Saturday, August 4, 2012

Peter Orszag wants to privatize the USPS after creating a phony financial crisis

If chutzpah is killing your parents then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you're an orphan then Peter Orszag is the poster child for chutzpah. In his recent article in Bloomberg News he insists the best fix for the post office is to take it private. Where does the chutzpah come from? Orszag was Director of the Office of Management Budget (OMB), an agency that played a key role in crippling the USPS with a manufactured financial crisis.
Read it at Alternet
Privatize the Postal Service? That's Just Going to Make a Small Number of People Rich
David Morris

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's more than chutzpah. Orszag works for a company that can profit from privatization, and Orszag laid the groundwork for the privatization campaign with his mismanagement while in office. A prosecutor should be appointed to determine whether he engaged in deliberate mismanagement and deceit while in office in order to profit afterward.

David said...

If chutzpah is killing your parents then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you're an orphan then Peter Orszag is the poster child for chutzpah.

I think it's more like putting the fox in charge of the chicken house, and then, after all the chickens are dead, promoting the fox to Chief of Chicken Procurement. This type of thing seems to be a feature and not a bug of the current state of our kleptocracy.

dave said...

atleast the media is doing their job by keeping the people informed about how our government is deliberately trying to destroy the post office.

Roger Erickson said...

That's their plan for the US government too, privatize formerly democratic government.

paul meli said...

Roger: privatize formerly democratic government

We'll live in a libertarian paradise then.

A world where 1 out of a 1000 people will have a decent quality of life.

Meet our new overlords…same as the old ones.