Some people may have noticed that mailboxes, which had been in their neighborhoods literally for decades have recently disappeared. Well, it turns out that any mailbox that gets less than 25 pieces of mail per week is in danger of being uprooted.

It’s true people under age 70 overwhelmingly use e-mail for everything, and that people are likely paying their bills online or by some automatic deductions. This means a big drop in mail, but it seems silly to take away mailboxes. Why not just collect mail from them less often? This move seems to be a largely symbolic act by the Feds. Our government isn’t able to repaint a white line on a road without spending thousand of dollars. I would not be surprised one bit if it cost thousands of dollars in labor and bureaucracy to remove each mailbox.

A Reuters article reports “The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it is closing six of its 80 district offices. In addition, administrative staff positions at district level nationwide are being reduced by 15 percent and nearly 150,000 employees nationwide being given opportunity to take an early retirement. More than 1,400 mail processing supervisor and management positions are also being eliminated.”

Early retirement usually means significantly less pension in most jobs. It also means 150,000 less postal workers, so the long lines at the post office will get even worse.

But far more interesting are the political and financial implications of this little article. At a time when Obama and his Jewish handlers are running the presses creating more and more paper money (along with rampant inflation) and borrowing up to their fetlocks from the Communist Chinese, of all people, and at a time when they are hurling billions of dollars at a time at every bank and every Democrat pork project under the sun, actual human beings are being kicked off the federal payroll.

Now, this is almost a 180-degree contradiction to normal liberal and Democrat principles, which dictate hire, hire, hire, (especially women and minorities) and grow government to gigantic proportions so that they get that many more voters and their families committed to them. Democrats buy their loyalty. A good example is the ghastly National Education Association (NEA), the nationwide teachers’ union that in many places makes direct deductions from teachers’ salaries for the union which exclusively supports Democrats and who are largely credited with forming the ground troops who twice inflicted the unspeakable Clintons on this country.

So why are the Democrats spending hundreds of billions of dollars in an effort to “stimulate” the economy while cutting the existing federal workforce? It used to be you had to be caught committing an unnatural act with a llama in the city zoo in order to be fired from the Post Office, and even then the pervert might still keep his job. Now they’re dumping 150,000 postal workers?

No, really, why are they doing this? The cost of these people’s salaries is tiny compared to the 787 billion dollar “stimulus” plan and the multi-trillion-dollar budget. What’s going on here? Simple incompetence? If the Feds want to create jobs for people why not start with KEEPING the existing jobs? I suspect we’ll see a lot more bizarre confusing moves in the near future because –despite all the hype– Obama really isn’t that bright and he’s never run anything before. He’s just another Democrat politician from the most corrupt political machine in the world (Chicago). We expect to see patronage and corruption, but maybe we should expect to see blundering and and mismanagement too.

by James Buchanan

Here in America, the two-party system usually weeds out anyone, who is even the tiniest bit objectionable to the wire-pullers in charge. Idealistic men like Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul are invariably kicked aside in the primary system. Often the primaries are blatantly stolen, but nothing is ever done to expose and punish the vote thieves.

It therefore may come as a shock to Americans that White people in Austria are being allowed to vote for someone who wants to stop the Third World invasion of Austria and who has a long track record of patriotism and the support for free speech (which most Europeans don't have). That person is Barbara Rosenkranz, an outspoken patriot, who has had to fight an oppressive government and who even had her pastor giving her grief for her belief in freedom and keeping Austria for the Austrians.