| Kasz216 said: The USPS hasn't overpaid their Pension plan. Essentialy what happens is legally the USPS has agreed to prefund pension plans a lot more then most other companies/agencies. Which almost nobody else does. Which coincidentally is why retirees like the ones in detroit are getting screwed.
The USPS says they're overpaying based on what private companies have to pay. The "overpayment" claim is made by them claiming a new formula more in line with what people pay into pension plans ahead of time now. (Almost nothing... so they can screw over retirees whenever they have too. Hence why people at GM lose value in their pension plans when they no longer even have a union vote for their contracts.)
Essentially they are trying to screw over retirees by making claims that make republicans look like the bad guys while they secretly raiding the pension fund. It's essentially the EXACT kind of thing you and Khan would normally be against,(and should be!) clouded by blaming republicans. It's a hatchet job attempt to screw retirees in one of the few jobs where their pensions actually are mostly guranteed rather then false promises only honored when times are good. Dumping retirees on welfare whenever times turn bad.
Jobs that have pension funds should require a sane level of guranteed pension funding to protect retirees form getting screwed whenever a company hits hard times and bosses and current union workers both agree THEY don't want to face immediate cuts. |
Can you prove this though? They are the only company in the USA (and likely the world) that pays so high a rate ahead of time.
You say "Oh the outrage they're talking about is that they can't fuck over pensioners like other companies". I find the two ideas to be extremely different. Are you saying that virtually every company in the USA is fucking over their pensioners?
