# Don't Let Business Lobbyists Kill the Post Office

<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/dont-let-business-lobbyists-kill-the-post-office-20120423>

- Host: [rollingstone.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/rollingstone.com/)
- Saved: May 9, 2012 (2012-05-09T15:14:39Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5547165625fc/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5547165625fc.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

The transparent purpose of this law, which was pushed heavily by industry lobbyists, was to break a public sector union and privatize the mail industry. Before the 2006 act, the postal service did one thing, did it well, and, minus the need to generate profits and bonuses for executives, did it cheaply. It paid for itself and was not a burden to taxpayers.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

- [Michele Bachmann's Holy War](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/934600cf6058/) (rollingstone.com, June 24, 2011)
- [OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4bb16399aca7/) (rollingstone.com, October 26, 2011)
- [Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/835634dab834/) (rollingstone.com, January 20, 2012)
- [Lawrence Lessig on How Money Corrupts Congress - and How to Stop It](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a24a1c3efb16/) (rollingstone.com, January 23, 2012)
- [Accidentally Released Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ef84cd3b16df/) (rollingstone.com, June 4, 2012)

## Saved the same week

- [Jim Bernard - How to Manage A Softball Team to a Perfect Record](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/701f493b2e51/) (youtube.com, May 8, 2012)
- [Journalism: Dying by a thousand cuts, or being reinvented?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6285b9fa8df4/) (gigaom.com, May 9, 2012)
- [Cloud Data Protection Solution](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fd250dbca84b/) (web7.creativebasic.com, May 9, 2012)
- [MediaWiki Git Workflow](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dd7917730540/) (mediawiki.org, May 9, 2012)
- [Coderetreat - Honing the craft together worldwide](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c0345a3b9023/) (coderetreat.org, May 9, 2012)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/dont-let-business-lobbyists-kill-the-post-office-20120423