{"id":232,"date":"2007-05-18T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T22:50:18","slug":"po-pu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"PO = PU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good article on why the Post Office should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/oped\/bal-op.stamps15may15,0,1308702.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines\">privatized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the important stuff Americans buy &#8211; food, clothing, and shelter &#8211; is produced almost entirely by the private sector. The result? Nearly everyone is fed, clothed and housed.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so special about mail delivery that the government must do it? No one seems to have a good explanation. It&#8217;s in the Constitution that the federal government can create post offices &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t say the government has to do that, and it certainly does not legalize any postal monopoly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason the Post Office can&#8217;t be privatized is that you have a gigantic overpaid group of postal service employees who would suddenly be armed, angry and out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s also that rural mail would be more expensive.  But frankly, as someone who has chosen to live in a semi-rural area, I don&#8217;t need any <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=211\">government subsidies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good article on why the Post Office should be privatized. Most of the important stuff Americans buy &#8211; food, clothing, and shelter &#8211; is produced almost entirely by the private sector. The result? Nearly everyone is fed, clothed and housed. What&#8217;s so special about mail delivery that the government must do it? No one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PO = PU<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-3K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}