List of ways that CONS have WEAKENED our U.S.Gov.,

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DELIBERATELY out of an EVIL HATE for it or STUPIDLY out of DELIBERATE IGNORANCE:

THIS is my #1 (not chronologically or even of importance; just relevant today to show just what ends they will go to to destroy US):

A 2006 law mandates that the Postal Service pay health benefits 75 years into the future at a cost of $5.5 billion a year. That, according to Allison Kilkenny in today's Truth Out, puts an impossibly large burden on the agency. She writes "Congress was mandating coverage for future human beings. It was an impossible order. And strangely, a task unshared by any other government service, agency, corporation or organization within the entire United States. It was this, and not the invention of e-mail that became the Postal Service's death knell."

On top of that, because of a simple accounting error, the agency has overpaid its pension fund by $50 billion. Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat of Massachusetts, has introduced legislation to correct the error and balance the Post Office books. But Darrell Issa, Republican of California, has introduced another bill -- The Postal Reform Act, which could further imperil the agency's finances and its unions. Postal Union representative Chuck Zlatkin told The Nation Issa's bill would "Wisconsin" the Postal Service, and allow Congress to "rip into the contracts, close post offices without hearings -- it's basically the Postal Service Destruction Act."

Feel free to add to this LIST in subsequent replies.

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1. LINK:

http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/allison-kilkenny-on-the-solution-to-the-u-s-postal-services-financial-woes