I sometimes wonder if there is anyone more tone deaf than Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV). While arguing for what might be a perfectly reasonable bill, it sounds like there is something in it that keeps the subsidy for junk mail. From the April 18, 2012 The Hill:
"Madam President," Reid said to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the presiding officer of the Senate, "I'll come home tonight here to my home in Washington and there'll be some mail there. 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," Reid continued. "Elderly Americans, more than anyone in America, rely on the United States Postal Service, but unless we act quickly, thousands of post offices ... will close. I've said this earlier today; I repeat it."
Maybe someone should publish Senator's Reid's home address so we can forward all our junk mail to him.
ReplyDeleteBut... what if he's actually right?
ReplyDelete(Which would be not so much an argument for the Post Office as a lament about human nature, I guess.)