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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWant to know ONE Federal agency that won't be butchered by the sequester cuts? (For a change?)
THE POST OFFICEThat's right, you stupid beltway clowns. After DECADES of beating up on the USPS, one of the unintended consequences of making it self-funding is that YOU CAN'T CUT IT ANYMORE.
HAH! Take that!
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Want to know ONE Federal agency that won't be butchered by the sequester cuts? (For a change?) (Original Post)
TrollBuster9090
Feb 2013
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TDale313
(7,820 posts)1. Well, that is a silver lining. n/t
TinkerTot55
(198 posts)2. They won't be able to beat up on the USPS....
....because both "hands" are STRANGLING the USPS at the moment.
Why do Republicans HATE our Founding Fathers? ( Conservatives never loved that far-left, French-loving, highly-literate, science-loving B. Franklin anyway! )
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)3. +1
Thav
(946 posts)4. I've been trying to ship USPS as often as I can
I feel good about doing it, too.
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)5. The VA is supposed to be safe too, but they now say they can do a 2% cut to admin.
So I guess the disability paperwork backlog will just get that much longer.