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Feb 16 2013
01:01 pm
Speaker of the House, Boehner, Responsible for Killing US Post Office?
By: WhitesCreek

Franken said the decision could have been avoided if the House of Representatives had taken up the bipartisan postal reform bill passed in the Senate last year. The bill would have put the Postal Service on sounder financial footing and would have allowed rural communities to have a greater say in the operation of local post offices.

Why are we allowing this to happen? Why hasn't each of our Congressmen been required to state publicly why they refuse to take up the Senate Bill to correct the Fed Ex Lobbyist bill that requires the USPO to fund pensions for workers that haven't even been born yet at a cost of $5 billion a year?
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OK

Submitted by chelsea on February 16, 2013 - 4:43pm.

So, it is OK for Reid to refuse to bring a House passed budget bill to the floor (same as killing it), but not OK for Boehner to kill a bill. Both are very important issues...about equal I would say.
Don't know why double posting.

One of these things is NOT like the other

Submitted by WhitesCreek on February 16, 2013 - 6:21pm.

So it's OK for Boener to destroy the Postal Service because Harry Reid wouldn't bring up the ludicrous Tea Party budget bill sent up by the House?

Well

Submitted by chelsea on February 16, 2013 - 11:22pm.

Well, does that make Obama a TEA party person? They actually brought his budget to the floor and voted it down? Just curious.

I think you'll be hard

Submitted by WhitesCreek on February 17, 2013 - 7:37am.

I think you'll be hard pressed to show any vote in the House on an Obama budget.

The USPS has been dying for years and years...

Submitted by RoaneBooster on February 16, 2013 - 10:49pm.

... and it has taken more than one individual to make that a fact.

RB

RB

Submitted by WhitesCreek on February 17, 2013 - 7:44am.

The USPO is a Constitutionally mandated entity that has been under constant attack by the GOP. How can you justify passing a bill that requires the Postal service to set aside $5.5 billion dollars a year for pensions that won't be due for 75 years? Even with that requirement it lost $1.5 billion last year. Without the GOP's cynical and crushing interference it would have made between $3 and $4 billion dollars profit.

The GOP has filibustered every attempt to correct this, which has gone unremarked by that "liberal" media we've heard so much about. We're losing this country to corporatists, with the result that the middle class is on its way to serfdom. I hope folks can educate themselves by listening to a variety of news sources and then actively communicating with their elected officials.

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