Democrats can do what rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail could not

According to an article I read today in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Post Office took it's first steps to 5 day service in order to close a $7 billion budget gap.

In other words, there will be "mail rationing". Of course, this will not happen with healthcare. So don't even worry...

The Post Office employees over 650,000 people. I don't know if any of them will be let go. Or will salaries be frozen, raises suspended, benefits cut... what am I saying... this is government. And they are a protected class. After all, the Postmaster General, Mr. John Potter (or is it The Honorable John Potter??) earned a salary of $800k last year (not including benefits). And why wouldn't he? It's not like he's a greedy Wall Street fat cat. He's a noble civil servant and we should pay off his student loans, too (just assuming you remember the SOTU).

It's interesting to watch the Post Office's operational and financial struggles in light of our pending healthcare panacea. See- the Post Office provides a service- and rather than cut overhead or personnel, they cut the very service they provide.

Odd, isn't it. I wonder who'd continue to go to a restaurant if the prices went up but the portions shrunk. Or if the only ironed half your suit. Normally when services are cut, a free society changes service providers. Of course we can't do this in places where government allows monopolies like energy, phone, cable TV or transportation. Some ingenious people tried to do this with education- a little thing called vouchers- but Democrats try their hardest to keep that monopoly too.

The Post Office debacle is a prelude to Obamacare. It will run out of money. It will become exhausted, overrun, over burdened and perpetually under financed. Because Congress does not appropriate enough money? No one could appropriate enough money. ever bring free donuts to an office meeting? You always run out. Trolls and goons you've never seen emerge from hidden cubicles to partake of the free donut. Wait till it's free dental, free MRI, free everything... suddenly everyone needs a CAT scan.

So what will happen when Obamacare runs out of money, i.e., the inevitable future? It will cut service. It will ration care. It has to; it is inevitable. Elective surgery will be denied. Voluntary procedures will not be allowed. And a sliding scale of priorities established by a committee will be determined.

LASIK surgery costs about $4000 out of pocket. Insurance providers do not cover it. It is a "preexisting condition". Under Obamacare, it will be covered. It is, indeed, a RIGHT. Suddenly everyone will want the expensive procedure. But the $4000 will no escalate to $12,000. And a bureaucrat in an office in DC will make the decision who does and who does not get LASIK.

Remember that when you look for your mail on Saturday morning.

And get LASIK before the year's end.