How Republicans Crippled the United States Postal Service

[Galraedia]

Run time: 03:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bjh8k-mtA   Posted on YouTube: December 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: Licentiathe8th Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 05, 2011 By DU Member: Galraedia Views on DU: 2045

 
Why let a self-funding government agency flourish when you can privatize it and make your corporate cronies even richer?

[ashling]

1. I posted this earlier

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9838598

[benld74]

5. I heard about this on my evening news,,,,, NOT!

NOT a damn word, inuendo, iota. Nothing, squat, nada, zilch.
Nothing on HOW they got to the situation they are in, JUST the situation they are in.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Issa's behind it. Need we say more?

If Congress passed that law about funding pensions, it can be changed. By someone who has balls. Or ovaries.

[snappyturtle]

3. In the meantime, think of all the postal cost increases we have endured.

They, the P.O., should have known that increases were not enough to fund the mandate. What happens to the postal pensions once the USPs is privatized?

[usrname]

4. Reneged on the pension deals

The private company will come in and take the pensions, spend it all and when it really is time for the workers to retire, say, "oops (Rick Perry's voice), we lost the pension money."

This is nothing more than bald-faced kleptocracy.

[KT2000]

7. the postal employees

always knew that nothing would cover the outrageous requirement for pension funding.
I was not aware when this was passed but I wonder how the executives at the Postal Service testified about it.

[luv_mykatz]

6. Wow! Just...wow.

Watch the vid, and weep. :-( :cry:

[izquierdista]

8. They're coming for your retirement money....

...so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

-- George Carlin, American prophet.