Katherine Mangu-Ward on HuffPost Live Talking Post Office Privatization

This afternoon, Reason Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward talked about Post Office privatization on HuffPost Live with a bunch of people who really, really, really love the U.S. Postal Service. 

Run time: Approx. 30 minutes.

Comments

[Ryan60657]

Kudos to Katherine for doing a good job holding her own against the socialists.

[mr simple]

Wait, did he just correct himself from two hundred and twenty thousand to two hundred and twenty hundred thousand? Doesn't bode well for the whole conversation.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

KM-W a life raft of sanity afloat on a roiling sea of retardation.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

KOCH!!!!!

[LTC(ret) John]

"a bunch of people who really, really, really love the U.S. Postal Service."

So it was USPS employees then?

[Stormy Dragon]

The USPS already is privatized. It needs to be deregulated, not privatized.

[Redmanfms]

Umm. It's private in the same vein as any other GSE. It isn't truly private when the taxpayer is on the hook for budget shortfalls.

[Redmanfms]

Annnnndddddd, when postal workers are federal employees that are party to the federal pension structure.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Not to be a paranoid weirdo, but who are these people on this panel? I swear to god, they must be Soviet plants. Even finding info on their backgrounds through Google is murky. KM-W is easily identifiable with clear information from her Google search. The other panelists are obscure, with sketchy information on the internet.

Does that make me paranoid?

[SKR]

just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[albo]

No, it doesn't. You're fine.

*checks CCTV screen*

By the way, you need to water your plants, they look dry

[derpules]

So regulation is good for private companies but bad for public services... got it.

[mr simple]

Even with your outburst you were incredibly well-behaved, KMW. I would have just yelled at them "You're making shit up!" There was way too much derp in that panel to comment on it effectively.

[VG Zaytsev]

LOL

They couldn't get 10 seconds in without blaming BOOOOOOSSHHHH!!1!!!11

[TheSporadical]

I would have liked to have heard if the other panelists would at least allow the monopoly on First Class Mail to be lifted so that we can allow private competitors to expand their service and then provide evidence for or against their ability to replace the USPS coverage/service.

[VG Zaytsev]

Dave Johnson is a fucking moron.

We the people are being forced to cut back for billionaires

And KOOOOCH

[VG Zaytsev]

These jackholes illustrate the essentially reactionary nature of modern 'progressives'.

[VG Zaytsev]

One fucking idiot literally says that the great thing about the USPS is that they overpay and overstaff.

[Sam Grove]

Katherine, aren't you glad you didn't have to share airspace with them?

[Sam Grove]

OK, I think Dave Johnson has a problem, his left leg doesn't stride as far as the right, so he keeps turning left.