Let The Post Office Go Bankrupt. Start Over. Who Needs Union Contracts?

THE DOCTOR IS IN _______________

LAS VEGAS- Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Some say that the United States Post Office could go bankrupt. Hooray! Let them go bankrupt and then they could start all over again by voiding out all of the ludicrous union contracts that have been ripping us taxpayers off for years.

I say congress should break its agreement with labor unions and lay off 120,000 postal workers. Why? Here are some good reasons why. Currently the postal union "prohibits the Postal Service from laying off or reassigning workers if equipment is broke down. Postal union workers report to work and are told to go to a break room or cafeteria, have coffee or read and eat food but "do not" do any chores. They just sit there and get paid for zilch. Imagine any employer in the private sector allowing such conduct or having their customers paying for it. It won't happen.

The Postal Service also owes about $1.3 billion dollars to a worker's compensation fund to provide for their postal workers. Beside that the Postal Service owes approximately $5.4 billion dollars to a fund to provide for current and future retirees.

Folks, the Postal Service squandered billions and billions of dollars on these postal worker union employees to enjoy elaborate pensions, bonuses, freebies and free or near free health care. Why do you think that the price of stamps have continually gone up over the years? One of the major reasons was to provide the union benefits for the hundreds of thousands of postal employees.

These postal workers unions , like the teachers unions,(New York Teachers) build these ridiculous, unwarranted clauses in their contracts so they "cannot" be laid off or fired . They write in guarantees of continued employment and continued salaries even though they do no work whatsoever.

Who the devil are these incompetent, lazy, union vote pandering lawmakers that let the Postal unions and Teachers unions dictate their demands that are so obscene that any private employer would tell the employee to hit the street.

People, us taxpayers are paying for employees not to work, we are paying for the employees life time health care, and their families health care when the average middle class worker cannot even afford to buy their own health care. If they do, it is very expensive. We are paying for lucrative pensions and retirements to support these greedy union employees while Mr. & Mrs. middle America worker doesn't have any type of pension or retirement at all. If some middle class workers are lucky enough to actually receive a pension it is only a 401(k) retirement plan.

It's time to stop these unions from buying off the politicians. They promise the lawmakers massive, bloc votes in exchange for the guaranteed free health care, guaranteed promises of not being laid off or fired and fat, enormous pensions, bonuses and retirement plans.

Again, I say:
1. Congress, void all Federal union contacts, start over again.
2. Lay off 120,000 Postal Workers.
3. Instead of a separate pension, retirement plan for these union people make any federal employee pay into the Social Security program like every other private sector employee in the nation.
4. Make a retirement plan for these Federal union people like the ones the private sector worker has to rely on, - - that being a 401(k) retirement plan.

I predict that if Congress would follow my suggestion(s) they would find that there would be tens of thousands of people standing in line for those jobs and would be willing to work without "GUARANTEES" like the ones postal workers currently enjoy.

Further, if John or Jane Doe who may be working as a food server, convenience store worker, roofer, plumber etc., is required to depend on a Social Security check and a 401(k) when they stop working, the same should apply to these union workers. No more, no less.

No one group should be entitled and have guarantees that other employees do not have. Any person in the public sector should be able to be fired or laid off just like people in the private sector. Period! And, that's my opinion . Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com