Post Office-Public Employee Unions and Government Ripping Off Taxpayers

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

The United State Post Office wants to cut mail delivery to five days a week and also raise the cost of stamps again. Post Master General John Potter made an appearance before Congress to rationalize his reasoning for the cut back and increase in postage.

How many of you remember decades ago when the Post Office was run by the Government? It worked and worked very well. Now,present day, the Postal Service is about to lose $238 billion dollars over the next decade. The Post Master General says that cutting a day of delivery will save the Postal Service $40 Billion dollars over the next decade. That cut still would not make a dent in the billions of dollars that are promised to the postal employees and postal management in obscene pension and retirement benefits. The Postal Service actually owes billions of dollars to the protected public employees.

The postal service has a lot of deadwood in its ranks who are collecting obscene salaries, over generous retirement/pension benefits and health benefits. To fire and terminate a postal employee is nearly impossible. There are thousands of postal employees that are dead weight, some of these employees have committed major felony crimes and believe it or not they are still on the payroll and/or retired enjoying a benefits package that the a private sector employee will never see.

Once again this is an example of a large Pubic Employee union feeding at the trough like a bunch of piglets. These postal employees like most all other Public Employee unions are guaranteed great pensions and retirements and security on the job, basically for life.

The real reason for the Postal Service request to cut service and raise rates is only to support the continuation of salary and benefits. If it was a business in the private sector which was losing money or saw that business was getting bad the owner either cuts back on salary and expenses however when it comes to the Public Employee unions all they do is ding the taxpayer by raising rates and raising taxes, fees etc., just to maintain the status quo.

The cost to average Joe and Jane Doe toiling everyday at work, without a guarantee of a cost of living between 4 and 6 percent a year, merit pay, bonuses, free medical and a super retirement and pension and job security for life is devastating. Unions were great back at the turn of the century so as to protect the worker but it has run amok over the years, especially unionizing the Public Employees. The government just released a report that said as of this year Public Employee unions outnumber the unions in the private sector. What a rip-off!

People, Public Employee unions are bankrupting this country. The cost is unsustainable yet the government and whichever administration comes to power allows job growth in Public Employee jobs to increase each and every year. Why? So both political parties can pander to these powerful unions for votes. No other reason. The lawmakers give these unions most everything they ask for each and every time they negotiate contracts.

The stimulus money that was supposed to build our infrastructure and put construction workers, plumbers, electricians back to work was instead directed to the Public Employee unions to continue to pay teachers, firemen and policemen their obscene retirement benefits and pensions. Some of those pensions are paying the person up to 90% of their highest salary at the point they retire, many individuals retiring at 55 years old and these pensions doesn't include their free or near free health care for that person and their family for life.

The Federal, State, County and municipal governments should immediately call for and enact a freeze on salaries, annual cost of living increases,which by the way happened to all senior citizens in this country. Freeze all bonuses and merit increases, stop all full payments for free health care and put all of these Public Employee union people into a a 401(k) retirement plan like most private sector workers have to accept.

I suggest a freeze on all Congressional salaries for at least 5 years. These elite above the law lawmakers passed legislation years ago that guaranteed them annual automatic salary increases automatically "unless they vote not to accept it." Some of these increases run as high as 6%. What a joke! No one, I mean no one in the private sector gets these type of benefits.

But remember, it is these same politicians in Congress that said senior citizens in this country had to lose their meager 1.2 to 1.7 social security cost of living. I'm waiting to see if these (let them eat cake) people take their annual automatic salary increase.

We the people should be able to vote on Congress salaries and any annual salary increase. Currently Congress members are making at least three to four times the salary (not including all the benefits and freebies)that an average middle class worker makes(without freebies and benefits)- And, that's my opinion.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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