It’s part of the “shoot fist, ask questions later” mentality – the decision by Louis DeJoy, the Trump holdover who is ready to buy 148,000 gasoline powered Postal Service trucks in defiance of the President’s policy to go to electric vehicles. On top of that, he has made sure the USPS will pay $120 million to the company he headed and to which his family still has ties.
Not only that, he chose the vehicle model designed to spit even more carbon into our atmosphere. On top of that, DeJoy chose trucks over the mileage requirement. This Cretan should be investigated by Congress and fired. How is it possible that he still holds his position?
He holds it by virtue of a Board of Governors who have the ultimate say on his job. But still, he has a major conflict of interest here. It sounds like a little thing compared to all the other issues we face as a society. But small problems have a way of growing into large ones.
Prayer for the Day
Recognizing that we have often stumbled and fallen,
We come to ask your mercy and forgiveness;
Burned by the sun at day and unsettled by the moon at night,
We have often failed you as well as ourselves.
Heal us, O God, and make us whole so we become,
Faithful witnesses of your justice and peace.
In the name of him who was your most faithful witness,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for. Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamor of the world.
- Dolores Huerta, labor organizer
We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.
- Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader (1912-1987)
Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.
Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen.
Tell us the former things, what they are so we may consider them,
And that we may know their outcome, or declare to us the things to come.
Isaiah 41: 21-22