Your daily Letter to the Columnist — Nov. 15, 2012
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She’s got an idea for fighting back against political junk mail
Mr. Casey:
I love your column in today’s paper regarding laws we’d like to see in place. I absolutely agree with those that want something done about the political ads.
Over the past several months (up to Election day), our mailbox was stuffed on a daily basis with campaign ads. These ads ranged from one page ads to booklets. I can’t help but wonder how much money was spent (and how much were taxpayers’ dollars) on this trash.
While I certainly don’t want to jeopardize our mail carrier’s jobs, it astounds me that so much money was wasted on these campaign ads. I seriously doubt that very many people actually read these ads.
I’ve decided in 2016, I’m going to save every campaign ad that is placed in my mailbox or on my doorknob. The day before Election Day, the local Republican and Democrat offices will receive a gift from me of all the ads for their party that I received.
Then they can decide how to get rid of them!
Susan Compton
CHRISTIANSBURG
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Note from Dan: This idea is destined to wind up in a future how-you-can-fight-back-at-the-turds column at the beginning of the next election season. Imagine if every resident of a locality did this. What an effective deterrent to political junk mail it could be!
November 15, 2012 - 1:20 PM
Regarding Papa Johns owner Schnatter claiming “Obamacare” will force him to raise prices, I can see his dilemma. As the owner of a 40,000 sq. ft. house with a 22 car garage and golf holes on his property, the man has to prioritize. Does he plow some of those earnings back into health care coverage for employees or does he reseed his putting greens, purchase new cars to fill the garage, upgrade the HVAC to include heated floors in his 6,000 sq. ft. “carriage house”, add a kids pool and hot tub next to his swimming pool, restock his ponds? We obviously don’t appreciate the difficulties he faces. Just take a look at his shack and how run down it has become. Upgrades are so obviously sorely needed:
http://mansionsandmore.wordpress.com/tag/john-schnatter/
Great idea Susan,…..I, like you, and I bet most people, as soon as I see what it is it goes immediately to the re-cycle bin….It is hard to imagine the millions spent and the only profitting is the post office, I assume.
@Scott, class envy doesn’t look good on you.
Yes the Papa John’s guy is obviously very classy.
Papa Johns has a $250 million class-action lawsuit pending against them. And they give away 2 million pizzas per year.
And then their dipstick CEO goes SO bonkers with worry over “OBAMACARE” — BWA,HAHAHA! THE SCARIEST THING EVER! — that he feels like he has to lie about how much it’s gonna cost his company.
He needs to get his priorities straight.
By the way, I don’t buy their pizza, but I don’t have huge problems with it. It’s better than Dominos and Pizza Hut (I realize, that’s not saying much).