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Senate Socialists Bailout Buffoonery Continues

The United States Senate, led by Liberal Democrat Harry Reid, is lining up at the taxpayer-funded debt-lovers cash trough again this week in the form of trying to “fix” another crisis of their own making. Meet  S. 1789  , or as today’s Senate Progressives call it, the 21st Century Postal Act of 2012: A bill to improve, sustain, and transform the United States Postal Service. This bill is sponsored by the lifelong fake Democrat posing as an Independent, Joe Lieberman. (L-D-CT) This USPS bailout bill  poses as a bi-partisan piece of work based on the support of the co-sponsorship from another fake Republican posing as a moderate, Susan Collins. (RINO-ME) The cost of the Senate-Progressives-USPS-bailout bill to the U.S. taxpayers? A cool $41 billion soon-to-be-borrowed taxpayer dollars.

For a more detailed understanding of just why the taxpayer is being forced to bailout the USPS by Senate Progressives this week, check out The United States Postal Ponzi Scheme.

It is none other than the U.S. Government itself that has caused this most recent “crisis” that threatens to shut down the USPS. In the words of Mr. Donahoe, the Postmaster General himself back in the summer of 2011, we see glimpses of the big government intervention causing the collapse of what was once a proud, viable U.S. Mail delivery system:

“The Postal Service is in a crisis today because it operates within a restrictive business model and has limited flexibility to respond to a changing marketplace,” To which he added, “We need the ability to operate more as a business does. This applies to the way we provide products and services, allocate resources, configure our retail, delivery and mail processing networks and manage our workforce.” (emphasis added)

That info-byte above is the Postmaster General of the USPS himself, begging the wizards of Congress to allow him to reform the USPS system so that they would not have to be bailed out in 2012 by the taxpayers due to the impending insolvency. Congress basically said no, and refused to allow Mr. Donohue to enact the needed reforms. Enter S. 1789, which also has another progressive debt-loving fake Republican on the co-sponsor’s list, Sen. Scott Brown. (RINO-MA) While select politicians and D.A.M. media operatives will hail this USPS bailout bill as bi-partisan during the coming weeks, it in fact, only has the support of Progressive Senators who are lining up trying to score political points for the upcoming elections.

The description of S. 1789 claims that is it designed to sustain,improve, and transform the U.S, Postal System. What will the $41 billion borrowed tax dollars be used for? As Daniel Horowitz  informs the citizenry, “This time, taxpayers will be tapped for another $41 billion to subsidize the healthcare retirement benefits of postal workers – benefits that are quite scarce in the private sector.”  The Progressive Senators USPS Bailout Bill of 2012 will not in fact “reform” the USPS into a more business-like sustainable entity, as claimed, but once again kicks the insolvency can down the road and opens the door to never-ending taxpayer bailouts of the dysfunctional, unsustainable USPS, much like the Progressive thievery  of the past two decades known as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “everyone deserves a house, regardless of ability to pay” programs that led to the housing and mortgage crisis. For a look into another reason for the USPS insolvency, check out the Liberal election-buying Union manipulation that is also behind this scheme, please see The USPS is Broke.

Call up your Senators this week, demand that they say no to the Progressive USPS Bailout Bill of 2012, (S.1789) and let every single one of them know you will be paying close attention to their votes on it.

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5 Comments

  1. The author is completely off base here. It would help if you did some research before you write. Reading his/her other articles also made me laugh. If these were any further right they’d fall off the edge.

    1. The USPS doesn’t need a 41 Billion Dollar bailout even though the Banks and Wall got those.
      In 2006 CONGRESS passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. Sounds good, huh? Read on.The PAEA (HR6407) MANDATED that the USPS FUND 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10 years at payments of 5.5 Billion a year. Any business or government agency that would be forced to do the same would end up unable to take in additional revenue to cover 75 years of retiree health benefits. Think about this. The USPS is required to cover retiree health benefits up until 2081 paid for in 10 to a new ON BUDGET FUND the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBF);
      What the Post Office needs is to have HR6407 and go back to being solvent as it was before when it’s income matched it’s expenses.
      I’m for voting NO on S1789 but for different reasons.

      1. Correction on my post.
        What the 3rd line from the bottom should say is:
        What the Post Office needs is to have HR6407 RESCINDED
        and go back to being solvent as it was before
        What a difference in meaning one word can make.

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  2. Ed, the same could be said of your comment which would lead me to tell you that “It would help if you did some research before you write.”

    The author quoted the Postmaster General and has the numbers of increased borrowing the govt will take on in your name.

    Perhaps you could enlighten us with your version of the facts. So far, all you’ve done is say that the article is incorrect and provided no rebuttal of your own.

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