Darrell Issa actually said...

If we take that money and we sell it and we put it into Apple or we put it into gold futures or anything else, we may or may not make money.

General Motors is a public company, so we have lost that much money.

if I could be insured for the less than the risk, I would always buy that insurance.

In my opinion, this announcement was an unfortunate development, and it will not solve the Postal Service's long-term fiscal problems.