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Despite what right wing media claims, FEMA, when not under the thumb of a GOP idiot, does a fine and admirable job in most cases.
In general the federal government is actually more efficient than most corporations. It's just that when the government does mess up, everyone points a spotlight on it and screams their head off, but when corporations fuck up massively, the corporate owned media does everything they can to sweep it under the nearest available rug.
They're also accountable and have to do work that a corporation wouldn't do. Sure, the US postal service costs a lot of money to run to some remote locations, but a corporation just fucking wouldn't. Yeah, you can save some expenses by not doing the job to completion. Is that really what we want to measure though? Is profit the goal, or is doing the best job possible the goal?
USPS was actually profitable, and still is. The Republicans in Congress just wrote a rule in the '00s that they have to have their pension fund stocked at a 300% level, like no corporation has ever had to do.
Profitable, but not as profitable as it could be. I personally don't think it should be profitable though, but they're required to by stupid Republicans, and those same people stop them from doing things that make them profitable so they can eventually privatize it.