OMG I can't wish my constiuents Merry Christmas!!1

[senseamp]

This is the same Joe Walsh who said:
"If the Postal Service can't compete in the marketplace, I am tired of propping it up."
But he sure doesn't want to pay market rate, or anything for that matter, to send Christmas cards.

 

[PingSpike]

I don't want to pay for those assholes' reelection campaign. They can at least fucking do that themselves while they're screwing everything else up.

 

[cybrsage]

no you are taking what I said out of context. retarded was used as an adjective for the mix mash of things that it is created from. I am not anti-religion.

Ah, my bad then. English can twist itself into knots at times! My apologies!

I do agree, Emperor Constantine was both the best and worst thing that ever happened to Christianity.

 

[JockoJohnson]

Personally, my bigger issue is that they're wasting taxpayer money on something that is simply campaigning on the public's dollar. The clerk at the DMV doesn't send me a Christmas card; why would any public employee feel the need to send me one? Oh yeah, because they're the one who needs to be reelected.

Sometimes, I feel that my intelligence is being insulted by some of those pandering mailers that my legislator sends me. Else, I feel disappointed that Joe Public is too stupid to see them for what they really are. Last summer, got one from my state legislator asking for my input on some issues. "Do you think I should vote yes or no on the following legislation." Every one of those issues - I wouldn't need a survey to know what 95% of the responses are going to be, based on how the questions were asked. ("Should the budget for the state prisons be increased which would allow the inmates to have access to 70" televisions instead of the existing 32" televisions?") And, it also made me question the ability of my legislator to make decisions - we voted this person into office specifically for this purpose - and they can't fulfill that primary obligation?

^This. It isn't so much Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukah. They shouldn't even be allowed to send out Holiday Greetings cards AT ALL on the taxpayer dime. If they want to do it, they need to personally foot the bill (and send whatever you want on it -- Merry Christmas, etc.)