{"id":2739,"date":"2011-09-02T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-09-02T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:49:18","slug":"spending-taxpayers-money-to-bash-the-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/spending-taxpayers-money-to-bash-the-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Taxpayers Money to Bash the USPS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/APWU-News.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2740\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/APWU-News-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rep. Issa Does It Again! Spending Taxpayers\u2019 Money to Bash the USPS?<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>APWU Web News\u00a0-Sept. 2, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who likes to portray himself as a fierce opponent of wasting taxpayers\u2019 money, has created a slick, high-tech Web site that bashes the Postal Service, using \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<p>The Web site, a production of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is intended to generate support for legislation sponsored by Rep. Issa that would destroy the Postal Service as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>H.R. 2309 would close thousands of post offices, shutter hundreds of mail processing facilities, end Saturday mail delivery, and eliminate workers\u2019 collective bargaining rights. In true Washington double-speak, the Web site dedicated to dismantling the nation\u2019s mail system is called \u201cSaving the Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In testimony before the committee on April 5, 2011, APWU President Cliff Guffey pointed out: \u201cThis hearing is costing more in tax dollars than the Postal service gets in tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guffey was intent on demolishing the myth \u2014 frequently promoted by Rep. Issa \u2014that the USPS relies on taxpayer support and will soon be in need of a bailout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Issa Does It Again! Spending Taxpayers\u2019 Money to Bash the USPS? APWU Web News\u00a0-Sept. 2, 2011 Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who likes to portray himself as a fierce opponent of wasting taxpayers\u2019 money, has created a slick, high-tech Web site that bashes the Postal Service, using \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 taxpayers\u2019 money. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}