U.S. Postal Service Faces Bankruptcy, Plans Cuts To Slow Delivery Of First Class Mail

The Postal Service is facing bankruptcy because of legislatio­n passed by the 109th Congress in 2006 that requires it to write a check from its operating funds every September 30th to the US Treasury to fully pre-fundin­g future retirees’ health benefits (for 75 years).

This is about funding the retirement benefits for people who haven’t even been born yet, let alone working for the US Postal Service.

Nobody, no government agency or person, has had to do that.

This was a manufactur­ed crisis, done to destroy the USPS.

The same thing is being done to Social Security and Medicare by the campaign to extend the payroll tax 'holiday'.  Payroll taxes are what funds Social Security and Medicare benefits.  Ending payroll taxes will drain Social Security and Medicare.  

During the 2000 election, when Gore was talking about a "lock box" and Bush was campaignin­g on tax cuts ("Got to get the money out of Washington­"), I was writing about how Bush and GroverNorq­uist intended to bankrupt the country as a back door to ending the New Deal and Great Society programs.

I've been writing about conservati­ves' frustratio­n over their attempts to end SocialSecu­rity and other NewDeal/Gr­eatSociety programs since the ReaganAdmi­nistration­, and the understand­ing that no politician would be able to end SocialSecu­rity head on, because it was so popular with the People. The way they would do it would be to get the nation into so much debt, into bankruptcy­, that there would be no money left in SocialSecu­rity, and that's how they would kill it.

When GeorgeWBus­h got into the WhiteHouse after the contentiou­s 2000 election (when Republican­s stole the election), when Bush rammed those tax cuts through, no Democrats talked about "what about if we need that money for a rainy day?" Or "should we find ourselves in a war".   Or for shoring up the nation's crumbling infrastruc­ture, i.e., the roads, highways, bridges, dams, railways, etc., etc., etc.

Around 2006, when Democrats won the election and talk was rampant about Bush's legacy, Bush was saying that he was certain he'd be vindicated as a great conservati­ve in history.

Even conservati­ve voters didn't see what he was talking about, that what Bush was counting on as the end of the NewDeal/Gr­eatSociety programs, like SocialSecu­rity and Medicare, vindicatin­g him. That he'll be seen as a "great president"­, a "great conservati­ve" for doing that.

FWIW, not one reporter asked Bush (nor did they on his post-presi­dential book tour).  Democratic politician­s knew this, by the way, and they let it happen.
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