When pay phones are no longer in demand, phone companies remove them. When Delivery of mail 6 fracking days a week is obviously no longer in demand, the US Government goes on recess.
Fantastic. -Cameron On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Post Office Nears First Default in Its > History< > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444097904577535322022316422.html?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond > > > > Before I post a few excerpts, I want to make it clear that the post office > is not shutting down. This default is specifically related to its health > care fund for retirees. > > > The Postal Service repeated on Wednesday that without congressional action, > it will defaulta first in its long history, a spokesman saidon a legally > required annual $5.5 billion payment, due Aug. 1, into a health-benefits > fund for future retirees. Action in Congress isn't likely, as the House > prepares to leave for its August recess. > > The agency says it will default on its 2012 retiree health payment as > wellalso roughly $5.5 billion, due Sept. 30if there is no legislative > action by then. > > The two sides remain far apart. Senators voted in April, on a bipartisan > basis, for legislation that largely shores up the agency's finances by > returning an estimated $10.9 billion overpayment made into the federal > employee pension system. The legislation limits the agency's ability to > close postal branches and stop Saturday delivery. > > Republican House leaders support legislation they say would require the > agency to operate more like a business, in part by setting up a panel to > reduce the network of post offices. Some rural-district House members, from > both parties, have been worried about closures in their areas. > > > > It will be interesting to see how this one turns out. > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quint ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352787 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
