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Is this guy totally insane? Has he gone off the deep end? wat a nut.

Harry Reid: ‘Seniors Love to Get Junk Mail…Only Way of Communicating or Feeling Like They‘re a Part of the Real World’ | Postal Service | USPS | Video | TheBlaze.com

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday claimed senior citizens “love” junk mail and cited them as a reason to pass a United States Postal Service reform bill.
“Elderly Americans rely on the United States Postal Service,” Reid said in a Senate floor speech. “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 that are sending that mail, it’s very important.”
 
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Said the birther... :roll:

what an insane response.

I happen to fit into the "senior" category. Reid stating “And when talking about seniors, seniors love to get junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
I wonder who in the heck he been polling. I hate junk mail. It is a waste of paper, a waste of the post office resources. IMO, Reid must have had a senior momement to come up with that line. It is almost as good as Pelosi's, "we have to pass the bill first to see what is in it" (paraphrased).

If you like junk mail, maybe I can find a way to forward you all my junk mail.
 
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Harry Reid, who is unfortunately the Representative of my state is a moron of prodigious proportions. This SOS works hand in hand with the Casinos to insure we have no other jobs and they can maintain their low wages and high abuse factor.

We had a chance to get rid of him but the glorious Tea Party fronted a candidate so wacky and ridiculous (Sharon Angle) that he was handily re-elected. Thanks a lot Tea Party.

And yes, I'm a senior and I wish I never saw another piece of junk mail in my life but with elections looming, I'm sure my wish will ot come true.
 
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what an insane response.

I happen to fit into the "senior" category. Reid stating “And when talking about seniors, seniors love to get junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
I wonder who in the heck he been polling. I hate junk mail. It is a waste of paper, a waste of the post office resources. IMO, Reid must have had a senior momement to come up with that line. It is almost as good as Pelosi's, "we have to pass the bill first to see what is in it" (paraphrased).

If you like junk mail, maybe I can find a way to forward you all my junk mail.

Hey don't get me wrong.

I think Harry Reid is an idiot too.

It's just when my irony meter gets pegged, it's pretty hard to hold it back.
 
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Another mistake made into something much bigger than it should actually be. Are you people this unforgiving and unwilling to give people the benefit of the doubt in real life, or just when you are talking about people from the other side of the partisan aisle when you are anonymous on the internet?

If you take out the word "junk," his comments make complete sense.

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 that are sending that mail, it’s very important.

And when talking about seniors, seniors love to get mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.

Unless we act quickly, thousands of post offices – as I indicated, there are more than 30,000 in America, many of them rural – will close. I’ve said this earlier today, I repeat it: These rural post offices [are] the only way that people have who are in those small communities to communicate with the outside world. Maybe some medicine they’re getting, maybe keep in touch with their family. It’s their way of keeping in touch with the world."
I think it's about 99% likely this is the speech he intended to say.

It's pretty sad when people take tiny little mistakes and use it to affirm their own fantasy that the other side consists of complete idiots who shouldn't be given the time of day. Demonstrates what is so messed up with our political system.
 
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Question Reid should answer.
Why does Congress basically control what the USPS can charge for mail? If Congress wants the USPS to continue at six day a week delivery, avoid layoffs, closures, then let them decide how to generate revenue and what rates they need to stop loosing money.
 
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Question Reid should answer.
Why does Congress basically control what the USPS can charge for mail? If Congress wants the USPS to continue at six day a week delivery, avoid layoffs, closures, then let them decide how to generate revenue and what rates they need to stop loosing money.

Like all government entities, they don't have to or need a profit and they're making damn sure the Post Office never makes one.
 
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Said the birther... :roll:

Reid has been an unabashed asshole, and needs to frogmarched the hell out of the Senate. He's one of the biggest son of a bitches in the US Govt. I hate the bastard, and he dishonors our troops.
 
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Reid has been an unabashed asshole, and needs to frogmarched the hell out of the Senate. He's one of the biggest son of a bitches in the US Govt. I hate the bastard, and he dishonors our troops.

You ah... You wanna wipe the foam from your mouth?
 
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You ah... You wanna wipe the foam from your mouth?

Nah, I'm feeling it this evening. :lol:
 
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what an insane response.

I happen to fit into the "senior" category. Reid stating “And when talking about seniors, seniors love to get junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
I wonder who in the heck he been polling. I hate junk mail. It is a waste of paper, a waste of the post office resources. IMO, Reid must have had a senior momement to come up with that line. It is almost as good as Pelosi's, "we have to pass the bill first to see what is in it" (paraphrased).

If you like junk mail, maybe I can find a way to forward you all my junk mail.

Great post my friend..:applaud I personally believe Reid is either insane or suffering from dementia.......Another great leader of the left.........
 
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..... People.... actually receive mail still? From who?
 
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..... People.... actually receive mail still? From who?

Some of us working folk get bills in the mail.
 
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Some of us working folk get bills in the mail.

I get my bills sent to my computer. It's 100% paper free and saves forests. Nifty little invention called "e-mail". Most major companies in the US are more than willing to e-mail you the bill.
 
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I get my bills sent to my computer. It's 100% paper free and saves forests. Nifty little invention called "e-mail". Most major companies in the US are more than willing to e-mail you the bill.

So your saying you never receive junk or unwanted mail?
 
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apparently the Post Office in his neck of the woods isn't doing their jobs :) no junk mail.


this isn't quite as good as the Cowboy Poetry Festival. But yeah, classic Reid.
 
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So your saying you never receive junk or unwanted mail?

... Are you kidding me? Read what I said - Also, you don't pay for e-bills. They're free. Seriously welcome to the 21st century, did you know you can pay your phone bill from your iPhone? Wait... do you even know what an iPhone is?
 
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and he dishonors our troops.

Ahh, yes the patriotism card as so often played by right wing loons. The mythical support the troops canard. Yawn.
 
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Ahh, yes the patriotism card as so often played by right wing loons. The mythical support the troops canard. Yawn.

I was in Iraq when I heard Senator Reid had said the war was lost. I recall being pretty pissed off at the time. Not least because we found that s*** on enemy propaganda, designed to convince the populace that we were going to abandon them and anyone who worked with us would be killed afterwards.
 
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I get my bills sent to my computer. It's 100% paper free and saves forests. Nifty little invention called "e-mail". Most major companies in the US are more than willing to e-mail you the bill.

I know, just giving you ****. ;)
 
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Ahh, yes the patriotism card as so often played by right wing loons. The mythical support the troops canard. Yawn.

So you don't support the troops, got it,
 
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I can't believe some of our left wing friends can defend Reid on this...........This should be a non partisan issue with all of us senior citizens on the same side.............His words are defenseless.
 
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So you don't support the troops, got it,

Sad to say there are a lot of people in DP who don't support the troops.....
 
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Sad to say there are a lot of people in DP who don't support the troops.....

Well I agree in the case of some of the worst hacks.
 
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