http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/07/8191425-twisted-government-accounting-behind-postal-service-woes
MSNBC to the rescue!!! How does this lying, slandering, incoherent band of children, who apparently are too old to be on MTV anymore, get away with all the insanely stupid crap they say, while foxnews gets nitpicked on a nightly basis?
Per usual with government public defender MSNBC, the author picks and chooses his facts to twist the truth into the lie that the USPS would break even, or even operate at a surplus, if not for those gosh darn accounting rules. FACT of the matter is that even if it didn't have to pay for its archaic pension plan (thanks to its wonderful union) it would still be losing money hand over fist.
"It's just too complicated to explain, it's crazy" Do your rough ridin' job idiot. The only thing this article is missing to be stamped grade A msnbc garbage is their typical blanket statement "it's the republicans fault".
You idiots will literally believe whatever it is you want to believe regardless of the truth. Sad really
wow you're completely wrong. The Union doesn't want to run the pension plan they way they are forced to. Nice try lying about the situation.
Your right, the union doesn't make up the accounting rules, like no one said.
The Union does however insist on a defined contribution pension plan. The same type of archaic pension plans that bankrupt the auto and airline industries. Switch to a defined contribution plan, like the rest of the non-unionized world, and you don't have to "pre-fund for 75 years" (which is an enormous misrepresentation of truth not worth explaining on a board where half the posters can barely make sense of a 10 word post, e.g. ednksu and mir).
the fact you that you think pensions and healthcare plans are archaic just shows how out of touch with reality you are. Why don't you look up the statistics for how much the private sector pre-funds their various plans. hint its not 100%, its not 50%. Look it up. The Union wants to save the post office, the political appointees don't. This is yet another example of the far right wing holding American institutions hostage in order to relive the great depression and prove that they only needed a few more years and the New Deal wasn't needed.
edn, you are just a bastion of intelligence. the gift that keeps on giving. 'grats
congrats, you earned this one. Way to stop just short of calling me UnAmurikan because I disagree with you and use facts.
