Galraedia
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Sun Dec-04-11 08:11 PM
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How Republicans Crippled the United States Postal Service |
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Run time: 03:06
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bjh8k-mtA
Posted on YouTube: December 05, 2011
By YouTube Member: Licentiathe8th
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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?
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ashling
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Sun Dec-04-11 08:23 PM
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Sun Dec-04-11 09:23 PM
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5. I heard about this on my evening news,,,,, NOT! |
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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.
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Sun Dec-04-11 08:27 PM
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2. Issa's behind it. Need we say more? |
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If Congress passed that law about funding pensions, it can be changed. By someone who has balls. Or ovaries.
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Sun Dec-04-11 09:01 PM
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3. In the meantime, think of all the postal cost increases we have endured. |
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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?
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Sun Dec-04-11 09:17 PM
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4. Reneged on the pension deals |
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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.
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Mon Dec-05-11 12:25 AM
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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.
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Sun Dec-04-11 10:41 PM
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Watch the vid, and weep. :-( :cry:
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Mon Dec-05-11 10:17 AM
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8. They're coming for your retirement money.... |
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...so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
-- George Carlin, American prophet.
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