A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

Is he nuts????

Posted: Apr 20, 2012

Harry Reid wants to "save the Post Office" because he says "seniors love getting junk mail-- it makes them feel connected to the rest of the world"---. WTH???? These are our government people???? It's no wonder the country is in the toilet if this is how they think!

;

Harry Reid is about the biggest - Trigger Happy

[ In Reply To ..]
dillhole. He is one of the many politicians that needs to get a pink slip. I don't know who I dislike more...him or Pelosi!!!

Really disgusting language - Why no one yelling moderator?

[ In Reply To ..]

Probably because my namecalling was - Trigger Happy

[ In Reply To ..]
aimed at a politician and not someone personally on this website. Nark to the moderator if it makes you feel better.

Nothing disgusting about post - See far more offensive language

[ In Reply To ..]
in Liberal posts slamming Repubs.

Can you provide a such as? Ones that specifically allude to - anatomical orifices,

[ In Reply To ..]
suggestive graphics depicting self erotic practices and sex toy images? Sorry. This type of rhetoric is decidedly within the realm of Nugentesque inspired conservative banter, and is indicative of the bankrupt nature of their intellectual debate arsenals.

How many times has the tea party - Trigger Happy

[ In Reply To ..]
been called teabaggers on this site? As we all know that is a suggestive graphic depicting an erotic practice. None of ya'll seemed to have a problem when that was going on.

Teabag is the modern method of making tea - Not correct?

[ In Reply To ..]
Seems Conservative are always bending statements and words to whatever way want to perceive it on any given day. I will not comment on the general state of their collective orifices, bend it how you will.

they are silmultaneously - see inside

[ In Reply To ..]
Self-proclaimed vast majority of the country yet victims. They whine and bully at the same time. Its just so darn SAD.

No that's not correct - but you already know that - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
We are not talking about cooking. I know there are a lot of people who get a rise out of insulting people they don't agree with political wise. Do you really want a history lesson about the offensive term and how the party started? The party is called the Tea Party, which originated from the Boston Tea Party. No where in the term Tea Party or the people who belong to the tea party ever add bagger. The offensive term became popular because of yours truly Chris Matthews. Then the ignorant ones kept repeating it cos they though it was "cute" to insult people they don't agree with. Then when its turned back on them they play innocent with "what, I thought that's how you make tea. Oh lordy lordy I'm the victim now because I can't insult people and get away with it". Since a lot of people hate the people in the Tea Party they jumped on the band to insult a group of people who they don't agree with political wise. The term, which you know full well what it means is offensive, which you know that full well too. The people who belong to the tea party do not like being called a filthy sexual term, just like many on the other side would not like being called salad tossers.

And it's not crying victim. Nobody in the tea party pulls the victim card like the democrats do. All they've ever asked is not to be called a filthy sexual term. But guess that is too hard and adult for those who get off insulting others can grasp.

So, no to answer your question teabagging is not a method of making tea. But then you already know that.

I find it amazing how well versed some people - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
are on filthy sexual terms including teabagger and "salad tossers". I had to look that one up too. Care to fill us in on the rest of your disgusting vocabulary?

FYI: Conservatives started using the term... but others ran and ran with it. - nm

[ In Reply To ..]
.

TP perpetuates it themselves with the silly costumes - Don't touch my Medicare!

[ In Reply To ..]
They recently had a rally near here and the same crazies showed up. It was basically a costume party. same nonsense as ever.

surprised to hear that - SM

[ In Reply To ..]
My understanding was that the "movement" had pretty much petered out. Most had moved on to latest craze, Zumba.

What else did he say about seniors dependence on the PO? - Mail order medicine

[ In Reply To ..]
Reid cited rural populations without internet service. Yep. Before my mom passed away she never gave a second thought to replacing the convenience of mail order catalogs with an expensive new-fangled contraption (computer/internet) she had no interest in learning how to use. She had relied on mail order shopping for all her Christmas gifts, vitamins, medicines, diabetic supplies, and book purchases, not to mention her entire wardrobe, which was delivered to her front door. She had been using those convenient and inexpensive shopping methods while she was still a working single parent raising 4 children. Mail order shopping became particulary significant to her after she could no longer drive. BTW, she lived smack dab in the middle of a large urban megopolis with a population of 5 million. Driving on the side streets and freeways to get to malls TERRIFIED her.

When I was her caretaker during her final years, I frequently offered to go the store to pick up these items, but she steadfastly refused to allow that, telling me she wanted to maintain a certain degree of "dignity" and a sense of independence by continuing habits she had had for decades. "Thanks, but no thanks, I can do it myself!" were her exact words.

Seniors are not the only ones who depend on those services that the post office delivers. She passed on those habits to her children, myself included. I have had my identity stolen TWICE as a result of online shopping, not to mention the time-consuming hassle of managing al the junk mail and spam that comes my way via e-mail. It takes 30 seconds to sort through a stack of mail and trash unwanted items, but much more time to unsubscribe to multiple chain sites that have been data mined off the point of online purchase. I utilize old-fashioned and more secure mail order catalog shopping as often as I possibly can. She also taught me how to be a "super-couper" as she called it long before TLCs Extreme Couponing arrived on the scene.

With that said, how about discussing the larger issue of ths obscene requirement the GOP imposed on the post office back in the 2006 lame duck session of requiring the post office to fund health care benefits 75 years in advance? Their efforts to privatize a time-honored traditional institution will result in the loss of hundreds of thousands of APWU and Mail Handlers union jobs. Too bad they haven't been able to ramrod this through before fall and won't be able to party hardy over the loss of 230,000 federal jobs that would artifically flatline jobs growth numbers in those critical months just prior to the election. Reminder: Not one dime of taxpayer money goes to the post office. Not one.

HR6407 - GOP1

[ In Reply To ..]

No, no, no. Nice try, but the GOP did NOT ram this through. Give a call to Davis and Waxman and ask them why they co-sponsored it. Here are some facts.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.R.6407:

Oh dear, sounds like a bi-partisal bill, doesn't it?

Sponsor: Rep Davis, Tom [VA-11] (introduced 12/7/2006) -Republican

Co-sponsors:

Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - 12/7/2006 - Democrat
Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] - 12/7/2006 - Repubican
Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-30] - 12/7/2006 - Democrat

Votes:

Dec 8, 2006: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by voice vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.
Dec 9, 2006: This bill passed in the Senate by Unanimous Consent. A record of each senator’s position was not kept.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

...and then there’s the rest of the story - Your first red flag would be

[ In Reply To ..]
A House voice vote and unanimous consent in the Senate within 24 hours? No vote, no roll call? In the House, it was Rep Ray LaHood (R-Ill) who determined there were "not sufficient numbers" of reps present to do an ayes-and-nays roll call after another representative requested one. Instead, LaHood declared the act as “passed.” Sounds like government by fiat. This was done despite prevailing vehement opposition from the APWU, among others, who fully understood the consequences of the prefunding requirements. The gimmick of bypassing roll call to avoid recorded voting on “sensitive” legislation, thus exonerating all pols from direct responsibility, is nothing new, but this time, it backfired.

Darrell Issa would have us believe current UPS woes are attributable to mismanagement and fiscal insolvency, but the truth is that the absurd annual $5.8 billion prefunding requirement for retirees health fund 75 years IN ADVANCE, a requirement no other federal agency is subjected to, is what has sucked the UPS profits dry and put them close to default. They have faced massive layoffs and facility closings in the aftermath of this debacle.

In an effort to clean up the blunder of 2006, HR 1351, the USPS Pension Obligation, Recalculation and Restoration Act was introduced. It is sponsored by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Ma) and has 225 co-sponsors. It proposes to restore up to $50 billion of pension fund OVERPAYMENTS to the Postal Service to cover the financial burden and protect the APWU’s collective bargaining rights.

Naturally, Issa and his ilk will not stand for that. He is sponsoring the Postal Reform Act (HR 2309), which has ONE solitary GOP co-sponsor. It is a blatent attempt at privatization of the Postal Service and disbanding the APWU. Sound familiar? Issa’s plan does not address the pension obligation, but instead would result in hundreds of thousands of jobs losses. It reeks of a partisan root-for-failure Hail Mary pass, engineered to fuel GOP widespread criticism of the current administration’s jobs record. The GOP continues to pursue its piece-by-piece efforts to dismantle the postal service to this day, with their eye on the big prize: Dissolution of a labor union of middle class workers to be replaced by unemployed folks desperate enough to accept lowered wages and reduced benefits. THAT is not a bipartisan goal by any stretch of the imagination. Issa's effort represents taking GOP obstructionism to the next level, where the GOP is found in hot pursuit of active and aggressive measures designed to exact direct and profound negative impact on the jobs numbers. The word sabotage comes to mind.

You cannot save the postal service by destroying the postal service.

Thanks for your very accurate description about the USPS. - nm

[ In Reply To ..]

more - GOP1

[ In Reply To ..]

Forgot to add to my post that the taxpayers DO support the USPS. Some more facts to toss over to you include the fact that they get much more than you think (not one single dime). They still get $100 MILLION each year.

"Although the USPS does receive an annual appropriation, the agency does not rely on
appropriations. Its appropriation is about $100 million per year, about 0.1% of the USPS’s $75 billion operating budget. Congress provides this appropriation to compensate the USPS for the revenue it forgoes in providing, at congressional direction, free mailing privileges to blind persons and overseas voters."

Thank you for the facts, nice to see some - posters actually know what they are - nm

[ In Reply To ..]
:)

Great post. I couldn't agree more. - sm

[ In Reply To ..]
First off, I'm sorry about the death of your mother. It doesn't matter what age a person is to lose a parent, but you sound like you were quite young when you lost her.

I had to smile when I read your post, and I wondered "How many mailmen did she ruin?" You described MY mother in your post. She would order from the big three: Sears, JC Penney and Montgomery ward. My dad would always come home and ask how many mailmen she wore out (meaning delivering packages -- this isn't X-rated, LOL!).

I was only 36 when I lost my dad, and I was an only child.

As far as seniors receiving mail-order medications, I have Medicare, and they discontinued the mail order system, which I really miss.

I'm glad you know how this happened. It's terribly unfair.

And speaking of identity theft, I believe that has happened to me within the last week. I check my bank account quite often on line, and I called the bank right away and was able to stop payment on it. Right now, they're at the point where they gave me a "provisional credit."

Sorry this is so long, but I was really touched and relieved to read it. Thank you again.

Similar Messages:

Aug 08, 2011
In a bit of a situation and I'm not sure what to do about it. I'm divorced with teens. The ex has very little contact with me or the kids and we are all fine with that. He was always absent even when he was physically there anyway. I have a boyfriend who is also divorced, no kids. His ex walked out on him the final time after having left him several times in the past. Not to mention she was constantly looking for her "next" husband on Match.com an ...

Aug 29, 2012
Just OMG...you really need to go to this link. ...

Jan 19, 2013
I read and think, cannot get any more crazy and yes it does. The football player who supposedly in love (and involved with) a person he has never even met? The football player said he kept up with the story because did not want people to think he was crazy. Well, guess what, I think right now you probably are in need of some very professional assistance. You have the money and you need to put it to some good use. To say you have a girlfriend (or boyfriend for that reason) and are in love with th ...

Aug 31, 2014
Okay, so this is nuts. I am looking for a non-MT work-at-home job. I went on a couple of websites, and many of the jobs require that I speak English AND Spanish. REQUIRED. Okay, so I have to learn their language, but they don't have to learn mine? When my grandpa came to this country back when the hard-working immigrants were making this country, nobody catered to his language of Italian. If he didn't learn to speak English, he couldn't survive here. More, unless he took a cou ...

Mar 23, 2011
This is what drives the Democrats in my state absolutely nuts. Tax credits for business will make their head spin. But, here's how it works in very, very simple terms, since I'm certainly not an economist (and I want to go to bed early tonight) :-) Here's how it works: -company gets tax break/incententive to invest in the area -company uses money to expand/build/hire employees -employees become tax payers - off unemployment, food stamps, or other gov't assistance ( ...

Jan 29, 2013
Can we assemble a multi-course menu of diseases and symptoms? (My vote would be preferably withOUT getting scatological, being as I'm pretty sure all of us here are older than 8, or 10, or whatever that age is.) I'll start off the menu with a nice word salad! ...

Jun 14, 2017
Another shooting at UPS office. ...

Sep 28, 2016
He is part of the problem of this country. He's a dyed in the wool Dem and strictly votes via the party. He absolutely spewed hate for the Republicans. He was on Washington Journal this morning and during the question and answer period, he said Benghazi wasn't Clinton's fault....it was Ambassador Steven's fault becuase he went there. IOW, he's blaming the Ambassador for being killed!!!!I'm so glad I don't live in TN. I'd be embarassed with that commen ...

Dec 07, 2013
Hope we don't see you here whining when someone steals your identity. ...

Jul 13, 2015
Pretty soon, the left is going to lead the charge to take all religious interpretations out of names of cities and people. Can you see just about every city in California changing it's name, i.e., San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Sacramento, etc. You get my drift. Also, every person with "chris" in their name will be forced to change it. No more Christopher, Christine, Christianne, etc. No more Jesus either. Won't that be a hoot. The ILLEGALS will love that one! ...

May 15, 2015
as they obviously feel that the poor cannot make any decisions for themselves and that they are higher and mightier than all, let them figure out how to take care of the children and feed the families. Scott Walker is shooting himself in the foot, thank goodness he is doing it early and often. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/15/wisconsin-gop-passes-bill-banning-poor-people-from-buying-shellfish-potatoes-and-ketchup/ ...

Jan 19, 2013
So many of you argued that Romney had no foreign policy experience or even knew anything about the rest of the world but he was right again! So, when do you think Obama will send troops into Africa? Wanna bet it will be soon? Because if he doesn't help France more than what he's doing now, you can bet your bottom dollar that another ally will bite the dust. Note the date on the below article: Mali Responds To Mitt Romney by Matt Taylor October 31st, 2012&nbs ...

Sep 12, 2014
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-bill-maher-go-to-bat-for-pres-obama-he-will-be-treated-in-history-very-kindly/ ...

Mar 30, 2010
Tanning Salon Tax Is Racist, Says Doc Thompson, Fill-In Host For Glenn Beck As the White House stumps nationwide in support of health care reform, they'll talk about how they've stopped insurance companies from dropping patients due to preexisting conditions and how they've "closed the doughnut hole" and how the youngs will be able to stay on their parents' insurance until they're old enough to go on unemploy ...

Oct 27, 2016
http://conservativetribune.com/jaws-drop-when-lib-cnn-host/?utm ...

Apr 29, 2010
By Andrew McLemoreWednesday, April 28th, 2010 -- 9:42 pm During an appearance on the radio show of Fox News’ Alan Colmes, prominent tea party leader Tom Tancredo made it clear he believes President Obama may not be an American citizen, Think Progress reported. The former GOP congressman responded to questions about a statement he gave to a group of tea partiers: “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?” Tancredo was referring to a speec ...