First .. you do know that the Senate has passed a bill for an $11 Billion bailout of the union-dominated post office, don’t you?  Union dominated?  Sure!  You don’t think the Democrat controlled Senate would get this attention from the Democrat Senate if employees weren’t unionized, do you?

I’ve experienced postal worker unions first hand.  Back in the ‘70s, while doing my talk radio show AND going to law school during the day, I took a job with the U.S. Postal Service at night.  I was tossing parcels at the bulk mail facility in Atlanta.  My job was to stand on a platform about 10 feet above the floor of the facility.  A series of about 10 chutes led away from the platform to the floor below.  There was a conveyor that brought bulk mail up to the platform.  My job was to take a look at the zip code and send the boxes down the appropriate chute.  I was pretty slow at first … but once I had the chute codes memorized those boxes flew.  One night (it was an overnight job) the conveyor suddenly stopped.  Some huge man walked up the ramp to the platform and told me to slow down.  To make this long story short … he told me to slow down because the holidays were coming and if management knew these boxes could move through the system this fast they would expect this performance during the Christmas mailing crush and they wouldn’t get their overtime pay.  The man telling me to slow down – to work less efficiently – was the union shop steward.

Anyway … if the House goes along with this we will piss away another $11 Billion that we don’t have on the inefficient and union dominated post office – all without any improvements.

Now … nutty politicians.

We have a Democrat (naturally) Senator from Delaware who has the solution here.  Windmills.  That’s right --- windmills.  Senator Tom Carper wants electricity generating windmills up and down the Atlantic coast.  The electricity generated by these windmills would be stored.  Stored where?  Stored in batteries of post office vehicles.  This way the post office would save money on gas and wouldn’t have to be bailed out by borrowed funds our children and grandchildren would have to pay back.

Yeah.  Makes perfect sense to me.