Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:

• The U.S. Postal Service’s “automation refugees.”
• Earmarks: Just because the federal bureaucracy does an abysmal job of spending taxpayer money, it doesn’t mean lawmakers would do any better.
• Ground hasn’t been broken for California’s high-speed rail system, but it’s already a boondoggle.
• Hop aboard the Liberty Bus!
• Al Capone would have loved Medicare.