Let's Sell Off the Post Office! Nick Gillespie on Varney & Co.

Earlier today, Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox Business' Varney & Co. to talk about privatizing the post office.

Airdate: May 11, 2011; about 4:45 minutes.

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Bonus tip for Lysander Spooner, Pony Express, and Crying of Lot 49 fans: Gillespie will be talking about the same topic tonight on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. The show airs 8PM to 9PM ET on Fox Business. Details.

Comments

[Abdul]

While it wouldn't break my heart to privatize USPS, it is one of the agencies that is explicitly mentioned in the constitution. In addition, privatizing it might violate international treaties which the US has signed.

[Brandybuck]

Establishing post offices is a power of congress, that is a different thing than saying the government has to run all post offices via the USPS.

The same clause that authorizes post offices also authorizes post roads, but we never needed a United States Post Road Service.

[Libertymike]

Good point.

Does not the same reasoning apply to defense?

[Abdul]

We been privatizing that--Blackwater!

[Warty]

I thought I was the only one who hated fitted sheets.

[Colin]

They actually let him on set without the Jacket?

O the infamy!

[sarcasmic]

That was a jacket?

I thought it was a symbiotic being.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Was that Gillespie demonstrating how to use fitted sheets at the end?

[John from MS]

How about we start by allowing UPS, FedEx, DHL, and other private carriers handle first class mail.