Harry Reid Says SAVE The Post Office, because Seniors Depend on Their Junk Mail
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
Boston, Massachusetts
April 19, 2012 8:00pm CST
Harry Reid is pushing a bill to reform the Postal Service, because if we don't, seniors who rely on their junk mail to feel connected with the world will be made very sad.
“I’ll come home tonight here to my home in Washington and there’ll be some mail there,” the Nevada Democrat said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “A lot of it is what some people refer to as junk mail, but for the people who are sending that mail, it’s very important.
“And when talking about seniors, seniors love getting junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
Now, I won't bother relating all the really -- umm...searching for an adjective here -- insipid? inane? insane? demented? (just pick one) things that Harry Reid has said in the past, but if you take them all as a whole, don't you just wonder why no one has suggested he be screened for senile dementia?
Of course we should continue to pour money down the big postal hole, because even though most of what they carry is third class junk mail, there are old people out there who think it's real mail and it makes them happy in their dotage.
And apparently, being in the Senate makes Harry Reid happy in his dotage, and if he were unemployed ever, he might be in danger of becoming an abuser. After all, it was Reid who said men beat their wives because they don't have jobs.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/19/reid-save-postal-service-seniors-depend-on-junk-mail/?test=latestnews
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
20 Apr 12
I believe that Harry Reid is currently the nation's biggest example, in terms of an elected official, of the power of the left-wing political machine. Like you, I believe that Reid has some serious issues. He's punchy, or he's "flickted" as my grandmother used to say. He's precious. But, damn, he didn't have to do much to win. Media tried to make it seem like the race was tight, but was it really? He seemed to coast in save a week of close polling.
I hadn't heard this yet. It gives me a laugh, for sure. The most recent Reid story I heard was yesterday, when they played soundbites of Reid blasting the Bush administration for taking Las Vegas OFF the table of the list of places the GSA could vacation. Reid's insistence got them put back on. Oops. But, again, the machine has him covered, Obamabots blame Bush. So Bush is blamed.
Harry seems to really long for home. He cries when he's forced to stay in DC to actually work. He longs to get home to watch his trees bloom. And when he begins to get flustered, he loves going through his junk mail to feel as if somebody cares.
Maybe it's time for full-time care. He can go sit in on a little patio, watching the trees grow and playing with junk mail.
That's better than blocking budgets and being a total phuckup.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
20 Apr 12
Some of Reid's ridiculous rhetoric can be excused (or at least I have been generous enough to excuse it) because of his age and the times he grew up in. We're not all up-to-date on pop culture and Reid is of another age.
But if this is his best offering, the argument upon which he founds his support for a bill on a serious problem, then something is amiss. Obviously, there are politicians with whom one will disagree. But I want to disagree with them because I think their arguments are faulty, not because I think they are rambling incoherently.
I think Reid only has two major political strategies: Push through what the President wants at any cost and by any means, no matter how suspicious the legality of his procedural guidance; or, block anything the Republican House sends up to the Senate, just 'cause he can.
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
20 Apr 12
Why don't he say the most obvious....JOBS! Closing the USPS will loose TONS of jobs...from the mail carriers to the in office sorters, to the counter clerks to the truck and plane drivers that transport it all over the country!Not to mention those that the USPS uses to facilitate their work, like the mechanics that maintain the carrier trucks, evensmall things like the gardners that maintain the property, the rent they pay someone for the buidings etc. And all those that will be unemployed will now be on unemployment...and NOT paying any taxes which is the governments source of revenue!
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
20 Apr 12
my thoughts exactly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
The USPS employs over 574,000 workers and operates over 218,000 vehicles.[3] It is the 2nd largest civilian employer in the United States.[3] The USPS is the operator of the largest vehicle fleet in the world.[4] The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality.
Cuts to the postal service also disproportionately affect veterans and blacks, who for decades have been able to obtain Post Office jobs when they couldn't get others.
And HERE is the real reason for the proposed shut down, one that Harry Reid could change if he really wanted to.
Of related significance is the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA), which obligates the USPS to prefund 75-years worth of future health care benefit payments to retirees within a ten-year time span — a requirement to which no other government organization is subject.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
20 Apr 12
Harry Reid must be speaking for himself. Who would want to actually write to that nasty old man. I am a senior and hate all the junk mail I get.
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@millertime (1394)
• United States
27 Apr 12
Every time Harry Reid opens his mouth, he proves just how clueless he really is... And they call Joe Biden the gaff machine. Line up Reid, Biden and Nancy Pelosi and they could do a good impression of the Three Stooges. Hey Moe! nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...
