"More than half of the 415,000-member UPS workforce is unionized, primarily with the Teamsters. FedEx has 280,000 workers, and only 5,000, all airplane pilots, are unionized."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/12/08/fedex-and-ups-feud-over-u...

Eh, it's one of many necessary budget "adjustments." Since Reagan, we spent unprecedented amounts of money on only two things: the military and upward wealth redistribution. It's impossible to maintain a country with these economic priorities. We've been paying corps to ship our jobs out of the country, resulting in a shrinking tax revenues, more debt. The middle class told Clinton to "balance the budget." This was done by ending aid for the poorest, resulting in a unique (among modern nations) situation: increased infant mortality rates among our poor, and the life expectancy of America's poor has actually fallen below that of most Third World countries! This generation is cool with that. Now the middle class is demanding another tax cut in spite of massive military debts, etc. Where to get the money? While the Obama administration refuses to say, there are indications that the middle class tax cut will be paid for by slashing/ending Social Security Disability aid. And just as this issue came up, wouldn't you know it, we see President Obama warmly embracing Clinton, welcoming the Blue Dog back into the White House. So, sans any comment from the Obama admin., we assume that Clinton will help Obama "reform" Social Security the way he "reformed" welfare.

Its the perfect example of what is so tragically wrong in America. remove the poisen and there would be no issue, right? so then who in fact should be held accountable? for 20 + years i don't think i've ever, for personal use, felt compelled to use fed-ex or ups over the postal service. the post office will get it there tomorrow if i need it to and its price is relative. it might just be that i'm opposed to , say , fed ex because they are just another monster corporation that could care less about much of anything other then making mountains of money. and probably don't pay muc in taxes either. its like when i go to the market now, they have those self check systems that my wife just loves but i see the cashier and think, "what if? what will it be like when the corporate machine has managed to consume and devour every half way decent paying job to automation and cheap labor? if you think its bad now?" As a society we should be ralying for the postal system. it is iconic! i once even aspired to be a postal dude!lolol and what will my dog do? its like excecise to her when the post man brings the mail. chases him half way down the street...

Did I miss something? I though they where making them pay more into there retiree health benifits not stopping rural mail delivery. What are the republicans doing to working families I thought the Dems where running things.

why is this not all over the papers and the news and why is nothing being done about it? i have no desire in doing on line bill pay!

The Tea Party and the corporations are doing their best to rip our institutions to shreds. This includes the Post Office, the schools, police & fire departments, EPA and many other governmental agencies.

This is another victory for the country of Brown Brothers & Harriman. See what Brown can do for you.

They are not only dismantling a once secure and cherished U.S. tradition, your mail person, but casting their 75 year old private unpaid pipeline and railroad mortgage debts onto the backs of the public.

2006-75 years= 1931.

In 1931 the Florida East Railroad commenced the longest railroad bankruptcy in U.S. history which was settled $.40 on the dollar in 1970 just in time for the Penn-Central bankruptcy (lost governement bail-outs) and the "creation" of Freddie Mac.

In 1931 The Wabash was in receivership.

1931 Aetna bonded Bechtel for the Hoover Dam, Bechtel being the only bidder who could afford the bond. Revenue Bonds were issued for the dam. ("Aetna formally crafted a pension product in 1930")

1931 Pipeline mortgage of the North American Pipeline (these are usually 50-75 years)

2/8/2006 Effective repeal by Congress of the Public Utility Holding Company Act

Bif and Dif

March 31, 2006, the FDIC merged the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) into a new fund, the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF). 3/31/2006

3/31/2006 (WAWA- Carlyle National Office Partners) NOP 1001 Fourth LLC assigned Safeco mortgages to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

(aka ABN AMRO) SAFECO MANAGED BOND TRUST Expiration Date 03/31/2006

More of what Brown did for you in 2006, they fixed your freight costs for the future:

6/30/2006 : NEW ENGLAND MOTOR FREIGHT, INC. Origin: NEW JERSEY (Shevell)

6/30/2006 ( North American Van Lines) SIRVA SETTLEMENT, INC. : 6070 PARKLAND BLVD, MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH 44124: 2006070300074 Status: Active Creation : 6/30/2006 Original Creation : 1/31/2000 Original Creation State: OH

EASTERN FREIGHT WAYS, INC. 09/13/2006 State NEW JERSEY Agent MYRON P SHEVELL Name & Address NANCY SHEVELL SAME Agent Zip 62703

"In November 2006, Prince Bandar, the former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, now back in Riyadh as the national security advisor to King Abdullah, orchestrated a secret visit to the Kingdom by Vice President Dick Cheney. The primary topic was Cheney's promotion of an American military strike against Iran,"

12/8/2006 12/08/2006 Entity Name: BAIN CAPITAL (CC) IX OFFSHORE, L.P.

In 2006, Scott Rothstein was busily engaged with North American Van Lines Beltmann Group. 22 To ROTHSTEIN,SCOTT BELTMANN GROUP INC 12/18/2006 Release/ Revoke/Satisfy or Terminate O 43285 641 106679157

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If Obama wins, it will be 4 more years of more of the same. If Romney wins, it might just be the last straw that will set the masses in motion to overthrow the tyranny of the elite powers in this Country. The ruling elite knows this and although they would love to have Romney in power, providing it didn't trigger a revolution of the masses, they realize that their "tool" (or "fool") to quell that possibility lies with an Obama win. Think of it this way....if the ruling elite didn't want Obama to win...do you really think they would have chosen such a nitwit flunky like Romney to run against him? There are lots of Republicans that could have been much more palatable and less threatening to more people than Romney.

The whole reason why the ruling elite (and not the Republican politicians who are just pawns of the ruling elite as well) wanted someone like Romney to run against Obama was because they wanted to scare the crap out of anyone thinking about voting for a third party candidate. Many of Obama's supporters who voted for him the first time are very unhappy with his performance in the last four years and want to vote for a third party candidate. So, the ruling elite uses tactics (running Romney) that will scare them into remaining in the fold of voting for Obama once again.

Thanks to the corrupt two-party system we have all become frogs in a slowly boiling pot. It is time for us frogs to jump out of that pot before it is too late...it may already be too late...like Global Warming...Climate Change...whatever you want to call it. The only thing that might help to change is to finally break that chain of corruption, black-mail, fraud, and duress is to massively, over-whelmingly vote for a third party candidate. And even then, I would surmise that even they would eventually have to back-track on what they originally stood for because the corrupting powers would be too great. But, it would be a history-changer and a sign that things have to be done to change the course of corruption.

I suspect that even if Al Gore had won the Presidency, that even he would have eventually had to play ball with the corporate elite and compromise on what we all believed he stood for. I believe that no matter who wins the Presidency...if they don't play ball with the elite powers in the US then they would eventually meet with the same fate as JFK. We have an illusion of a political system but the real people that hide behind it and control it are not controlled by the political system or the collective powers, or their laws, of the people of the US. They are ruthless and will stop at nothing to maintain their wealth and power.

As Jack Nicholson said in the movie... A Few Good Men...."You can't handle the truth!". And most Americans will continue to act out the illusionary games that have been manufactured by the ruling elite..and will continue to do nothing more than go to the polls and vote for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum. Then they will sit and twiddle their thumbs again and frown and fret as to why things aren't getting any better.

Change is coming after the 2012 Presidential Elections. When the flood of SUPER PAC money hits the fan in October 2012 Americans will finally get the message that we must change the law that allows unlimited funds to flow into our election process including from foreign corporations and American corporations. We will finally be fed up with the madness. The Republican Party mouths that they do not like hiding donor names however they gladly receive the funds without complaint. The Republicans are disgusting and at the same time they are corrupting the political process. Nothing corrupts more than money and the Republicans are in bed with billionaires who have no conscience.

From my view, one of the largest flaws of the Constitution is not just the saying “we the people”, as this saying is very much grossly convoluted by mainstream media. To address this towards the American banking system which is tightly connected to international affairs is the problem that is not “self – evident”. Yes Mr., and Mrs. America we the people now know these truths are not self-evident. Again, the key players, the media, hate radio and sedition cable, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Savage, of course the Karl Rove the master hate message meister loaded with Wahhabi oil money pounds away, deliberate, intentional, deception, fraud, which is criminal, all in our face license by our government, we the people, in the electromagnetic spectrum. It feels like America gets slapped silly while they take our tax money.

Yes the Bush Cheney conglomerate always was tightly connected to Arab oil money. From my view the keystone pipeline of money laundering was sheltered by mainstream media during the Bush years. Totally bribing media commercial time, likely inducing fat payroll contacts.

A very devastating book by C. Lewis “the buying of the President” gives detailed examples of the Stampede by Companies such as Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, Cheney Bush companies making partnerships in the Cayman Islands while having principal business office six blocks from the White House. What happened to the media then? Bought off through legal commercial advertising. The media from Joe in the morning to red eye at night have no morals; they took the money and screwed America back then. And now.

Now Romney getting nailed for avoiding taxes through those similar kind money operations had been accomplished by Bush and Cheney. Again according to C. Lewis, for the center of public integrity said it very well to show the unholy business of these men. C. Lewis said “if history is any guide, George W. Bush will not seek to undo the regulations that helped hide so many financial transactions from view. After his entire presidency has been characertized by a zeal for secrecy, an unrelenting push to stem the free flow of information.”

Here the key to the unholy hypocrites, the Republican mantra, remove regulation, but it’s excellent to have regulation to hide corruption, graft, and criminally insane money laundering, a great plus to have regulation on Senate and Congressional rules or procedures. Or worse have siblings well connected working against America. Exampled as Scalia’s son, Justice Scalia's oldest son, Eugene, followed his father into law and is currently in private practice. He was one of the attorneys representing George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, (2000), which addressed the Florida election recount. Talk about in your face unholy connecting Scalia to help the newly appointed decider. Nothing in the media, Scalia did not recuse himself did he? Obviously a total injustice, Scalia did not excuse himself from the case because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality. The media obviously bought off. Huge in your face corruption.

Then the media is trying to figure why the young people are telling us all something. By deliberate atrocities.