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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 05:18 AM Feb 2013

Want to know ONE Federal agency that won't be butchered by the sequester cuts? (For a change?)

THE POST OFFICE

That'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 OP
Well, that is a silver lining. n/t TDale313 Feb 2013 #1
They won't be able to beat up on the USPS.... TinkerTot55 Feb 2013 #2
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2013 #3
I've been trying to ship USPS as often as I can Thav Feb 2013 #4
The VA is supposed to be safe too, but they now say they can do a 2% cut to admin. Sirveri Feb 2013 #5

TinkerTot55

(198 posts)
2. They won't be able to beat up on the USPS....
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 07:24 AM
Feb 2013

....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! )

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.
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 09:38 PM
Feb 2013

So I guess the disability paperwork backlog will just get that much longer.

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