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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   news:52d9b034$0$52787$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   > On 1/17/2014 12:43 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>      Not to argue for the pod concept, but the USPS is ONLY going broke   
   >> because of a ludicrous requirement to fund retirement AHEAD of time...   
   >> for SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS. No other private OR government organization's   
   >> had to do that.   
   >>   
   > Also not helped by Congress vetoing every proposal to balance the USPS'   
   > budget.   
   >   
   > But I'm not sure I view pre-funding the retirement account as a bad idea   
   > given how many retirement funds have been looted to pay for executive's   
   > pay raises, business expansion, hostile takeovers, etc., leaving nothing   
   > to actually pay the retired with.  Maybe the level of pre-funding needs to   
   > be reviewed but I don't think the concept does.   
      
   It does when private business does not have to do that and only govt   
   operations that by definition don't get looted to pay for executive's   
   pay raises, business expansion, hostile takeovers, etc.   
      
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