Any gov't agency that employs vets should have to pay their retirement. Dumping it all on the Treasury Dept shirks responsibility. If it causes rates to go up, then so be it. Your are responsible for your own. Period.
What kind of idiotic comment is that? There has never been a government agency that has been told to pay the retirement benefits that the Treasury is responsible for. There is no such program as "pay it forward" or you would see a line of unemployed vets miles long, and a caseload of hiring discrimination lawsuits against companies who wouldn't hire vets because of the retirement benefit payment. No, this was a budget smoke & mirrors move by Congress that came as a surprise to the USPS, after the initial audit by GAO came up in favor of the USPS. Now, Congress had to come up with a whole lot more money than ever expected. Just wait till the press starts to tell the story behind any POTENTIAL rate increases of double-digit percentages if Congress doesn't relieve the veterans benefit burden and stop having the USPS pay into escrow for a double retirement fund (FERS and CSRS). Those phone lines, email files and mailboxes will be stuffed in DC by the angry citizens demanding that Congress grow a spine and do what needs to be done.
Call me dumb but I thought that the USPS was the only "government" agency which did actually pay its employees out of its own pocket. Isn't everybody else paid by the tax payers through the treasury.
HMMMMMMMMMMM... Lets see... The Senate and Congress vote themselves a pay raise ALL the time, while NOT paying into Social Security, yet when they die, Their survivors can collect their pension and pass it to their children BUT the working Class and Vets get screwed again? YEP, they get the gold mine and we get the shaft!!!
Commenter 5:20 got it right. This whole thing is nothing but more Bush smoke and mirrors. If the Treasury Dept had to pay the obligation that is rightfully theirs, the zooming deficit would loom larger than it really is, and the public outcry against supporting the Halliburton welfare system in Iraq would really start in earnest.
The public may be fooled now, but they will be catching on to the games being played in Washington.The currently corrupt administration makes Whitewater look like a girl scout cookie sale, and we won't need to pay some witchhunter a half a billion dollars to find out the true story.Enjoy your time in power, you greedy neocons, because your time is running out.
Reagan was the first of the "new republicans" to use the Postal Service as a cash cow in order to hide the true budget deficits from the American people. Pray that Emperor W is the last.
"We are losing share in the overall delivery services market. Major corporations now dominate parcel and express markets. Under the current regulatory structure, competitors have far more flexibility to respond to changes in market conditions and to target specific customers than does the Postal Service."
More beautiful words have never been written before by the USPS" THE TRUTH. BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Any gov't agency that employs vets should have to pay their retirement. Dumping it all on the Treasury Dept shirks responsibility. If it causes rates to go up, then so be it. Your are responsible for your own. Period.
What kind of idiotic comment is that? There has never been a government agency that has been told to pay the retirement benefits that the Treasury is responsible for. There is no such program as "pay it forward" or you would see a line of unemployed vets miles long, and a caseload of hiring discrimination lawsuits against companies who wouldn't hire vets because of the retirement benefit payment. No, this was a budget smoke & mirrors move by Congress that came as a surprise to the USPS, after the initial audit by GAO came up in favor of the USPS. Now, Congress had to come up with a whole lot more money than ever expected. Just wait till the press starts to tell the story behind any POTENTIAL rate increases of double-digit percentages if Congress doesn't relieve the veterans benefit burden and stop having the USPS pay into escrow for a double retirement fund (FERS and CSRS). Those phone lines, email files and mailboxes will be stuffed in DC by the angry citizens demanding that Congress grow a spine and do what needs to be done.
Call me dumb but I thought that the USPS was the only "government" agency which did actually pay its employees out of its own pocket. Isn't everybody else paid by the tax payers through the treasury.
HMMMMMMMMMMM...
Lets see... The Senate and Congress vote themselves a pay raise ALL the time, while NOT paying into Social Security, yet when they die, Their survivors can collect their pension and pass it to their children BUT the working Class and Vets get screwed again?
YEP, they get the gold mine and we get the shaft!!!
Commenter 5:20 got it right. This whole thing is nothing but more Bush smoke and mirrors. If the Treasury Dept had to pay the obligation that is rightfully theirs, the zooming deficit would loom larger than it really is, and the public outcry against supporting the Halliburton welfare system in Iraq would really start in earnest.
The public may be fooled now, but they will be catching on to the games being played in Washington.The currently corrupt administration makes Whitewater look like a girl scout cookie sale, and we won't need to pay some witchhunter a half a billion dollars to find out the true story.Enjoy your time in power, you greedy neocons, because your time is running out.
Reagan was the first of the "new republicans" to use the Postal Service as a cash cow in order to hide the true budget deficits from the American people. Pray that Emperor W is the last.
"We are losing share in the overall delivery services market. Major corporations now dominate parcel and express markets. Under the current regulatory structure, competitors have far more flexibility to respond to changes in market conditions and to target specific customers than does the Postal Service."
More beautiful words have never been written before by the USPS" THE TRUTH. BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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