http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/24/postal-service-eyes-closing-thousands-post-offices/?intcmp=prn_baynote-js_Postal_Service_Eyes_Closing_Thousands_of_Post_Offices
What a sad day it is in this country, when common sense must waste the fiat and have to lobby congress to be able to purge itself of an abscess, that's affecting the health of it's heart, as well as ours.
And isn't it a fine example of the infection that's coursing through the infrastructural veins that make up the the rest of our country, that the political puss is allowed to touch?
We as a nation have gangrene, from the lack of a healthy circulatory system and now we're going to have to cut off parts, one piece at a time, to arrest the infection or make the choice to die.
The question is, what parts should be cut off and how much should be cut.
Great care must be made when choosing lest "we" cut off more than would be healthy for us as a nation.
We rely strongly on the Internet for most of our economic communications as well as processes for the transference of fiat, aka money, thus allowing the risk of deception regarding our transactions (for which we are still fully accountable for) through hacking.
What happens, should that process of transfer (even though flawed)that we all have come to utilize, be totally annihilated? What would happen to the infrastructural system with no way to communicate or be able to transfer funds?
Obama's need for a cyber command tells us that there is a real threat from the thought above, which then brings me back to the point that great care must be made when amputating off parts of the system.
The post office ensures the stability of the country's communication as well as the continuation of the the safe transfer of all of our money transactions should something happen to the "Net" or even the "grid" itself.
It's imperative that common sense must be used, accordingly.
The safety of our nations basic structural communication capabilities, must not be tampered with or bought by the use of lobbyist funding.
Think about it!
The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.
Now, with the red ink showing no sign of stopping, the postal service is hoping to ramp up a cost-cutting program that is already eliciting yelps of pain around the country. Beginning in March, the agency will start the process of closing as many as 2,000 post offices, on top of the 491 it said it would close starting at the end of last year. In addition, it is reviewing another 16,000—half of the nation's existing post offices—that are operating at a deficit, and lobbying Congress to allow it to change the law so it can close the most unprofitable among them. The law currently allows the postal service to close post offices only for maintenance problems, lease expirations or other reasons that don't include profitability.
The news is crushing in many remote communities where the post office is often the heart of
