WIN’s Doug Cunningham on the Thom Hartmann show talks with Thom about the U.S. postal service and the unusual requirement to pre-pay billions of dollars for postal service retiree health care. The increasing use of exorbitantly expensive private contractors to do postal work is endangering public services like the postal service, eroding the whole concept of the “commons” and the public good. Also mentioned – the movement in California and other states for progressive taxes to support public services and the mass firings of teachers at the Central falls, Rhode Island high school.