The End of "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

In the 1990s former President Menem of Argentina started selling all the companies that were under the jurisdiction of the Central Government. In order to make these companies more attractive for investors he first went through the process of dismantling them, selling parts of them, shutting down part of their operations, or cutting funds so that the service would deteriorate to the point where the public asked for something to be done. The President and his cronies were all involved in the sales, receiving kickbacks from the institutions that purchased these enterprises.
Representative Issa from California, Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and arguably the wealthiest member of Congress, has a proposal to put up of 120 thousand Post Office employees in the street. His real objective, and of his buddies, is to privatize an institution that has been in service 235 years delivering mail to both cities and rural areas.
The United States Postal Service is a self-sufficient entity, that receives zero dollars from the Federal Government. They deliver to the most remote places in the country. Federal Express and UPS, the two private competitors only cover 75% of the US. The USPS delivers packages of their competitors to the other 25% that the private sector does not cover.
The reason he wants to propose the dismantling of this great institution is because in the lame duck session of 2006 the Republican Majority, knowing that it had lost the election, passed a law that forced the Postal Service to fund its pension plan for the next 75 years in 10 years.
That put the USPS in the red. No other federal or private organization is forced to do such a thing.
The cost of a stamp is less than 50 cents. The private sector does not and would never deliver for such a lower price.
This measure would also force to cut delivers from 6 days to 5 days a week.
It would hurt rural areas, small businesses, lower income people and put a huge amount of people in the street.
This is another proof that the fanatics running the US House do not have the best intention for this country. They only want to benefit their friends in the private sector, and in the words of Senator McConell: Making Obama A One-Term President Is My Single Most Important Political Goal, even if that means the destruction of the country we used to know.