A group of current and retired U.S. Postal Service workers is holding a four-day hunger strike on Capitol Hill that started today. The strike is intended to pressure Congress to act on the Service’s budget problems.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has thrown his 95 lbs. of support behind the strikers.

“Make no mistake about it, there is an effort to try to privatize even more postal services,” said Kucinich. ”And this would inevitably result in less service, and higher costs for postal service for the American people.”

Kucinich, however, has opted not to participate in the actual strike. The man’s gotta eat. And he’s one calorie away from being see-through.

[The Hill]