Senator Rand Paul Has No Idea Why The USPS Appears To Be Failing, But He Blames Unions

[Omaha Steve]

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RAND PAUL (Stump Source FLIKR CC)

Announced today he is running for POTUS.

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http://nhlabornews.com/2015/04/senator-rand-paul-has-no-idea-why-the-usps-to-appear-to-be-failing-but-he-blames-unions/

By Bill Brickley | April 7, 2015

With much fanfare Rand Paul has officially kicked off his Stand with Rand presidential campaign. He is arguably the most anti worker candidate on the American political landscape.

Paul never strays from being a front man for the wealthy with his extreme anti union beliefs. For Postal workers his message is clear as he advocates an end to collective bargaining rights for postal workers when their current contracts expire. He says he is not “opposed to all unions” he just believes unions are inappropriate for public service workers.

For other union workers his thoughts are just as clear as he proudly introduced a National Right to Work Bill in the Senate. The National Right to Work Committee has given Paul $20,000 already this election cycle which is 57% of all the money it has handed out to all other politicians combined. So you can easily say that Rand Paul has essentially become the national spokesman for Right to Work. This kind of belies his man of the people messaging

When speaking on Postal Reform a month ago in Florida he blasted the Postal Service:
“There are two sectors in the economy. The productive sector: you. And the non-productive sector: the people who live in Washington. They don’t make anything. They can’t even run the post office. They say we are going to project our power and we create new nations around the world. We can’t run our own post office. They came to me last year on my committee and you know what they said, ‘we need bonuses for people at the post office.’ They said ‘you’ve got to pay people to retain talent. To get talented people you’ve got to pay them.’ I said ‘how much talent does it take to lose a billion dollars a quarter.’” I am not quite sure that Postal Bonuses were a major topic in the postal reform mark up. I am quite sure that postal union workers do not receive any bonuses. Plus the USPS has turned an operational profit over the last few years.


FULL story at link. About the video below...Edit: An easy to read version of how my deduction went up over several yearpage 76C: http://www.cityofomaha.org/humanresources/images/stories/public_documents/union_contracts//Local%20251%20Labor%20Agreement%202009%20-%202012%20Clean%20Version.pdf

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Rand Paul Falsely Claims That Public Workers Don't Contribute To Their Pensions And Health Care Plans

[Gothmog]

1. Rand Paul is an idiot

The fact that he is confused and is willing to blame a third party like unions should not surprise anyone

[cascadiance]

2. He should blame his OWN PARTY for pushing the pension plan on USPS

that no other entity in private or public sector has had to put in place because of its stupid requirements for advance funding that is forcing it in to heavy debt that it wouldn't be in if it weren't for that.

The GOP party members should be the ones that pay these retirement fund payments if they believe it so important to have in place, that they as part of the private sector would NEVER put in place at a private sector company.

They just believe in getting people in debt that they don't like or aren't their rich buddies, so that they can take that money themselves and then just say we all need to go in to more debt to pay off the government debt that is made that way because their rich buddies pay less in taxes.

[TBF]

3. Such a tool .... nt

[Danascot]

4. You mean it isn't

abortion & homosexuality?

[Starry Messenger]

5. My mailman came *twice* yesterday to deliver a package he'd been trying to get to me for 4 days.

The last time he came up after 5 pm and buzzed the door and finally got me at home. It needed a signature and he kept missing me. You think a minimum wage guy working on a speed-up would be able to do that? I thanked him profusely.

[yallerdawg]

6. Not so strict Constitutionalist?

Article 1, Section 8, clause 7 of the US Constitution: To establish Post Offices and post Roads.

I guess he's just a politician. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."