Quote Originally Posted by elganned View Post
The thrust of government is to provide service to the nation that it deems both necessary and beneficial. Thus, the postal service need not make money in order to fulfill the role set for it be the government.

Government is not a business, it is a service.
And the services government provides tend to be money-losers, so that private industry doesn't have to lose their ass providing them.

For example, do you think the airlines would embrace paying for airports and the air traffic control system? Now that I think about it, let's get rid of that too. I'm tired of the government wasting my tax dollars on schemes that keep airplanes from crashing into each other. What a waste!