Not even post office safe

Dear editor:

The U.S. Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7, states, “To establish Post Offices and post Roads,” so why is it that we have a president and a political party opposing this constitutional requirement?

We can go into debt by the trillions to bail out profitable corporations. We can go into debt to pay for more war, we can go into debt to pay for tax cuts for the rich that they don’t need, they just want but we can’t bail out the U.S. Postal Service when, for the first time since at least the

1970s, they need some help? They’ve not taken one penny from taxpayers for at least 50-plus years. Even after a crippling piece of legislation in 2005 cost them over

$5 billion per month to fund a program not needed for 75 years. Yet now that they, not unlike all the profitable for-profits out there, ask for a little help, they are denied. The Republican Senate wouldn’t help, until recently when they finally passed a bill for $25 billion knowing that the president would veto it. That veto could be overridden, but I doubt the Republican-controlled Senate will do that. We need to call every day our members of the House and Senate to put pressure on them to override this veto. Already the new postmaster general the president put in place has ordered the USPS slow down our mail deliveries and even not deliver some areas for a day as reported by letter carriers. This is nothing more than an ongoing ploy to convince people government is not efficient and it needs to be privatized. What’s next? Will it be to privatize the presidency? The Congress? The Supreme Court? Judith Zitko Hot Springs Village