Congressman are dedicated to their constituents, to the extent that they can get reelected.
Jane Harman in the South Bay lobbied to keep the Hermosa Beach post office open in the face of looming budget cuts.
The Post Office is still turning deficits year after year. From overwhelming pensions eating away at the heart of couriers' consistency, to the drop in first class mail, to the rise of technologies eating away at the federal government's relevance in mail delivery, the Post Office cannot take in enough to offset their losses.
But don't tell local politicians that. Neither snow nor sleet is going to prevent them from demanding that local processing plants stay open for as long as possible. Do they want to restore this country to fiscal balance, or are they only interested in prolonging the agony of a public service which has long since served the public adequately? They want to save jobs, but the employment they want to prop up has become irrelevant with the passage of time. Some of these Congressmen might want to take a hint and back away from such wasteful subsidies, or they may end up out of a job, too.
Liberals all over have pointed to mail delivery as proof that government sector service works. Now what do they have to say for themselves? There is not arcane or ancient about finding private and expedient means for sending letters abroad. Instead of protecting public sector jobs, Congress needs to get out of the business of bolstering public sector unions in the first place. Let the private sector get busy providing a service in the best interests of the country.
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