If you thought the Postal Service was bad before, just wait:

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93. In this thread from 2012 this was thrashed out a lot

link to thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101458967


I hope it's alright by DUer brentspeak if I quote his response to another DUer, Post 72:

"I'm aware that corporate Democrats like Tom Carper and Max Baucus have fought against efforts to eliminate the pre-funding requirement.

Please show us how Waxman and Davis were the ones responsible for including the pre-funding requirement into the House legislative draft. You won't be able to because the pre-funding requirement was included after Susan Collins (R-Maine) http://www.mpcourier.com/article/20111011/DCO01/111019967/0/dco added it to one of the Senate versions of the bill, which then got shuttled back to the House. As was already explained to you, the House Democrats bargained to remove the union-busting and privatization provisions from the House legislation. That's why they voted for the bill as it was hammered out."


He was responding to this:
"They may now have gotten cold feet about the bill but it is BS to say there was some big conspiracy to end the post office when progressive Democrats sponsored the bill and the postal union supported it. Maybe someone who was competent should have read the bill before voting on it and alerted people to the dangers before a vote instead of waiting years later."