GREAT ARTICLE!!! It is so refreshing to hear of those that envision a different Youngstown, and work to make it a reality. Every time I come home, I see the progress, and it is wonderful. Too many who live there, or used to live there need to open their eyes, and take a closer look around. Keep it up and, Todd, keep writing about the progress!!
REALLY CAPTDINGER???? YOU GO DO IT, THEN, AND TELL ME ABOUT IT! AS FOR OTHERS WHO DO AND MAKE LESS, I'LL ASK YOU, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT? PART OF THE PROTEST IS THAT FOLKS AREN'T GETTING PAID WHAT THEY ARE WORTH. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!
TO ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT POSTAL WORKERS ARE OVERPAID, GO DO THEIR JOB FOR 8+ HOURS, EITHER AT THE COUNTER, DEALING WITH ALL WALKS OF LIFE, OR CARRY THE MAIL IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WEATHER, FOR MORE THAN A FEW DAYS IN A ROW. EVERY ONE OF THOSE WORKERS HAS EARNED THEIR PAY, AND BENEFITS. PAY ATTENTION, NEXT TIME YOU'RE IN LINE AT THE POST OFFICE, AND WATCH WHAT HELL THEY TAKE DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
Here's the situation for those who keep blaming the internet and email. THIS IS WHAT'S KILLING THE POST OFFICE, for the 2nd time today: A congressional mandate is killing the U.S. Postal Service. A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years' worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years. At the behest of the Office of Personnel Management and the Government Accountability Office, and to make the law appear not to cost the government money (i.e., to be “revenue neutral”), Congress included in the law that destructive pre-funding mandate. No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule. This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 billion per year. It accounts for 100 percent of the Postal Service’s $20 billion in losses over the past four years. It also accounts for 100 percent of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years. Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces. The $47 billion the Postal Service has deposited so far into its retiree health fund over the past four years instead could have been spent on operating costs. The Postal Service and its employees don’t want a taxpayer bailout. We have not received any taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years. What we do want is the freedom to use our own surplus pension funds to pay down the pre-funding obligation. But this can only happen if Congress changes the current law. Please learn the facts before posting the "There's nothing we can do about it" comments. Stand up and fight!!!
Here's the situation for those who keep blaming the internet and email. THIS IS WHAT'S KILLING THE POST OFFICE: A congressional mandate is killing the U.S. Postal Service.
A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years' worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years. At the behest of the Office of Personnel Management and the Government Accountability Office, and to make the law appear not to cost the government money (i.e., to be “revenue neutral”), Congress included in the law that destructive pre-funding mandate.
No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule.
This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 billion per year. It accounts for 100 percent of the Postal Service’s $20 billion in losses over the past four years.
It also accounts for 100 percent of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years.
Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces.
The $47 billion the Postal Service has deposited so far into its retiree health fund over the past four years instead could have been spent on operating costs.
The Postal Service and its employees don’t want a taxpayer bailout. We have not received any taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years.
What we do want is the freedom to use our own surplus pension funds to pay down the pre-funding obligation.
But this can only happen if Congress changes the current law.
Please learn the facts before posting the "There's nothing we can do about it" comments. Stand up and fight!!!
Remaking downtown Youngstown
GREAT ARTICLE!!! It is so refreshing to hear of those that envision a different Youngstown, and work to make it a reality. Every time I come home, I see the progress, and it is wonderful. Too many who live there, or used to live there need to open their eyes, and take a closer look around. Keep it up and, Todd, keep writing about the progress!!
January 12, 2012 at 9:37 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Dozens voice plea to spare Youngstown postal facility
REALLY CAPTDINGER???? YOU GO DO IT, THEN, AND TELL ME ABOUT IT! AS FOR OTHERS WHO DO AND MAKE LESS, I'LL ASK YOU, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT? PART OF THE PROTEST IS THAT FOLKS AREN'T GETTING PAID WHAT THEY ARE WORTH. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!
December 30, 2011 at 11:55 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Dozens voice plea to spare Youngstown postal facility
TO ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT POSTAL WORKERS ARE OVERPAID, GO DO THEIR JOB FOR 8+ HOURS, EITHER AT THE COUNTER, DEALING WITH ALL WALKS OF LIFE, OR CARRY THE MAIL IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WEATHER, FOR MORE THAN A FEW DAYS IN A ROW. EVERY ONE OF THOSE WORKERS HAS EARNED THEIR PAY, AND BENEFITS. PAY ATTENTION, NEXT TIME YOU'RE IN LINE AT THE POST OFFICE, AND WATCH WHAT HELL THEY TAKE DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
December 29, 2011 at 5:08 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Dozens voice plea to spare Youngstown postal facility
Here's the situation for those who keep blaming the internet and email. THIS IS WHAT'S KILLING THE POST OFFICE, for the 2nd time today:
A congressional mandate is killing the U.S. Postal Service.
A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years' worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years. At the behest of the Office of Personnel Management and the Government Accountability Office, and to make the law appear not to cost the government money (i.e., to be “revenue neutral”), Congress included in the law that destructive pre-funding mandate.
No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule.
This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 billion per year. It accounts for 100 percent of the Postal Service’s $20 billion in losses over the past four years.
It also accounts for 100 percent of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years.
Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces.
The $47 billion the Postal Service has deposited so far into its retiree health fund over the past four years instead could have been spent on operating costs.
The Postal Service and its employees don’t want a taxpayer bailout. We have not received any taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years.
What we do want is the freedom to use our own surplus pension funds to pay down the pre-funding obligation.
But this can only happen if Congress changes the current law.
Please learn the facts before posting the "There's nothing we can do about it" comments. Stand up and fight!!!
December 29, 2011 at 5:01 p.m. permalink suggest removal
100s turn out to oppose proposed postal service closing
Here's the situation for those who keep blaming the internet and email. THIS IS WHAT'S KILLING THE POST OFFICE:
A congressional mandate is killing the U.S. Postal Service.
A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years' worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years. At the behest of the Office of Personnel Management and the Government Accountability Office, and to make the law appear not to cost the government money (i.e., to be “revenue neutral”), Congress included in the law that destructive pre-funding mandate.
No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule.
This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 billion per year. It accounts for 100 percent of the Postal Service’s $20 billion in losses over the past four years.
It also accounts for 100 percent of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years.
Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces.
The $47 billion the Postal Service has deposited so far into its retiree health fund over the past four years instead could have been spent on operating costs.
The Postal Service and its employees don’t want a taxpayer bailout. We have not received any taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years.
What we do want is the freedom to use our own surplus pension funds to pay down the pre-funding obligation.
But this can only happen if Congress changes the current law.
Please learn the facts before posting the "There's nothing we can do about it" comments. Stand up and fight!!!
December 29, 2011 at 9:11 a.m. permalink suggest removal