A BRILLIANT PLAN NOW UNDERWAY TO 'SAVE' THE POSTAL SERVICE...

I think most of us would agree that the time has now come for Benjamin Franklin's Postal Service to finally be allowed to go the way of the dodo. It's no longer a cost effective operation, bleeding literally Billions of taxpayer dollars year after year after year. Personally, I think we should give the private sector a crack at it. However, having said that there is an effort currently underway that is designed to bring attention to the financial plight of the Unites States Postal Service (USPS) and to fight calls for its privatization. Apparently, 10 postal workers, activists, and supporters think they have now come up with the perfect way to do just that. What these imbeciles have done is to actually announce, just on Monday, that they would be staging a four-day hunger strike. Just four days? Gee, that's not much of a commitment here folks. In fact it's kinda lame!

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, DEMOCRAT, and yes the fella that has conversed with aliens from another world, joined the protesters on Capitol Hill for their big announcement (which nobody saw because everyone was watching the Supreme Court that morning) and offered words of encouragement. “Make no mistake about it, this is an effort to try to privatize even more postal services,” said Kucinich who, naturally, is not joining in the hunger strike. Adding, “And this would inevitably result in less service, and higher costs for postal service for the American people.” When asked why he wasn’t joining the hunger strike, Rep Kucinich responded: “I’m a vegan, so I’m kind of hungry all the time. I’m here in moral support of their efforts.” What a stand up guy old Dennis is. Definitely the kind of guy you want on your team.

The protesters say they are focusing their attention on a requirement that mandates the “postal service pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance,” at least according to POLITICO. “The postal service has adapted to the change in the volume of mail,” said Jamie Partridge speaking for Communities and Postal Workers United, a labor group that has “partnered” with the protest. “That’s not what’s killing the postal service. Not the Internet. Not private competition. Not even the recession. It’s this prefunded mandate.” Wearing yellow T-shirts with the phrase, “Congress is starving the postal service,” the 10 hunger strikers plan to march on Capitol Hill, USPS headquarters, and the Washington Post headquarters (because the WaPo published op-eds endorsing budget cuts) before ending their hunger strike on Thursday, write the Post's Lisa Rein reports.

So, am I the only one here who thinks this is a pretty stupid idea. I mean look, if you're gonna go on a hunger strike, then make it a bona fide hunger strike, not some Hollywood diet for four days. And how much of an impact do these clowns really expect to have. Oh I'm sure they'll get a fair share of Democrats, but only because we're talking about union folks and there's the threat that the government might potentially waste a little less of our money. Nope, I'm just not seeing the point here. And how do we know that these 'hunger strikers' won’t be getting food snuck into them? These people always have to find a way to cheat. They just want us to think that they're starving themselves for four whole days. The bottom line here is that we need to cut our losses, and turn the entire postal service operation over to some private firm that can do it better and cheaper.