CONGRESS SHOULD FORFEIT HEALTH CARE AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS, NOT U.S. POSTAL SERVICE RETIREES
Tell your elected officials THEY should go without not U.S. Postal Service retirees
We have a "do nothing" Congress, who has intentionally allowed the decline of our economy, and now the U.S. Postal Service. Without help from Congress, the Postal Service will not only default on payments for retiree health care benefits, but will lack funding for operations.
As of midnight Wednesday, August 1, 2012, the Postal Service went into default for the first time in its history, on a $5.5 billion payment owed the federal government to prepay health care benefits for retirees. Why should retirees have benefits they worked hard for taken away, while Congress takes 9 vacations/recesses per year, gets expensive health care and retirement pensions, paid for by the taxpayer? Congress should do without, instead of postal retirees.
According to the Postal Service's projections, there will not be sufficient for its operations in October 2012 and at other times during Fiscal Year 2013. Yet, Congress has no intention of working to resolve this matter until after the November election. While the Senate passed a bill in April 2012, the House has yet to take up its version. This is unacceptable. It's time Congress did without. They should be forced to forfeit vacations, health care benefits and pensions,not the U.S. Postal service and their retirees.
I demand that my elected officials take immediate action to resolve these issues. If they fail to do so, they will find themselves in the unemployment line, when they are voted out of office in November. Enough is enough!
As of midnight Wednesday, August 1, 2012, the Postal Service went into default for the first time in its history, on a $5.5 billion payment owed the federal government to prepay health care benefits for retirees. Why should retirees have benefits they worked hard for taken away, while Congress takes 9 vacations/recesses per year, gets expensive health care and retirement pensions, paid for by the taxpayer? Congress should do without, instead of postal retirees.
According to the Postal Service's projections, there will not be sufficient for its operations in October 2012 and at other times during Fiscal Year 2013. Yet, Congress has no intention of working to resolve this matter until after the November election. While the Senate passed a bill in April 2012, the House has yet to take up its version. This is unacceptable. It's time Congress did without. They should be forced to forfeit vacations, health care benefits and pensions,not the U.S. Postal service and their retirees.
I demand that my elected officials take immediate action to resolve these issues. If they fail to do so, they will find themselves in the unemployment line, when they are voted out of office in November. Enough is enough!
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