I mean fucking up the post office is kind of a presidential rite of passage isn't it?
Can you name one?
President Obama would allow the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service to scrap Saturday delivery and delay some required healthcare payments, under proposals in the White House's 2015 budget.
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Namely, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006.
Passed by a Republican-led Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush, the PAEA gave the Postal Service new accounting and funding rules for its retiree pension and health benefits. Up until 2006, the USPS funded those obligations on a pay-as-you-go-basis, pulling out of its pension fund and adding to it as retirees' costs came in. But the PAEA required the Postal Service to calculate all of its likely pension costs over the next 75 years, and then sock away enough money between 2007 and 2016 to cover most of them.
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WASHINGTON -- President Reagan asked Congress Monday to cut the Postal Service subsidy for nonprofit mail to $500 million, a decrease of $119 million.
Just a few you tds bitch