bit of poison pill legislation slipped into pay into place during the bush years the requires the u.s.p.s. to set aside over just a ten year period and have cash to pay the health benefits of retirees for the next seventy five years seriously post office has to pay billions a year into a fund to pay for retirement health care for employees who are not yet even or no other government or corporate group or agency has ever been asked to do this it was purely to create a crisis in the postal service so republicans could demand that it be broken up and privatized a gift to their campaign donors to the private delivery services and create a crisis that did according to the postmaster general of the postal service will be broke by next summer unless the federal government can step in and take action but the action being proposed is darrell ises republican house plan it creates a special board that can lay off employees even if they're protected by collective bargaining agreements basically blowing up union rights so you could end up with a guy who works a second job delivering pizza delivering y

that's very true it's not the only ripple effect that the complete closure of the u.s.p.s. would have in the united states the post office is the second largest employer in the united states wal-mart which makes it the largest unionized employer in the entire nation republicans are desperate to destroy that union which regularly goes for the democrats so you can see how important this battle is and why they put in their ways and the legislation in the first place our next comment is also from twitter last week after the execution of troy davis i asked of psychopaths had taken over america they were are we have benj full nation of psychopaths a bloodthirsty people who can sleep just fine at night knowing that the united states may have just executed an innocent man. if you've watched the republican debates and seen the crowds applaud death and seen gov rick perry said that he has no trouble sleeping at night over the two hundred thirty four people he's killed in texas and it sure seems like we're. your state has executed two hundred thirty four death row inmates more than an