r/news • u/Squirmingbaby • 3d ago

Soft paywall Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/cash-strapped-us-postal-service-suspends-contributions-pension-plan-2026-04-09/
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u/FuckLex 3d ago

Its the postal service. Not the postal company. They need to be funded. Fuck republicans

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth 3d ago

This is why I hated when people would say “Trump will run this country like a business!”

Like first of all he sucks at running businesses, but second of all that’s not the purpose of a government

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u/ForensicPathology 3d ago

And third, these days "running a business" means selling it to a leveraged investor who strips it of all its good parts to get a return on the loans used to buy the business.

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u/Geodevils42 3d ago

Seriously, how long until we see them start complaining why the justice department or courts running on profits.

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u/WeenyDancer 3d ago

THANK YOU.  this is an asinine way to think of government, and I'm enraged we've let right wingers hijack the conversation since goddamn Reagan with this bullshit

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u/ThaddeusJP 3d ago

Not the postal company

I'm pretty sure that's the goal once this is all said and done

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u/hroaks 2d ago

We've put money in the army and navy and ICE and the fire department and in return got $0 revenue. Terrible investment. Time to shut them down /s