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Post office run like a private business???
Our government masters tell us the Post Office is run like a private business. That is 100 percent BS. The Post Office is just a government welfare program for the overpaid under worked government bureaucrats who work their. I wonder what alleged Libertarian Mike Dugger has to say about this. While Mike Dugger claims to be a Libertarian, he has been a life time employee of the U.S. Post office. That's the same Mike Dugger who used to shout "we have principles" at Libertarian Party meeting when talking about those phony baloney Tucson Libertarians who created the phony baloney ALP Inc. Yea, Mike, if you have "principles" why are you working for the government? $11 billion boost to Postal Service clears Senate by Hope Yen - Apr. 25, 2012 10:37 PM Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery. By a 62-37 vote, senators approved a measure that had divided mostly along rural-urban lines. Arizona Republicans Jon Kyl and John McCain voted against it. Over the past several weeks, the bill was modified more than a dozen times, adding restrictions on closings and cuts to service that rural-state senators said would hurt their communities the most. The issue now goes to the House, which has yet to consider a separate version of the bill. "The Postal Service is an iconic American institution that still delivers 500 million pieces of mail a day and sustains 8 million jobs," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., a bill co-sponsor. "This legislation will change the USPS so it can stay alive throughout the 21st century." The mail agency, however, criticized the measure, saying it fell far short in stemming financial losses. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said if the bill became law, he would have to return to Congress in a few years to get emergency help. "It is totally inappropriate in these economic times to keep unneeded facilities open. There is simply not enough mail in our system today," the Postal Service's board of governors said. "It is also inappropriate to delay the implementation of five-day delivery." The Senate bill would halt the immediate closing of up to 252 mail-processing centers and 3,700 post offices, part of a postal cost-cutting plan to save $6.5 billion a year. Donahoe previously said he would begin making cuts after May 15 if Congress didn't act, warning that the agency could run out of money this fall. The measure would save about half the mail-processing centers the Postal Service wants to close, from 252 to 125, allowing more areas to maintain overnight first-class mail delivery for at least three more years. It also would bar any shutdowns before the November elections, protect rural post offices for at least a year, give affected communities new avenues to appeal closing decisions and forbid cuts to Saturday delivery for two years. At the same time, the Postal Service would get an infusion of roughly $11 billion, basically a refund of overpayments made in previous years to a federal retirement fund. That would give it immediate liquidity to pay down debt to forestall bankruptcy and finance buyouts to 100,000 postal employees. |