Postal Employees Paid to Do Nothing


	Postal Employees Paid to Do Nothing

Eaglewings

10-3-2009 1:10 PM

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federal employess union, fraud, government waste, labor relations, post office, unionized labor, usps, waste

Eaglewings says:

I do not know about where you work, but where I work when the company does not have any work for me I do not work and I do not get paid. Unless of course I happen to qualify for unemployment benefits which pays me about 1/3 of what I would make if I actually worked.

To add insult to injury, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is now going to BAIL OUT the post office and FORCE US TO PAY these idle workers OUT OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

And then we wonder why taxes continue to climb while those of us who actually make this country work continue to have to cut back and struggle to make ends meet.

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