[muawiyah]

Notice the use of the term "government backed" ~ actually USPS has a Constitutional basis ~ just like Congress or the Presidency or the Courts, or the provision to admit new states.

Do not be fooled by propaganda.

Now, the real issue ~ the EXCESS FUNDS invested by USPS in the federal retirement system should be returned to the employees on whose behalf USPS acted. That can be done by recomputing their retirement annuities to reflect the overpayments.

The money should NOT be given to users or to Congress or to other federal agencies,.

[aposiopetic]

Resistance in such a case makes sense.

Alas, Congress tries to raid fees received from inventors by the Patent Office, too, to support the bailout-du-jour etc.

[jbp1]

I’d disagree, as it appears that what has happened is that the gov’t took too much TAXPAYER $$ and put into the USPS CSRS. That being the case, that money should be used only to pay down the national debt, and the national budget should be reduced by the same amount. Period. Not used to fund a single friggin program.

Congress - worthless bunch of ba$tard$.

However, if it were USPS employee $$, then of course Uncle Sam should give it back to them. However, if this were the case, there would already be about 10,000 John Edwards clones filing class action suits right now.