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Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land
- Subject: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land
- From: jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:09:12 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
> What's different about the Post Office is that they're required to pre-fund
> for 75 years. Yes, you read that right - they need to pay in *now* for
> the pension fund of mail carriers who won't even be born for another
> decade.
And if that had not been passed (by a MUMBLE Congress), then instead of being
$6B in the red, they'd be about $1.5B in the black.
So let us not hang the need to "save" USPS on Congress, when they caused the
problem in the first place.
And let's move this thread to nanog-politics, k?
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com
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