us. I highly doubt the MSCM will inform its following of the full details of why the USPS faces this injustice today. All the finger waging going on today by the MSCM AND democratic party towards Trump is an illusion to draw attention from their involvement. Further more-----

{Democratic President Barack Obama continued and accelerated the assault on USPS workers.

In 2011, under the pretext of reducing the federal budget deficit, the Obama administration outlined a plan to restructure the Retiree Health Benefit Fund and “refund” $6.8 Billion from the fund to the federal government. In response, The American Postal Workers Union ignored the attack and announced in a statement, “APWU Praises Obama’s effort, but Long-Term Solution is Needed.” During his term in office, Obama nominated a Republican board of governors, and the management pushed through severe restructuring. During his term, over 3,700 post offices were shut down and over 150,000 career employee positions were cut. The real estate firm CBRE, headed by Richard Blum, the husband of California Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, won the contract to sell off the post offices.}

Then under Obama we see another case of the union working against its workers {again thanks to the work of WSWS} and a husband of a democratic senator awarded a contract to sell off post offices and land. Also a clear case of conflict of interest. After these jabs the fight is turned over to Trump for the knock out. But even that comes with bipartisan support.

{Democrats showed no such concern for the future of the post office when they controlled both houses of Congress during the beginning of Obama’s first term.}

This is when everyone should have began to see Obama for the fraud he is. Even I went on to vote for this asshat again though, though now in deep questioning mode It took the continued warring in the middle east and Venezuela issue to finally pull me out of the rabbit hole I was in.

{The Democratic Party is attempting to direct the opposition brewing among postal workers and all sections of workers against Trump toward the election of former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris. Biden recently tweeted, “We can’t let Donald Trump destroy the Postal Service.”

But Biden served in the Obama administration, which spearheaded its own attacks not just on postal workers but on autoworkers and the entire working class in the aftermath of the 2009 recession. This has not prevented the APWU from endorsing Biden, demonstrating its role as a tool of management and political prop for the Democratic Party.}

The shit show continues!

{The fight to halt the privatization of the United States Postal Service requires instead the mobilization of the working class completely independent of the Democratic Party and its trade union appendages. This requires the formation of rank-and-file safety committees of postal workers, connected with teachers, autoworkers and all other workers, toward the movement of a general strike .

We urge all postal workers that agree with this article to reach out to us, and to organize their fellow co-workers in their workplaces. We will assist you every step of the way.}

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