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Hartmann in TruthOut ..

Things were going well for the Post Office. They were making money .. Republican Congressman John McHugh (NY) [] a member of the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, and was deeply in the pocket of right-wing interests. In 2006, he succeeded in proposing and then watching pass the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act .. What the law did was ram a poison pill down the throat of the Post Office. It required the USPS to pre-funding its Retiree Health Benefits Fund for more than seven decades out into the future .. It’s an obligation that no other private business or government agency has ever had to comply with before. And it costs the Post Office $5 billion a year .. So this plan to kill the Post Office has, so far, been executed flawlessly by the Republican Party and its corporate overlords. But even they couldn’t have expected all the help they’ve received in the years since from a mainstream corporate media that fails over and over again to report on what’s really happening with the Post Office

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