LB's Postal Facility to be Closed, by Sam Sabzehzar

Long Beach Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske sent out an alert email Thursday (Sept. 15) encouraging Long Beach residents to contact their elected officials in an effort to save Long Beach jobs.

Unfortunately, the move comes too little too late, as Long Beach has been picked to have one of 250 facilities nation-wide to close.

According to Democracy Now!, "The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a plan to eliminate up to 35,000 jobs as part of an ongoing effort to avoid collapse. The $3 billion cost-cutting move would also see the closure of more than 250 mail-processing sites and the downsizing of the postal service’s transportation network nationwide."

When unregulated banking is blamed (again), rather than social services, teachers, unions, or anything else that the Tea-Party has been able to shout louder than, perhaps our local politicians will re-focus on what they think we should be petitioning our elected officials to do.

Packaging loans that should never have been given out in the first place as a solid "AAA" rating was a much larger problem than a reinvestment in our cities all across America, but instead, we are hurting citizens in all of these cities, and Long Beach just lost more jobs.

Long Beach isn't business-friendly enough to lose government jobs as well, and while I thank the Councilwoman for looking out for the citizens in her city, I hope the rest of the council can focus on the real issues, and stop attacking the very victims of the largest fraud in the history of Capitalism.

Tuition hikes, pension cuts, and dismantling public services will not win voters over anyway, but it may see the selection of politicians to the private sector.

Time will tell who our own elected officials are really looking out for, and when they kill with a thousand cuts their own people, we don't have to look very hard.