As I posted Saturday, on New Republic's website, I read an article about the USPS Inspector General concluding that the Postal Service has the authority to establish a postal banking system to serve communities without access to commercial banking. This would have two salutory effects: First, it would provide those services at a lower cost than are provided by the predatory companies involved in payday loans and the like; second, it would provide a source of revenue that would allow the USPS to cope with the ridiculous financial requirements imposed upon it by Congress, thereby allowing it to continue to provide postal service to us all. The New Republic article is found at:
http://www.newrepublic.com/...
After reading the article, it occurred to me that this would be an appropriate subject for a whitehouse.gov petition. Finding that no such petition existed, I created one.
The way that it works is that there must be 150 votes in favor of it before it is visible to the public at large. Then, there must be 100,000 votes in favor of it by March 3, 2014, to provoke a White House response. As it says on the site:
Right now only you know this unique URL. Share it with others to get more signatures on this petition. Until your petition reaches 150 signatures, it will not be publicly viewable on the Open Petitions section of We the People, so be sure to share this URL:
Short URL: http://wh.gov/...
Save and Share this URL: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
So, I urge everyone to click on the URL's, sign the petition, and let's see if we can get this done. We have 77 signatures so far; let's see if we can get over 150 and go from there.