mardi 29 octobre 2013

The Latest Thing to Blame the Tea Party For

Making sure that postal employees pensions are funded.




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The Nation emailed subscribers a note today asking for $120,272 in donations, a hefty chunk of change the journal will owe as a result of the “impending postal rate hike crisis,” as the note puts it.



“Tea Party–backed conservatives helped force the US Postal Service into requesting an emergency rate hike — one that will cost The Nation an additional $120,272 every year. While corporate media can handle this kind of a bill, The Nation can't foot it alone,” President Teresa Stack wrote to the nonprofit publication’s readers.



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But Stack’s personal take on the subject is more nuanced: “Postal politics are very complicated,” said Stack, a “postal nerd” in her own words. “[The Postal Service] will tell you the reason that they’ve lost so much money is because of these ridiculous pre-payments they have to make for future health benefits, which is something the Republican Congress will not compromise on.”



Those mean Republicans, making sure that future health benefits for postal workers are covered! And hooray for the Nation, for standing up for the principle that future health benefits can be funded from the never-ending stream of revenue that the postal service can expect!





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