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To: richardred who wrote (1512)	10/12/2012 2:40:47 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 3363

The financial crunch is largely due to a law passed in 2006 in which Congress ordered the Postal Service to put money aside for future retiree benefits, a mandate that has drained the agency of cash and that many want to see repealed. It is comical (the "black" comedy sort) that Congress ordered the Postal Service to adopt those rules. If state govts adopted them, most of them would be broke too. As would many companies, burdened by the legacy costs of their pensions which come from a time when companies actually tried to do right by their long time employees as opposed to just their highest paid employees, who, as we all have been told so often, deserve only the best because they are the Job Creators and Masters of the Universe, and worthy of the greatest honors that can bestowed upon a human being.