You
Better Wait
A Minute!
 The
U.S. Postal Service has its share of problems but
I cannot imagine this country without it. I always
smile when I send a letter, one whose ultimate destination
is hundreds of miles away, for nothing more than pocket
change.
FedEx and UPS even use the USPS to deliver
its
packages
the "last mile", so even they think it's
a bargain.
So what's wrong with the USPS? Why is it billions of
dollars in the hole? Four words:
George W. Fucking Bush.
You see, in 2006 a Congressional mandate was passed
requiring the USPS to fully pre-fund its future retiree
health
benefits
for
the next 75 years, but gave them only ten years to
do it. It is the only federal agency required to do
so. If not for this ridiculous rule the USPS would
still be profitable. Very profitable.
Sound insane? Not if your plan is to have the
Postal Service default, at which time you gain control
of the fat jackpot of billions and billions in pension
funds.
"Control" as in, "shovel it into the pockets
of your rich friends as fast as humanly possible".
If that sounds far-fetched then you obviously don't
remember
how the courts and the feds raped
the airline pensions in 2005.
And that, dear friends, is what's wrong with the Postal
Service.
The answer, some suggest, and I agree, is to allow
the pre-funding to come from pension surpluses
instead of operating funds.
Keep in mind that not one tax dollar goes to running the USPS and its pension
fund
is
already
overpaid by an estimated $50 billion dollars. Let's not lose this Constitutionally
mandated
program just because a cabal of greedy bastards see an opportunity to get a lot
richer.
For more on this take a moment to hear the America Postal Worker Union president's side
of the story on the Ed Show.
What? You think you'd ever see him on Fox News? Silly humans.
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #67 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011. None,
sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(67) 8-17-2011: Republicans Darrell Issa and Dennis
Ross introduced a bill in July that would accelerate
the destruction
of the USPS and put all of its employees, hundreds
of thousands of good Americans, out of work.
Fuck Darrell Issa and fuck Dennis Ross! Fuck 'em until
their ancestors rise from the dead and beg forgiveness
for ever having sired the malevolent little deviates.
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