LETTER TO ELIJAH CUMMINGS VIA E-MAIL

The United States Postal service will be closing less profitable branches. I listened to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) on the Rachael Maddow show as hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry. The show filled me with disgust. Cummings, who represents much of the city of Baltimore, was talking in support of the closings branches of the post offices “because they are less profitable”. Thus, he joins with Rep. Darrell Issa, the radical from a remote district in California. Issa wants to destroy the Post Office to make room for private business: FedEx, UPS, and DHL. The position taken by these men tells me that neither understands the most basic principle of government; the government exists to do what we cannot do for ourselves. Whether he understands or not does not matter to Issa, who wants to destroy the government so his motive is a little different from that of Cummings. Issa bases his action on greed—the ugly driving force of Republicanism. Cummings, a Democrat, and should understand but may be blinded by where he lives . . . in a big city. People in rural area need and deserve the affordable delivery service the U. S. Post Office provides. They live in remote area, which is what rural means; therefore, the private letter and package services do not provide service because they cannot make a big profit: they have to travel a goodly distance to deliver one package.  What is the reason the Post Master General is closing the branches he is closing? It is because they are not profitable. This is in direct conflict with the reason our founding father established the post office and put it in our Constitution. 

Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of Political Science at Tulane University. Perhaps if she spent more time practicing her profession she would understand the purpose of the government. More important, she would make sure her students understand. After all, Tulane is in the deep Republican South, which needs a lesson in democracy. What she did not do was to land on Cummings with teeth and claws bared; she just sat there like a dummy; thus, gave all the nonsense credence.