My husband Tom is a Postal worker, and this is a letter left for him at work. Attached is a letter regarding a bill that was set to be voted upon today by Congress forcing retirement age Postal workers to retire. No one notified them of this bill, and they are simply trying to sneak this through without anyone knowing.

Update:

Fortunately, this bill was voted down:

A measure that would have required eligible postal service employees to retire without buyout incentives failed in the Senate on Tuesday. The amendment, introduced this week by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., would have reduced the cash-strapped agency’s expenses by reducing its large percentage of retirement-eligible workers. It failed in a 33-65 vote.

“There is a real risk that these buyouts will go to workers who would already be planning to retire anyway,” Coburn’s office said of the retirement provisions in the 21st Century Postal Service Act, (S. 1789), which was still being debated at publication time. “These buyouts may essentially be retirement gifts to already-retiring workers.”

The Senate was still debating other amendments to the sweeping postal reform legislation Tuesday evening, including measures prohibiting collective bargaining at USPS, to increase the amount workers contribute to their health benefits and life insurance, and to limit pay for USPS executives.

Read the entire story here

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The CNN panel agreed that he appears to be somebody who will do what he needs to get elected. This needs to be remembered in the general election.

March 26, 2012, on CNN

- Alexander Hamilton

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CNN has flip-flopped again. Tuesday they were all saying Romney was the presumptive winner of the GOP, and now they are saying it is arrogant of Romney to assume that. Then they admit that Romney himself has not said anything on the issue, but still smear him as if he had. Then, of course, they give case in point with the abortion issue and how Santorum is attacking Mitt over changing positions, without EVER letting the public know that Santorum changed also.

The firestorm created by Romney’s aid over the etcha-sketch is getting a lot of air time. I can only imagine how irritated Mitt must be over that ridiculous gaff of his aid. This played perfectly into the hands of Santorum, Gingrich, and the press who all want to pretend that the race goes on. Romney explained that his aid meant that the kind of race they will run organizationally, will change when they directly take on Obama, but admittedly, that was not how it sounded. Frankly, Eric Ferhnstrom seriously blew it. I am very irritated with him myself. And on goes the ugly mess of politics.

Arbutus, Maryland (CNN) – Mitt Romney promised Wednesday that he would not change his positions if he wins the Republican presidential nomination, hours after a top adviser compared the general election to an Etch A Sketch toy and claimed that Romney can “shake it up” and “start all over again” in the fall.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/21/romney-tries-to-clean-up-etch-a-sketch-mess/

Another big moment tonight was hearing CNN analyst finally stop spinning Romney’s fundraising skills. Instead of this being a negative, they admitted that for someone to take on Obama with his huge campaign machine and funding, that candidate needs to have the skill and ability to raise money and put together an effective organization. What has been obvious to us for months is now being voiced. A change is in the air.

One possible reason that the media is no longer stumping for Santorum is because he has gone so far overboard that they would look foolish to ignore his gaffs. Yesterday, Rick said he doesn’t care what the unemployment rate is. He also spent time vacationing in Puerto Rico instead of campaigning. The writing is not only on the wall, it is singing loudly. Mitt will be taking on Obama.

-Benjamin Franklin

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