Dear Liberal Government:

I understand that your Chicago Schooled brains may find this difficult to understand, as your whole worlds revolve around capitalist economics, but here's a little tip for you, a word in your shell-like ears.

The purpose of the post office is to deliver mail.

It's not supposed to make money! Charges and fees are meant to defray the costs of running it, most of which are gathered through taxes and apportioned through Parliament. This is not rocket science! Not everything has to be financially solvent! The returns from the delivery of mail, especially to rural Canadians, far and away outweigh the cost of service!

I swear to fuck, fiscal conservatives will throw away a $100 to save a dime.

#canpoli #mail #canadapost #economics

Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.

However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.

Stop this madness.

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

am reading posts about some dingbats in #Canada stoking the #CanadaPost is not profitable fires, and i feel like am taking crazy pills; because nobody is saying the obvious: this is the same playbook used for the past 50 years in the UK and USA.

shut that corporatist #fascism shit down immediately or y’all end up with a Brexit and Trump of your own.

government isn’t a corporation.

the only people who want to run government as a private corporation, enriching the few, are fascists.

Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.

We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.

Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement!
#cdnpoli #canadapost

Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.

However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.

Stop this madness.

#CanPoli #CanadaPost

Dear Liberal Government:

I understand that your Chicago Schooled brains may find this difficult to understand, as your whole worlds revolve around capitalist economics, but here's a little tip for you, a word in your shell-like ears.

The purpose of the post office is to deliver mail.

It's not supposed to make money! Charges and fees are meant to defray the costs of running it, most of which are gathered through taxes and apportioned through Parliament. This is not rocket science! Not everything has to be financially solvent! The returns from the delivery of mail, especially to rural Canadians, far and away outweigh the cost of service!

I swear to fuck, fiscal conservatives will throw away a $100 to save a dime.

#canpoli #mail #canadapost #economics

And with a thud felt on every doorstep, the Austerity Times of Mark Carney's Liberal government lands.

Massive layoffs on the way in the public service, likely starting at Canada Post.

Everyone remembers what came after the government of the last austerity-Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin*, right? RIGHT?

(shockingly, also a "Finance Guy”)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Economy #CanadaPost #Liberalism #Centrism #Rightwing #Pandering #EndStageCapitalism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-transformation-changes-1.7643345

am reading posts about some dingbats in #Canada stoking the #CanadaPost is not profitable fires, and i feel like am taking crazy pills; because nobody is saying the obvious: this is the same playbook used for the past 50 years in the UK and USA.

shut that corporatist #fascism shit down immediately or y’all end up with a Brexit and Trump of your own.

government isn’t a corporation.

the only people who want to run government as a private corporation, enriching the few, are fascists.

Canada Post is a service, not a consumer product. The idea that it operates at a "loss" is stupid. It's like saying schools operate at a loss; hospitals operate at a loss; roads operate at a loss; sewers operates at a loss.

We pay for public services collectively, because they are simply needed for our society for function and for everyone to have (relatively) equal access to participate in culture/society/democracy.

Stop reducing necessary services to an income statement!
#cdnpoli #canadapost

And with a thud felt on every doorstep, the Austerity Times of Mark Carney's Liberal government lands.

Massive layoffs on the way in the public service, likely starting at Canada Post.

Everyone remembers what came after the government of the last austerity-Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin*, right? RIGHT?

(shockingly, also a "Finance Guy”)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Economy #CanadaPost #Liberalism #Centrism #Rightwing #Pandering #EndStageCapitalism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-transformation-changes-1.7643345