Ed Shultz exposing the raiding of Post Office funds

[flamingdem]

Zero, not one penny of your tax dollars goes to the Post Office.
It's fully funded by purchase of stamps and related

Since 2006 when the legislation passed they've had to fund their health insurance going
forward at 6 billion a year.

Money that's been collected since 2006 - is it going to where it's supposed to go?
The law require prefunding of health insurance going out 75 years
But now they are overfunded and this money has been collected but they
say to PO "we can't give you back the overages, it's against the law"

Congress doesn't want to raise the debt limit - so they raid the funds.

** And for this CA has lose our beautiful WPA Post Offices!

repukes..

[russspeakeasy]

1. He has Bernie Sanders on his side and that's about it.

It's disgusting...

[Cooley Hurd]

2. There are so MANY WPA architectural treasures

[flamingdem]

3. I'm heartbroken about it

Going to ours is a bi-weekly ritual. It will be closing soon and with it goes a treasure. If they put a Starbucks in it I will be out there with a picket sign!

[Cooley Hurd]

4. I hope your PO is spared!

[flamingdem]

5. Last summer they began to leak out the info that it would close

It was supposed to be closed in January but for some reason it's not yet.

No one knows anything. It's probably just a delay while they get the super ugly place prepared for the move of the rest of the employees. We can't fight to keep it as a historical landmark because it's Federal. It will go to the highest bidder and up until now it's been Diane Feinstein's husband brokering these sales.. making a bundle.

[fascisthunter]

6. We are Witnessing a Hostile Takeover by corporate powers and the economic class

they keep fed to blindly follow their ideology of greed, control and the dismantling of our democracy. They know that privatizing will one day render elections irrelevant. There is no democracy left.

In retrospect the totalitarian USSR kept these people in check. Ironic.

[flamingdem]

7. The bourgeois

or was it another class?

[fascisthunter]

8. It's just those who can't accept the truth

Imagine somebody living well, paid well being told their whole existence was built on an illusion, and that their very beliefs were actually destroying their own country. A hard pill to swallow. True patriots will come around and be willing to accept the ugly truth, but in doing so, they will have to give up their own selfish existence of wealth and what they have been brainwashed into thinking as "success".

[timdog44]

9. Although

I fear it won't help, I have written my Senator Durbin to complain about this and to halt it.

[flamingdem]

10. Thank you. I will write to Diane Feinstein

just to remind her I'm pissed!

[timdog44]

11. Good job.

They all should know we are pissed. For lots of reasons.

[blondie58]

12. if this happens, you can count on your mail and packages being

WAY more expensive. If it is able to get there at all.

Call your representatives.

I am a proud retired member of NALC branch #47 in Colorado. So glad to be out of the stressful environment, but I am worried about my friends.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. "Shut It Down! Shut It Down!" cry our paid-off Congresscritters.

And who do you suppose are paying them to say this ???