USPS Plans 27,000 Job Cuts as Plants Shut

[former9thward]

67. You are doing your best to confuse people.

In the age of the internet it just doesn't work. Don't you wish for the good old days?

A voice vote requires unanimous consent. If someone wants their votes to be recorded a recorded vote must be taken. If someone wanted to oppose this bill they could have asked for a recorded vote. No one did. In the Senate it was a unanimous vote. Try your BS with someone who doesn't know the rules.

Here is what the Postal Union said right after the bill was passed:

Financial Relief

There is some good news with significant financial impact on the USPS: The new law releases from an escrow account billions of dollars that the USPS has saved by ending overpayments to the Civil Service Retirement System; and it returns to the Treasury responsibility for paying about $27 billion in military service-related retirement benefits for postal workers. (No other federal agency has been required to pay these costs.)

The USPS was saddled with these financial burdens by provisions contained in the Postal Civil Service Retirement System Funding Reform Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-18). The provisions were supposed to be temporary, but the Bush administration insisted they remain in force to make the federal budget deficit appear smaller. Ultimately, the White House relented on its demand.


Notice not a single word of criticism of pre-funding pensions.

http://www.apwu.org/dept/legis/legmagart010107-reform.htm