Why is he refusing to help the Post Office, which is in financial crisis? 2/ https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1248747452653584385">https://twitter.com/ewarren/s...
One answer is that in 2016 oil&gas gave 88% of its contributions to Republicans https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=E01">https://www.opensecrets.org/industrie... while postal unions gave only 12 percent https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/totals.php?cycle=2020&ind=L1500">https://www.opensecrets.org/industrie... 3/
And postal workers are overwhelmingly unionized https://about.usps.com/strategic-planning/cs09/CSPO_09_093.htm">https://about.usps.com/strategic... while mining, including oil&gas, is basically un-unionized 4/ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm">https://www.bls.gov/news.rele...
Also, the world& #39;s two top oil exporters are Saudi Arabia and Russia, so Trump is helping his favorite autocrats; meanwhile, he believes that the post office is subsidizing Jeff Bezos, whose newspaper reports uncomfortable truths 5/
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