Beat the Ptess is dumber than a mushroom

Beat the Press is trying to tell us why Congress subsidizes Amazon:

There actually is a very simple explanation for the differing assessments. The Postal Service has a huge amount of fixed costs in the form of retiree benefits and especially retiree health benefits. Congress has required that the Postal Service prefund 75 years of retiree health benefits. This requirement sets the Postal Service apart from private businesses, who do little or no prefunding of retiree health benefits. It also accounts for almost all of the Postal Service's losses over the last decade.

Well, this must be a Dean Baker bonehead play.  He discovers that the Post Office has losses because it has high labor expenses.   That is exactly the point, why is Congress paying for Amazon labor? 

What a frggen idiot. His implication  is that it is OK to use taxpayer money and give it to Jeff Bozo.  That is like saying it is OK for Jerry Brown to take energy from efficient users and give it to inefficient users, which Dean certainly approves of. In  one case, Dean wants taxpayers to write huge checks to Elon, in another wants huge taxpayer checks to eff.

Somethings are just stupid, and Dean Baker can make shit up all he wants, but somethings are simply stupid.  Especially Dean telling poor folks to write large checks to wealthy folks.