Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these care networks in areas already lacking services.

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    Not that it matters, but don’t we need a constitutional amendment to be able to privatize it?

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    It’s going to be like comcast/amazon/prison system running our mail system. The republicans have been trying to bankrupt our postal service for decades. The way these headlines are phrased, like it’s inevitable, isn’t a good sign.

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      They just finished the coup degrace in England with their postal service. Probably funded by the same folks and groups. Standard approach.

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            During trump’s first term, there was a banking thing that came up. I can’t find it in any of my bookmarks. Basically, there is an organization in the UK that sets the bank rates for the US and them, maybe more. I can’t remember all of the details, but it was four letters and I think started with a B? It made me realize that we never really came out from under the crown. He who controls the money, controls everything. Trump is testing that, trying to give it to russia.

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              You may be speaking about LIBOR, I believe that’s relevant internationally though mostly locally? If not that, Exchange rates and currency manipulation is alive and thriving.

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    Whoever “buys” our National services needs to forfeit them back when the nation finally stabilizes. We owe nothing to those complicit in robbery.