Fox News - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is making a top-to-bottom case for prompt passage of a Postal Service reform bill that if defeated, he says, would deny seniors their beloved junk mail.
“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.”
Look, I don't want to say Harry Reid is misinformed, I'm sure he's got plenty of great college interns working for him, but I can tell you right now what my grandfather's going to say if I call to ask him his feelings on junk mail: "It's all JUNK!" Maybe, he's replace junk with rubbish, but it would definitely be capitalized like, RUBBISH.
I sincerely hope there's no one out there who feels connected to the world because they got a credit card offer, one of those American Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes things where you're notified that "YOU'VE ALREADY WON $10K!" (someone tell Ed McMahon I'm still waiting on my gigantic check), and coupons for 50% off fancy feast cat food, that's truly depressing. At a bare minimum there's at least the TV to watch. It's not like the old days when people got old they either sat around in silence all day or got shipped off on an iceberg or anything, there's TV Land re-runs, Dr. Oz (old people seem to love him and his constant pushing of fish oils), and the Hallmark channel still shows Murder She Wrote (a fantastic show, IMO).
