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Originally Posted by ilovetv
How can anyone possibly want federal government-run healthcare, with tens of thousands more unionized public bureaucrats demanding benefits like the postal service has??
"The U.S. Postal Service suffered a net loss of $5.1 billion for fiscal 2011, a figure that would have been far higher if Congress had not delayed a retiree health care payment originally due on the final day of the fiscal year in September, according to financial results released Tuesday.......
...USPS leaders have said they lack the money to cover that obligation whenever it comes due. While the deferral had the effect of improving the Postal Service's 2011 results, Corbett said, "we still face the same financial stress."
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/...S02/111150302/ |
I posted this thinking more of how the federal government mismanages and
squanders money, and how public employee unions ARE the government when it comes to "negotiating" their fat union contracts.
"“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
That wasn’t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking.
That was George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd.
The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate...-sector-unions