MADDOW: Footage from a hearing today at which the postmaster general — yet again, something cool about the post office. It`s the postmaster general. Yes, sir.
Today, the postmaster general and the head of one of the largest postal employee unions testified together about the contract they just collectively bargained for. It was a contract in which each side made compromises like layoffs and cost-cutting and they came up with a deal in which both sides, both employment and labor — both sides, employer and employee, felt was pretty fair, and pretty frugal.
But even though the post office gets no direct funding whatsoever, even though it does not receive taxpayer funding, the fact that it is part of the government, the fact that is — the fact that it provides a government service that Americans really like, means that by definition, Republicans hate it. And the fact that there is a good labor management employer/employee relationship there, a relationship that is seen as productive and constructive on both sides — in Republican eyes, that is not a good thing. That is something that Republicans in government would like to change.
This little “Republicans hate the post office” hearing today was, of course, not the main event in Washington today. But this kind of thing is part of the regular background noise in D.C., all the time now.
With Republicans in control of the House, there`s a constant drum beat of “we hate the government doing things that people like.”
Yeah, Republicans hate the Post Office because it is a prime example of a quasi government agency that performs well and pays well and which undermines their war on the middle class. People they consider “ordinary” are doing extraordinary work to provide excellent service to all Americans and to Republicans this smacks of socialism. Contracts settled for the mutual benefit of both management and labor upset their goal of busting unions to keep working men and women down. This hearing smacks of economic McCarthyism. They just can’t stand it when middle class people earn a living wage.
Keep thinking that. Without the union, you wouldn’t make enough to fill up your gas tank.
First there is no good relationship at the post office between any 2 parties. Employees hate their job because of management and the union. Both sides are the problem.
IT JUST KILLS ME HOW SOME HAVE BECOME SO ANTI-GOVERNMENT WAS IT SO UNPATRIOTIC WHEN IT CAME TO DECLARING WAR ON OTHERS! NOW THOSE SAME COUNTRIES THAT HAD BEEN A THORN TO OUR GOVERNMENT THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOW DECLARING REVOLT AGAINST THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS
Right on Rachel…glad to see that some like u have more brains and gumption than those little people…Ross and Issa have to learn to use the potty and go back to pre school ….these tea party idiots have to be educated…they are just looking for publicity for their inflated egos….
Next year….they can go back to ripping off their employees in their businesses….
Joe