Another flawed analogy from Thomas Sowell, a man who worships the free market. This time a lousy car compared to the post office in his June 3 column, “U.S. post office a bottomless pit for taxpayers’ dollars.” Sowell will never understand the difference from a society that takes care of its people and a product built for profit. The post office supplies society with a means to deliver necessary medicine, money, etc., to rural areas that would never get them from UPS or FedEx. The post office participates in local food drives. The post office gives cities their identity.
Free market capitalism supplies profit for the few. Jobs created are for self-interest, also of those few. Unfortunately, Sowell like so many, thinks profit is the only motive for doing anything.
Bill Kelley
Yacolt
