Return to Article: Conservatives still waiting for response to concerns on postal overhaul
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Are you aware the Postal Service is the only govt agency that pays the military retirement portion of its employees who have served their country? In other words these fine men and women that have served our country and have gone to work at the Postal Service following their Honorable Discharge will not have their military time paid for in retirement by the taxpayers but by the ratepayers. The military retirement portion becomes an defacto tax borne by the Postal Service customer rather than the taxpayer. This may be well and good in your eyes, but most of us are glad to bear this obligation as taxpayers, because we all receive the same benefit of the military. The shell game to hide these obligations is wrong! Additionally, the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 mandates the Postal Service NOT make a profit. Under your proposal many of the small Post Offices in your district will need to be closed. Is that OK with you? How about your constituents? The Postal Reform Legislation that you oppose will deal with these problems fairly and equitably.
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Why is the postal service covering military pensions? Could it be that government does not want the public to really see the cost of DoD? Costs for all types of government actions are placed in departments that really have nothing to do with those costs. This typically is a trick Congress uses to get what they want. For example, why is there an appropriation for the special olympics in the DoD budget? Could it be that Kennedy tacked it on to the defense appropriation because he knew it was so small that no other Congressman would stop the defense budget approval for such a relatively small amount($3 million)?
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