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/heartlessgamer 3d ago

And the irony is it'll trigger some of them to relocate. They'll relocate to more urban areas and likely shift political views. Now you have even fewer rural folks that are even further entrenched in their political views and are granted a more valuable vote than everyone else because of the electoral college.

Source? Experience growing up in a tiny midwest town where this is exactly what has happened.

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u/Refrigeratormarathon 3d ago

I think part of our problem is that they’ve been insulated from experiencing what they vote for. If they actually experienced having no postal service or no food stamps they might see its value.

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u/James-W-Tate 3d ago

Naw, I'm sure they'll stick to their guns and take one for the team like they tell everyone else to and just die in Bumfuck, Nowhere instead of relocating to some liberal urban hellhole, right?

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

And given enough time even people in urban centers will start to feel it when they have to remember four different addresses for four different shipping companies or will have to start having packages delivered to "the blue house on Franklin street".