Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak
Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak
During a remote appearance at a technology conference in San Francisco, Musk told attendees the U.S. should privatize "as much as possible."
They already tried this in LA with privatizing the public transportation system back in the 50’s. The big car companies bought it all and dismantled it in favor of selling their cars.
Most of Amtrak loses money except for the NE corridor. So if you privatize Amtrak it means even worse service and eventually no trains where it is not profitable.
Same with privatization of the USPS, it just means less services for a higher price until they decide to close it altogether because email will replace letters altogether. Say good by to any privacy since all email is monitored and capitalized for marketing.
Fuck fElon Muskrat.
You know who wants to replace the postal service? Amazon. They have delivery vehicles, lockers, and so on. They have been building towards it for years. I'm sure an attack on the postal service would leave Amazon on top, and I bet it's a plan in the works.
As for Amtrak, maybe musk wants to swallow it up with his boring company.
What a surprise given the fuckery he pulled with Hyperloop and California high speed rail
This has been a fever dream of Republicans for my entire life. Looks like they just may get it this time.
They want to eliminate or control the Postal Service so that they can eliminate mail-in voting. Their added bonus is padding the pockets of fellow millionaires and billionaires.
Privatize deez nutz, bitch
This is exactly the shit that will give permanent erections to the cons.
And people should not call this shit "Trumpism" - this is who the Republicans are and what the Republican project has always been. They HATE the idea of a functioning society for all. Next up, we're going to hear how education should be handed over to the Devos family. You know, for "choice".
No one asked you, prickasaurus rex. Go back to your hovel and tweet angrily at the news like a good boy
Don't do that. Grrmany did. Did not end so Well.
It's time to strike some fear in Elon's heart. He's fucking around, he's going to find out.
AmTrak is a hill I am willing to die for on.
Nationalize Amazon.
He doesn't understand the second 'S' in USPS. Stable genius.
Vital US services shouldn't be privatized! You remember when firefighting companies extorted people to put out fires? If you didn't have their symbol out front or weren't current on your payments, they would just watch your home burn down...
He'll find those already government run in Russia. Perhaps he should consider relocating to that shithole and leave the United States the fuck alone.
Sounds like “somebody” is about to launch Xmail and AmtraX, coincidentally of course
tl;Dr fuck off and eat shit, idiot
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Amtrak is private, though. It's publicly subsidized, but it's not a government agency AFAIK. Same for the post office. Part of the problem with Amtrak, though, is that the state of passenger rail in the US is still down in the septic tank, largely due to almost 100 years of government subsidized car-centric development and heavily subsidized air transit development. You'd have a very hard time attracting private investors interested in a conventional passenger rail mass transit scheme, I think.
Also, everybody benefits, even this fucking douche, when public transit is high quality and affordable. Even if a private company did offer high quality, affordable mass transit, the insatiable drive for ever increasing profits will eventually cause them to enshittify one or both and put us right back here. This is really just another attempt to transfer public wealth into private portfolios, though it's a little more of a joke compared to privatization efforts in Europe because we basically haven't been investing at all in public transit for the last fifty years
we already have FedEx for that.