Day: August 15, 2009

Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield

Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield — Pennsylvania will no longer fund Brandywine Battlefield, a 52-acre paradise of very historic open space in Chadds Ford. Operations are now the responsibility of the Brandywine Battlefield Park Associates, which is an association of volunteers.

Again we pay more and get less. The Pennsylvania budget has increased from $35.8 billion in 1998-99 — when there was no issue about funding the Battlefield — to $61.3 billion in 2008-09.

Parks — and maintaining historical sites — are one of the few areas in which government generally does a better job than the private sector.

Pa. To Cut Funds To Brandywine Battlefield

Springfield P.O. Will Move

It’s official, the Springfield Post Office that has graced Brookside Road in thePennsylvania Township for more than five decades is going to be moved to a yet-to-be identified location on Baltimore Pike. Also, the post office annex in the Springfield Mall will be closed.

Springfield has long been a non-delivery facility with mail addressed tothe 19064 Zip Code being trucked from the Media Annex on Route 452 inMiddletown Township.

The idea is to save money but do you really expect to see a cut in cost of postage — or your taxes? Not on this planet.

So, the bottom line is that there is going to be a decrease in service while we are charged the same if not more.

And the Democrats wonder why we object to the government takeover of health care that they are trying to foist on us.

By the way, the Post Office has a legal monopoly with regard to the delivery of most mail. A minor change in the law — which Congress has the power to do — would allow competition which would see a huge decrease in cost and a great increase in efficiency.

Sort of what happened when UPS and FedEX began competing with the delivery of packages and urgent letters.