Nancy Pelosi: ‘No Business that I Can Think of Would Ever Be Saddled with What We’ve Done to the Postal Service’

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PELOSI: "When people say, 'Well, it doesn’t pay its own way' — it’s not a business, it’s a service. And while we always want to subject every federal dollar to the scrutiny of what we’re getting for it, let us remember that it is a service. No business that I can think of would ever be saddled with what we’ve done to the Postal Service saying that in 2006, a bill passed that said that the Postal Service should pay 75 years of its health benefits in 10 years. 75 years of its health benefits in 10 years. That is a responsibility that I don’t think most businesses could meet and also come out on top. Earlier this year, Mr. DeFazio put forth a bill to limit what that is. So, when they say it doesn’t pay us, well, we had to do these cuts, and those cuts, and those cuts, we’re cutting service. We’re cutting service. Not we, but the new Postmaster General.”

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