Dumb
Of all the analogies that he could have picked to sell his idea of a public health care option, President Obama chose the
U.S. Postal Service. See video ( UPS and FedEx are Doing Fine). “UPS and FedEx are doing fine, it’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.” Okaaaaaaaaay, so that is supposed to convince us that creating a health care system modeled on the post office is a good idea. The interesting thing is that he prefaced that dumb statement by describing a public option that was “self sustaining.” In other words, it was on an equal footing and not running deficits. Excuse me, Mr. President, but the Postal Service is on target to lose $7 billion this year and the head of the postal service is in line for an $800,000 bonus. Brilliant!
It also has appeared to escape the President’s notice that UPS and FedEx came into being to address the shortcomings of the postal service and the postal service has been struggling to be more like UPS and FedEx. Express Mail, Priority Mail, does anyone believe those products would exist if FedEx didn’t exist? The postal service was the problem, UPS and FedEx were the solution. So Barack Obama wants to spend $1 trillion to create a problem to compete with the solutions.
Are there ways to improve healthcare? Absolutely. Increase competition across state lines, outlaw frivolous lawsuits… hey, there’s an idea. How about setting up a panel to decide if a lawsuit is real or frivolous? If it is ruled frivolous hit the law firm that brought it with 3x the expenses of the other side. You would kill two birds with one stone. Sharply curtail or eliminate frivolous lawsuits and dry up donations to the Democrats who are dead set on having government run every detail of our lives.
Dumber
Just when you thought President Obama and the main stream media in his pocket could downplay the Biden-like postal gaffe, along comes Jesse Jackson, Jr., to explain what Barack Obama really meant. See video here (Jesse Jackson, Jr. explains). How more scary can it be to think that someone so ignorant of the world around him and economics gets to vote on a government takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. economy. Let me take it point by point.
- “The public option is a stamp, it’s e-mail” – the last time I looked e-mail was private, not public, perhaps that’s why everyone uses it and it work’s exceedingly well.
- “Because of e-mail and because of the postal system, it keeps DHL from charging $100 for an overnight letter” — er, no. First of all e-mail, which is private Congressman, is a complementary service to overnight. You can overnight a cell phone to some one, you can’t e-mail it to them. If you are legally required to have a handwritten signature, you can’t e-mail that. Got it? Second point, the lack of performance from the postal service is what created a market for DHL, UPS, and FedEx. The stamp doesn’t keep DHL form charging $100 for an overnight letter, it is UPS and FedEx that keeps DHL from charging $100 for an overnight letter by charging less. That is called competition, it is called capitalism, it is called a free economy.
He also said this, which is not in the video:
“The post office is universal. It reaches the rural areas. It reaches the urban areas. It reaches where DHL, and UPS, and Fedex will not go. And so in the barrios and the ghettos and the trailer parks of our nation…”
We don’t know if DHL, and UPS, and FedEx would go there because it is ILLEGAL to compete with the post office for first class mail. Doesn’t he know this? When facing more competition companies in a free economy tend to cut prices, but what has happened to the price of a first class stamp? The price of a first class stamp has increased 440% since 1975.
Public Reaction
These two “sales pitches” alone should have you run screaming to the nearest town hall meeting or tea party event. Pelosi says these town hall meetings are organized events? Well I guess they are. They are organized by the colossal stupidity of Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Dowd, Obama, Jackson Jr., thinking they could slip this by unnoticed by the American people. The American people are fed up with them and they are not going to take it anymore.
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