Elections have consequences.
Back last month, House Minority Leader John Boehner made the following comment about government-run health care options:
“Listen, if you like going to the DMV and you think they do a great job, or you like going to the post office and think it’s the most efficient thing you’ve run into, then you’ll love the government-run health care system that they’re proposing because that’s basically what you’re going to have,”
…to which a variety of people who do, indeed, love the DMV/Post Office as examples of government-run agencies reacted in various levels of reflexively sardonic befuddlement. The DMV comparison was usually skipped over, in favor of the USPS: after all, what’s wrong with them? 44 cents for a stamp, send it out, gets where it’s going. Great, right?
Sure. Until they can’t make payroll. Continue reading USPS at risk at not making payroll?