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Originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general had proposed. in my view, it did not go far enough. i brought together two dozen members of the senate. we are working on now what's called a ...

Park on this one, democrats. my guest on this has a better solution for all of it. i'm joined tonight by bernie sanders, independent senator from vermont. senator, good to have you with us tonight. this is one of these stories that i think i have to tell maybe every three weeks or once a month before the election. because i'm hearing on the radio, well, gosh, i didn't know that stamps pay for everything. i'm hearing on the radio, well, i didn't know about this 75-year thing into a ten-year window. no business could do that. so i ask you, senator, what is congress going to do? what do you think...

Other thing we're required to pre fund employee health benefits, 5.5 billion a year. >> you're paying 3 billion dollars a year in retirement health pensions, not health, but pensions and 8 billion in health benefits for a whopping total of 11 billion dollars, you're paying former postal employees. the question tonight, what is a post office dilemma tell us about big government? joining us from washington, fox news analyst charles krauthammer. it always comes back to this, in the public sector, they run out of money and the taxpayers can't keep up and the pensions and health benefits bankruptin...

Other thing we're required to pre fund employee health benefits, 5.5 billion a year. >> you're paying 3 billion dollars a year in retirement health pensions, not health, but pensions and 8 billion in health benefits for a whopping total of 11 billion dollars, you're paying former postal employees. the question tonight, what is a post office dilemma tell us about big government? joining us from washington, fox news analyst charles krauthammer. it always comes back to this, in the public sector, they run out of money and the taxpayers can't keep up and the pensions and health benefits bankruptin...

Other thing we're required to pre fund employee health benefits, 5.5 billion a year. >> you're paying 3 billion dollars a year in retirement health pensions, not health, but pensions and 8 billion in health benefits for a whopping total of 11 billion dollars, you're paying former postal employees. the question tonight, what is a post office dilemma tell us about big government? joining us from washington, fox news analyst charles krauthammer. it always comes back to this, in the public sector, they run out of money and the taxpayers can't keep up and the pensions and health benefits bankruptin...