Is "privatizing" a four-letter word?

Brasscheck is venturing into another odd gray area with today's emailed video.

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The US Postal System is one of the biggest employers in America.

It's also one of the only means of communication that is mandated to be private.

So why are the powers that be doing everything they can to destroy it?

Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/27539.html

Tears for this racist, universally disliked fedgov monopoly -- what's going on here? Oh, that's right -- Brasscheck is run by ethnic liberals and they have these Strangelovian moments where they suddenly start exclaiming the virtues of some "liberal" or socialist utopian business. The weird thing about this trailer is that it doesn't state outright what has caused the change in PO life or how the producers feel USPS is in danger. Is the real message "save the mailmen"? (Excuse me, the "postal workers" and "letter carriers".)

It's natural (if indeed lamentable) for a big faceless politically-correct bureaucracy to get nasty and tyrannical when economic reality comes knocking at the door -- in this case, one assumes, it's digital technology making paper and stamps obsolete. (A factor not mentioned at all in the trailer??) And it's natural for people to cling to job security and wax nostalgic about years spent with the entity. But buried among the reasons they finally give for the USPS' downfall is one I suspect is the real key -- privatization.

Highly unsettling is the implication by some interviewees and indeed the film's title that for a postal worker to snap and start shooting their employers is, by their reckoning, justifiable. Hard to imagine such talk occurring if the subject were a true private-sector business, large or small.

It's all rather elliptical and appears devoid of any consideration of the legality of federal monopoly. OK, one of them exclaims "It's in the Constitution" but not, I suspect, because the person is a committed student of citizen law. Call me a radical, but I consider it an abomination when government horns in on anything that could be handled by the private sector, and otherwise would be.

God knows, I hate injustice and bullying, and appreciate the people who make sure mail gets through no matter what. But I'll respect them a lot more when their collective wish and plan is to take this vaunted aspect of "the American way of life" private.

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