Paul Ryan has been selected as Mitt Romney’s running mate in the upcoming election. Paul Davis Ryan is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party, and has been ranked among the party’s most influential voices on economic policy. Wikipedia
Here is what Ryan had to say about USPS:
Photo credit: The Ed Schultz Show
Since 1971, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been a self-supporting wholly governmental entity that was designed to cover its operating expenses with revenues generated through the sales of postage and related products. However, the sharp decline in first class mail since 2006 and the loss of the associated revenues coupled with high operating expenses has left the USPS in a difficult financial position. In the first three quarters of this year, the USPS has run a deficit of $5.7 billion and is not expected to be able to make the mandatory $5.5 billion Retiree Health Benefits Fund payment by November 18, 2011. With declining revenues and increased expenses, it is imperative that Congress take action to address and reform the structural issues threatening to bankrupt this important agency.
At this point in the 112th Congress, a variety of Committee hearings, have resulted in a number of bills designed to address the financial problems facing the USPS. Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is charged with oversight of the USPS, introduced H.R. 2309, Postal Reform Act of 2011, on June 23, 2011. The bill would create the Postal Service Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, which would have a broad mandate to restructure the Postal Service and reduce costs in order to bring the institution back to fiscal solvency when the Postal Service goes into default to the Federal government. The Authority will be disbanded once the United States Postal Service (USPS) meets several benchmarks that ensure financial health.
The Postal Reform Act of 2011 also empanels a separate body, the Commission on Postal Reorganization (CPR), to review postal infrastructure and recommend closures and consolidations to Congress that will ultimately save the Postal at least $2 billion a year. If Congress does not reject the CPR’s recommendations, they become law. The legislation will also remove several legal hurdles that the USPS currently faces when it comes to reducing costs, including allowing financially unsustainable retail postal facilities to be closed.
H.R. 1351, the United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011, was introduced by Representative Stephen Lynch on April 4, 2011. This bill would amend the method of calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System. Many supporters of this bill argue that the USPS has overpaid into the Civil Service Retirement Fund; however, this claim is based on a hypothetical formula for determining the share of retiree benefits that was never actually agreed to. The USPS claims that, if this formula had been used instead of the current formula which they agreed to in 1974, the US Treasury would owe $50-75 billion to the USPS due to overpayments made toward retiree benefits. Since this formula was never agreed to and the USPS has operated under a different formula since 1974, there was no overpayment made by the USPS.
The USPS is a proud institution that provides vital services and employs thousands of hard-working Americans. Any efforts to reform the USPS must ensure solvency for the agency and the benefits of its retirees, and must modernize its structure in order to adapt to 21st century communications practices.
To :RETIRED@CSRS, I totally disagree with your comments on voting for the Pres that will do the best job. Where do you live, on the moon? Easy for you to say, now that you are retired and have nothing to fear, well, maybe a little ! I think you are the one here being selfish. When your whole life is the USPS, and you have basically no where else to work or go, because of whatever reasons, please don’t tell me, or others that have put so much into their job’s, to not be selfish, and then go and vote for the guy that you know will privatize your job, or will drastically reduce all the things you have worked for ! As I said, your opinion was very selfish and misguided, and you should be ashamed of yourself for saying so. You always vote for the Pres, or maybe i should say congressional member that will protect your job. God, what a stupid thing to say. Oh ! I’m being selfish because I want to make another 15 years of work and one of the guy’s will put me out of work in 4 years, leaving me broke and homeless, but he’ll maybe make the economy a little better ! Oh, yeah!, Like I am really going to vote this way. You make me sound like I am a commie. You always vote for the guy that will protect your job, or seems like he will. Wake up, this is capitalism. Most voters in any country will do this. GOD ! what a ignorant remark, I cannot believe, that you actually fall for your own bullshit. Not like we will fall from grace and into Lucifer’s domain if we don’t vote for the best candidate.You also want to make workers feel that they are unpatriotic, if they vote for the guy/guy’s that will keep them employed, and that way of thinking is treason, or something close too it ! Congress is really the one’s that will be deciding. Our pres, well he just kind of try and push things that are in his interest. And yes, both are going to do damage to us, our leaders have put him in this situation. But Obama will still be better than Romney. And who cares about what Paul did, or didn’t do in WI. The point is, they wanted to make drastic cuts in that state, he had a part in it, no matter what you say. What people are trying to get across is, they want to cut, but they do not want to share in the hurt. This is why I do not comment. Too many posters that read one sentence, and start presuming everything that one sentence says, and not what the point of the entire article is getting at. ERIK, please put some thought into your post please, or can’t you put anything down, that’s more than a sentence ?
Ps, I don’t proof read, so excuse my mistakes please.. HHHOLMES…
A winning plan for employees that want to keep jobs for the future as many of us have years to work. Politicans and union leaders think only for the moment and what they can get for themselves. Reckless spending by districts, areas and headquarters has created a financial crisis for the USPS. Who will pay the billions of dollars lost by USPS. Revenue is not going to increase delivering junk mail 6 days aweek. Cost is not going to be reduced to keep afloat due to politicans, unions and management failure to create a survival plan.
All of you speaking about Ryan and what happened in Wisconsin. Let’s clear this up once and for all. It was NOT Ryan, it was the Governor, Scott Walker, who made the changes requiring health care and retirement contributions. That said… I think we’re screwed regardless of who wins in November but all we can hope is that Congress is afraid to do too much to the USPS.
Those of you who say not to vote. That’s wrong. If you don’t vote you can’t complain about what happens in the next four years. Read and then sort it all out and vote for the person you believe will do the best job for the country and the economy. We can’t be so selfish that we think only of our own jobs. We MUST look at the entire picture.
I’m also torn but am not so selfish that I’ll vote for Obama just because I think he might do less damage to the USPS. That would make me like one of those stupid women who are voting for him simply so I could get free birth control pills! Please don’t be that stupid.
Union Postal Worker……Good Point. I for one have always focused AND put blame on the President (Dem or Repub) for everything. Congress is the Key……and they need the “Boot”!
US postal worker: I distinctly remember Pres. Young of the NALC telling us to call our congressman in 2006 to tell them vote yes on postal reform. He said it wasn’t perfect and we could change it in the future.
Sue, Thank you for telling all here that all comments are good. No, comment is bad, maybe misguided, but at least in this country, we can speak freely, where as, in others, you might land in jail. So, all comments are welcome, and I am sorry I went off on that one guy telling me I am a GOP lifer. Sue, I think I have read some of your other comments, but I am not sure. I usually do not add my thoughts because, it seems their are many that have nothing to say but trailer trash and insulting rhetoric. And it is the same old clowns, day in, and day out. They obviously did not see this article.
Sue, and the other good people here who have taken the time to address their care for our country, thank you and keep it up. This is where most of all the grass root bills start. The people who take the time to put their thoughts down on ink, or here, the web.
Sue, I agree with you so much, that I feel your pain and frustration//’s. I was going to vote straight Dem ticket, with the exception of my vote for President.
I was leaning towards Ron Paul’s name, or write in, if one can refer to him as a candidate. I have not heard where he stands on our issue’s, but what I have heard him in the debates and in print (except his bubble gum foreign policy), and I think he has some new and refreshing ideas. I was going to vote for him as a loud statement to our Washington leaders, that enough is enough !. My total resentment of Obama and his wife, actually (and for the first time for a candidate), makes me sick. I want to grab a handful of Vicodin to calm myself down. Valium’s don’t work for this kind of sickness. I then would have to chase it down with a 1963 bottle of Seagram’s!. But the trouble with this, I would have to keep it up until after the elections. And my stomach wouldn’t like me anymore.
So Sue, trying to make a statement and vote for Paul, is appealing, but they’re wouldn’t be enough of us doing so, as to make a real statement. And, like you Sue, I am basically gone now with all my surgeries and many more to come, not including the severe nerve damage as a result of said surgeries. But, I am very concerned with all those other employees that I started with, and that they need about 10 years or more to go. But let me tell you so you are not confused, I want our jobs to be there for another 50 years, and it can be, if the DC folks just get out of the way and lets us do what we do. New services could be added like they do in Australia, and other country’s. Just get the lobbyist out of the way.
Sue, I may pay a small amount of attention to Romney and Paul, if they would take a 50% pay cut and change their generous retirements and health care packages that they exclusively receive and most other Federal/USPS employees do not. Why do these people have to get $120 grand a year ? They are very good to themselves. Sue, please do not (lol) get me started on the daily per- diem they receive. Sue, also, are you aware, that all the unspent campaign contributions that are not spent, they can add all of this to their income for the year ? Yeah, if I heard correctly, Obama had over 100 million left over from the last presidential run, more than enough to make it stretch for his current run, and this guy is asking America to donate to his campaign. Something wrong with this. Clinton, when his last day was over, he had amassed $40-$50 million in left over donations, and then he and Hillary went and set up a website for Americans to help him out with all his legal bills from his illegal deeds. My oh my, to get rich, all you have to do is, just get elected. And most in this country do not care, or say they don’t have time to get involved, but they’re the biggest complainers. So, I as you Sue, will vote Straight DEM ticket, and hope they do no
kill the goose that got them in for another 4. I still believe, in 2 generations, our country will be unrecognizable, and or a Socialist country like England, and most of us, sorry, a few of us know how depressed they are over there.
This is H.H.Holmes at your service folks.. Enjoy your work week and keep the USPS in business, please use a stamp, and not the e-bill thing as most, yes, as most of you are doing. Now that is another topic I would like to comment on, all those fake USPS employee’s who are complaining how bad things are, and how they deserve a raise, but will not even buy a booklet of stamps. Man ! We got some really dumb and selfish employee’s that I hope some of them lose their jobs ! all talk, no action ! To the people here, have any of you so called employees ever take the time to write a letter or email, and then follow it up with a phone call, to your congressman ? I kind of thought so, this is what I mean..
They want the good job and the great salary, but will not take time to write a letter, as to save they’re jobs. OH Where’s that Vicodin and whiskey !!….
Amazing how facts are just over looked. PDXPat said it best EVERYONE, not just postal workers need to read and learn a little about the way US government works. A US President has no authority to pass or create laws. He (because to date we have not had a female President) only can sign or veto laws that have been passed by Congress. Obama’s Healthcare bill passed by Congress, the bank bailout passed by Congress, automotive bailout passed by Congress. No jobs bill has been passed by Congress……. let me repeat NO JOBS BILL HAS BEEN PASSED BY CONGRESS. Many partisians and some racists want to blame Obama…… WAKE UP he cant make laws. This is something that was taught in Civics in high school. This is in the Constitution. Learn the facts. When one political party wants to get there base fired up they blame the sitting President. Bascially they are calling everyone stupid because a President can’t create laws.
Erick said that the Unions supported the Postal Reform Act 2006. WRONG!!!! Check the facts……. I do recall that APWU under Burris asked all members to contact their congressman/woman to tell them to vote no. It wasnt the APWU that supported that bill.
The point is that if we are tired of the results we are getting for our country wed need to examine who we vote for Congress. They are SUPPOSE to represent the will of their constituents obvious with all the distrust and disgust we have with US government they have not voted the will of the people. The President cannot dictate.
One more thing……. maybe healthcare in the US would be reformed to help the people if every member of Congress had the same coverage as their constituents. THEY GET FREE HEALTHCARE FOR LIFE….. Make them pay copays not covered by health insurance. Bet it would be fixed then. just a thought.
OMG. THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD STATEMENTS HERE. IT IS SAD THAT A FEW PEOPLE (CONGRESS) CAN DIVIDE US SO MUCH. HOW DO WE AS AMERICAN WORKERS GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF WASHINGTON? SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE NOW. HOW DO WE GET RID OF ALL OF THEM? IT IS SO DEPRESSING TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA AND IT IS SCARY TO THINK OF WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE TEN OR TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW. HOW DO WE GET GOVERNMENT TO REALIZE THAT THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE RUINING THIS COUNTRY? WHY IS THERE NO MEDIA PEOPLE ASKING THE QUESTIONS THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE ASKED HERE? THE MEDIA NEED TO HOLD THESE PEOPLES FEET TO THE FIRE AND ASK THE QUESTIONS AND NOT PUSSY FOOT AROUND AND ASK
DUMB QUESTIONS. WHO TO VOTE FOR? I WANT TO PROTECT POST OFFICE JOBS PERIOD. I DO NOT LIKE OBAMA AT ALL, BUT JESUS I HONESTLY THINK ROMNEY WILL TAKE THE PO APART FASTER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. IT IS REALY SAD THAT TO GET GOOD NEWS ON TV ANY MORE YOU HAVE TO WATCH JON STEWART.
I AM CLOSE TO RETIRING BUT I HAVE A LOT OF YOUNGER PEOPLE WHO NEED THEIR JOBS TO RAISE THEIR FAMILYS. I CANNOT VOTE TO DESTROY THE POST OFFICE. I JUST CAN’T DO IT. I WISH THERE WAS SOME WAY TO REACH WASHINGTON, I DON’T THINK THEY GET IT AT ALL. OR MAYBE THEY DO AND JUST CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN JOBS NO MATTER HOW MANY LIVES THEY RUIN. HOW THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT IS BEYOND ME.
Just want to say here, everyone has truth to what they say and feel. Bottom line, the average worker is always going to get shafted. Obama has proven, or hasn’t proven in his 4 years, that he can get anything done. Bush is partly to explain with the wars, but only partly. If Obama was any type of a negotiator, he would have brought Congress together, and signed off on some of those unpopular environmental laws that would have created some/many jobs. What about rebuilding our infrastructure, millions of jobs just waiting to start. What is the sense of the environmental rich people, who have money in the bank, and are one of last groups to be financially hurting,whats the sense of their laws/bills, if no one is working to use those things ?
Romney, will increase our taxes, and he will cut our entitlements, but Obama will to.
This is one of the toughest elections ever. If I remember correctly, all the GOP candidates have been so fricking rich, way more than the DEM candidate. So out of touch with the average family. Bad points to both sides. I know one thing, I did not run up the deficit, our govt. did, why should I now have to suffer, for mistakes that were done on purpose by our leaders. Our leaders will never feel the hurt of the average American family, NEVER.. I despise Obama and everything he stands for, but in the end, he will be closer to saving our PO, that any other person. But it may not matter if the GOP takes both houses folks !
Greedy Unions, Poor Management, and Corrupt Polticians are the problem! The union always wants something for nothing. Management punishes good employee’s and ignores poor ones. Politicians want you to pay while they dance. An honest working man does not stand a chance!!!
divide and conquer …….seems to be working out so far for the people who want to destroy the post office. all postal employees will have plenty of time to fight, bicker and point fingers while they are at home without a job. united we stand, divided we fall. good luck to everyone and god bless our troops and beloved veterans.
SKYE, Yes, I agree with you almost 100%. As far as ryan nd WI., I didn’t want to get into all the details and maybe i should have explained myself better. Sorry. But my point on WI/Ryan was that he came in an made neccessary changes, but didn’t make any cuts to his health and or his WI retirement. Facts are facts. That’ll be the day they cut their own benfits, just everyone else’s.. Yes, Obama has siad many things and has lied on almost all. One is, if things aren’t better in 4 years, I won’t run, Yeah right !, In IL, gas is way over $4 and unemployment only came down a little. He said he was going to get it to 6%. Just more lies and promises. Hope and Change. Yeah I knew most Americans were going to fall for this. I have to stop now, my ULCER is acting up. SKYE, thanks for your input. But they both SUCK. Where’s Ron Paul ? except his foreign policy is SUCKO…
The way I see it is that Congress, Issa, and most of the GOP are turning the tables on the American Working Public. We are led to believe that we are over paid and have benefits that cause the Post Office to go broke. Labor is costing the Post Office. Health Care is costing the Post Office etc. etc. Whats costing the Post Office is it’s Leadership. That is where the Post Office is getting sucked dry! Not enough time to go too far down this road to explain. Just take my word on this one.
Secondly, what is wrong with an Agency that provides Veterans preference and a Job in which a Living can be obtained? Not a Summer Home, Yacht and Trips around the world……..A LIVING! After risking your life for your Country would you consider a Job with Medical benefits too much? Like it was said in the Godfather Movie…….”It’s just a trick of the Rich, to keep the poor without it”
PMG……… 400 to 800K Annually? That says it ALL!
And Holmes, you talk about ‘look what Ryan did in Wisconsin,’ but do you REALLY know what you are talking about? Are you aware that the STATE employees there paid NOTHING for their health care? Oh, poor state employees! They have to pay some of their insurance premiums now! Is it realistic for any state employee to get full coverage of health care? We USPS employees don’t get that. Those people felt entitled to receive all their beaucoup benefits on the backs of the people who live in their state. Are you aware that Wisconsin is one of the highest taxed states in our union? So I applaud Mr. Ryan for trying to help the PEOPLE OF HIS STATE WHO ARE PAYING ALL THE TAXES, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE STATE AND RAKE IN ALL THE BENEFITS. They still have their freaking jobs, don’t they? So they have to pay a little more, is that any different than what the Congress just did to us as far as contributing to our retirement? And both Democrats and Republicans voted for that one…the thing that troubles me is that the Congress feels no need to cut their own PLENTIFUL benefits, which also fall on the backs of the American taxpaying citizen. We are the only ones sucking the till dry, when are they gonna come off some of their perks, like constant vacations, freel postage, free healthcare for life, wonderful retirement package unlike the rest of the Federal workforce…you get the picture.
Holmes, I agree with most of what you say, for I too depise Obama and all those a**holes who purport to ‘care’ for all the poor and old people, when nothing could be further from the truth, I have to wonder, though, if Obama will ‘save’ your job for 4 more years, because I believe that as soon as the election is over he will get out the scalpel and start cutting himself! Haven’t you noticed how quiet Obama has been about the subject of the USPS? He has not stood up for our organization or our jobs, especially like he did the jobs of the auto workers. He has done nothing for ‘us’ or any other union workers since then, and I believe that he will sell us all out, just like he has already done our country, he’s just waiting to get re-elected so he can quit pretending like he did before the last election. Hell, he said in his last election that the whole election was run on ‘change,’ well, I gotta give him that…he just forgot to say that the change was going to be for the worse, and the ‘change’ was going to be how he sneakily steals our Consitutional rights away, and the ‘change’ was all about embracing a failing Socialist philosophy that has already been proven not to work by the Soviet Union and other countries. Our country will NEVER continue with fewer and fewer people working to support greater and greater numbers of people who do not work or contribute to our economy in any way. I WON’T vote for Obama! I will NEVER vote for Obama.
why worry,they can’t get together,the postal reform bill of june 2011,14 months later what changes have they made.
Erick after reading the nonsense you posted I’m considering doubling my COLCPE donation.
Priorities first………….Amen………we can only Vote and Pray!
Yes this Sword had Two Edges……so what do we do? Right Now I would vote for Judge Judy if she Ran!!
Jesus will all ways love us no matter where you are at in life make him your priority and trust him with everything just as he provides you with you next breath. Trust him , reach for him and then your desires will be his. If you belong to him then this postal mess is in the process of being worked out for you good. May God bless my fellow workers
AJW3 and Who in the HELL, man on man ! guys, please go back and re read my thoughts, please. I never said or stated that Romney will fix the economy, ok ! I said he might, that is a long way from stating that he will. Honestly folks, we are in a very long DEPRESSION, and we are not going to get out of it for a very long time. Romney is not the answer. Neither one can do anything about the jobs/economy. Now, one might be better than the other as far as some, ok, some job creation, but nothing that will really make a diff. Romney/Paul will get some of those big oil job programs started, but that is about it. Now Obama, he is and the other Dems, are just killing any chance of hiring with those job/killing regulations. Then add to that, the illegal Health Plan. So, if I had to vote for a 1 year president, yes, it would be Romney. He said if he gets in, the first thing he does is kill the Health care law.
Then he cuts all those BS small business regulations that are stifling job creation, then the first year is over and we have new elections. But this probably will not happen. So, if you don’t work for the USPS, please vote Romney/Paul.
If you are a worker for the USPS, well god help us, and please vote for no job obama…and all his socialist policies, so we start looking like Europe, God Help Us, 2 more generations and more lost folks voting for this guy who hates white people and will not put his right arm over his heart. What happened to my country ? I have fought in the last 2 wars, for what, Socialism ?.. Hmmm..
DIamond Tony, this goes for you too, you POS.And you are one sick Liberal losing SOB…Take your social views and get the frikk out of my country. You need some help with this, you call me anytime Liiberal. You want a free check to that I was talking about ? Well you can cash it in Venezuela…
WTF, I agree with you 100%. Obama won’t even salute the flag, he is ashamed of it. He and no other Obama has ever fought in a war, or spilled any blood for this country, but yet goes overseas, and frikking apologizes to them. He should be run out on a rail and tar and feathered..
Diamond tony: go read a book, and maybe take some civic lessons. Talk about the blind following the blind… Grow up and get a life. Or how bout this, when you have something to say, have a point ! It usually makes the story more interesting. God, you are one NEGATIVE BITCH STILL SUCKING ON HIS MOMMY’S SMALL TITS, funny how you never have a opinion, but put down others who are just stating their’s.
HEY TONY, did i hurt your feelings, you frikking LOSER LIBERAL, AGAIN,, GO READ A BOOK AND PLEASE GOD, TAKE A CIVIC LESSON OR TWO. THEN LEARN HOW TO BE RESPECTFUL… YOU DAMN LIBERAL LOSING TRAILER TRASH LITTLE BOY.
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Hey Hector Lopez……..”Obama’s worst nightmare is an educated voter?”….Your Daddy tell you that? ………….”Enough Said!”
The democrats will keep screwing you and other postal workers because they know you won’t give money or vote for the other guy. The democrats don’t have to worry.
They got you wrapped around their finger. Dont vote, don’t give money to COLCPE.
Holmes, your polital understanding is so inept that i wouldn’t even know where to begin with you. Good luck!
ERIK the RED, Yes my friend, i know this, but that still comes out to a 40 hour work week. As far as the cutting the work force, it was going to happen anyways, and this has nothing to do with politics. The times are changing, you know this. So do not blame this on Obama, or anyone else. Their isn’t a free ride here my friend. Just hope you have some seniority where you work at. Good luck to you. But vote DEM to save allot of jobs.
Sick and Tired: I feel your pain, but we all need many more years in this job, just to make the property taxes and our health care premiums. GOD, this Romney/Paul, they really scare me. Look what Ron Paul did in WI. This guy wants to force everyone that is retiree eligible, to be forced out at 57 or so. Vets and the disabled too. Who do you know that is ready for this, and that will be on top of taking cuts everywhere and cutting what little Fers pays out. I don’t see any of these GOP, taking pay cuts, or health care, retirement cuts to themselves, no can’t have that ! Paup and Issa reasoning for this early retirement, so they can hire younger workers at a reduced salary. OK, then what about all these new ex-USPS employee’s that will have to go out and try to find a gas station job etc., won’t they be classified as being unemployed, because they are forced to get a diff job, to make their bills. What kind of reasoning is this ? The GOP has always tried to screw the little guy. I mean when you have money, how much is enough ? They, the GOP, want to extend the the Bush tax cuts for the rich, so they then, invest the money in new businesses and then hire new employees. Trouble is, trickle-down economics does not work and really never has. And it hasn’t done anything for our country in the last 10 years or so. I can’t go on with this, it is hopeless. Our country is so screwed up. 2 more generations, and you won’t recognize it (the USA).. For now, like it matters, !, I am voting straight DEM party, as usual. And I really despise this social, let everyone in this country free President. Don’t work, get a check, and some free health care, all on the backs of the good working American people. Congress SUCKS..and does OBAMA. But I will vote Democratic, and that is so I can feed my kids, and pay some bills. GOD BLESS AMERICA..
Obama will cut postal employees too. Remember he supports 5 day deliver. Good bye T.E. s They worked you to death now Obama will show you the door! Don’t vote dem. or rep.
To FOO BAR BZ on SAT: Sir, My point is, I am saying I am very frustrated with these 2 liars. I am a USPS employee and will always vote for the candidate that will keep me employed. FOO BAR, you need to go back and re think your opinion to me. I have never voted GOP in my life. So, how bout thinking a little more before you open your mouth about me. We are the working class, in this country, and usually the Dems take care of us. But, even they are thinking about cutting, what I briefly mentioned. Can’t trust anyone anymore, and not like you could anyways. God!, me a GOP. REREAD what I wrote FOO BAR (fucked up beyond any repair) and learn to analyze the comment, instead of a sentence. Folks, my thoughts is the second posted here at the top. I will take the one fella’s advice,and I was going to do it before his recommendation, and that is vote straight DEM ticket where it affects my state. And probably will vote Obama.
FOO BAR :, AGAIN, I have never voted GOP. Analyze the topic, not a sentence. And, anyone that is a USPS employee that wants to keep his/her job, you better get smart and vote all Democratic. No job, and your nothing in life. Jesus isn’t going to help you, no matter how much you pray to him. It’s called FREE WILL.
As Ronald Regan said “Are you as well off now as you were 4 years ago?” If yes vote for Obama . If no vote for nobody.
I’m 53, a 20 year veteran of the Army and work as a letter carrier. I’ve voted in every election since is was eligible to vote. For the first time in my life I am seriously considering not voting. Won’t matter who you vote for. Morally and ethically this country is finished.
Anyone in what’s left of the middle class voting for the crooked a**hole ticket (Romney/Ryan), is a complete f**king idiot.
Your right Steve but remember the republicans could not have passed the 2006 act without the democrats and union support. The union wont remind you that then Pres Young urged everybody to call your congressman back then to support the 2006 act.
well it looks like one pension plan has been raided with more to come……….. no excess in csrf………..what a joke……..a cash-cow monopoly and we will be phased out of business.
Its the fault of the unions. By supporting the Socialist Democrats election after election, they caused what is going on in this country. The unions opened it up for the Republicans and the Tea Party to get in and decimate the working people of this country. Don’t give to COLCPE! I gave to COLCPE for 8 yrs. When the healthcare bill was passed and supported by the unions against the wishes of the people I cut COLCPE OFF! They will just continue to give money to the people who will screw this country. Remember the president was supported by the unions and now he is stabbing us in the back with 5 day delivery. DONT VOTE FOR ANYBODY.
Can’t possibly vote for this guy, I have heard him speak many times and I know he’s an intelligent man, so when he puts out that statement he knows its bullshit, for years the post office broke even while overpaying into the retirement fund, then they created this bullshit act in 2006 as a way to siphon off some money. Paying health benefits for the next 75 years, absolute crap and when they decided in 2006 how much we would need to pay that was based on a thriving post office before the economic collapse, since then they have gotten rid of a third of the workforce and are planning on cutting it further!! You don’t need as much money for 1/3 to 1/2 of the workers!!!!!!!!!! Tell the f?*&&in truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t wait for the VP debates. It will be hilarious!!!!
Ball of Confusion , run , run , run but ya still can’t hide …dem taxes !
Ryan is lyin’!
If you work for the USPS and are ignorant enough to vote against our very future by voting for Romney/Ryan, then you should do us all a favor and quit your job/retire since you obviously do not value it.
If you are a postal employee and you are finding it difficult to vote for Obama instead of that lieing sack of dog crap Romney, I’d suggest you start reading everything you can get your hands on about civics. Educate yourself on how our government works. Learn about the duties of the congress, the judiciary and the executive branch. Of course you’ll need a crash course, and please don’t use Glen Beck to learn civics from. But worrying about welfare moms is not gonna make this country any better. Voting against your own interests won’t either. Get that crash course, then vote democratic. Otherwise you’ll be praying to somebody elses idea of god, and enjoying real poverty as the privileged class takes everything.
Mr. Holmes is spot on! who the hell do you vote for? It depends on how your vote will affect you. I actually believe there are no worthy choices for my vote.
Obama’s worse nightmare… an educated voter!
—- Enough said.
H H Holmes……..understand your thinking but I also think it’s wrong. Do you really believe that Romney will “Fix” the Economy? Romney is as Phoney as a three dollar bill! The War right now is costing 2 Billion a week. When we bring our troops home and close the gates and concentrate on this Country……then perhaps the Economy will get better. Who will do this? Everything else aside….at least Obama is starting.
H. H Holmes……you are a very typical Reoublican that wants to pick and choose entitlements and which ones are acceptable or not. If it is your entitlement that you are saving then you can justify a vote against you own party. This is why so many are turning against the GOP……………because they have no conscience unless they are railing against everyone else’s so called entitlements. Vote for what you stand for and not for your greed!
+100 Mr Holmes.
GOP talks about “smaller government”, but then wants to create a new “authority” and a new “commission” to destroy the PO.
I have other reasons for not liking Obama, but the Romney/Ryan position on the PO situation makes me unhappy with them as well.
Since its mainly congress that’s in control of the PO issue, maybe vote GOP for PotUS, but vote more Dem in congress.
We’re all probably screwed no matter who wins. Maybe its time to start hoping the world really does end in 2012 – then none of it will matter.
This is the hardest election I have ever had, this hardest time deciding who to vote for. I am an USPS employee. One one hand, if I vote for Romney, he might be able to slowly fix the economy etc. , but then he privatizes my job, and that will be the start, of me being replaced or not making enough to make my bills, this after 28 years of service, and maybe forced retirement at 57! Oh, that will go over really well, with us and the vets/disabled ! Then, if I vote for NO-Job Obama, and he just changed his tune on no SS cuts, and then you have him flip flopping on the marriage thing, and him never saluting our flag, etc, and the socialism/free-checks/immigration by illegals is ok, he’ll probably work to save our jobs, as most dems do.
Like I said, who do I vote for, one will most likely take my job away, but also fix the economy, the other, will be in for another 4 years, and the economy most likely will be the same or worse, but will save my job. What do I do ?
Think of my country, or think of my job ? Well, since no one care about my country anymore, I might as well have a job !…..NO GREY, JUST FACT ! and I really despise this traitor Obama..
The so called “hypothetical” formula Mr Ryan is referring to shows a clear OVERPAYMENT of 75 years worth. It is interesting to note he has to go back all the way to 1974 in an attempt to justify his attack and denial of the USPS Problems that were essentially created by HIM and his fellow Republinatzis in 2006. This man has no business having ANY say over the future of the Post Office.