Jim;

I got a bank teller to open her eyes wide one day after she suggested, “You can use the ATM to make your deposit”! I told her, “If I do, you will not have a job”!

On occasion the ATM system in the entire San Francisco Bay Area has ”gone down”. I have yet to see all banks “go down”, except for holidays and Sundays!

Once the banks got enough people to become dependant upon ATM machines they began changing for this and that. Anything to make a buck. I have with drawl symptoms from ATM machines. :)


Tom


>Nick,
>
>When ATMs first hit the streets it was obvious that they would one day replace tellers at banks. And they were open 24hrs per day, 7 days per week.
>I wrote to the Finance Minister of the day and suggested that they charge the banks the UI *premiums* (at the time - Unemployment Insurance) of 5 average teller employees per month for EACH ATM installed.
>The banks were still saving the salaries/benefits of actual tellers and the proceeds would help to fund social services for the actually displaced tellers.
>
>I never heard anything, and it never happened.
>
>
>
>>Tom
>>
>>I've often thought over here that there should be an additional tax on corporations that save money by reducing their work force because the social security cost hits all of us.
>>When that company "streamlines its operation" and sack 100's I pay. So they reduce their costs but mine go up.
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>>>>Don't just throw out the stats, throw out the cities and their occupants too. In this case throwing the baby out with the bath water may not be a bad thing...
>>>>>
>>>>>:o)
>>>>
>>>>You are a true visionary! Tracy for Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Now there is another Department I would abolish if I were King for a day. Right along with the money pits of Agriculture, Education, Energy, and Commerce.
>>>
>>>Mark;
>>>
>>>A guy was on the news last night and made an interesting statement. He said that welfare for the needy cost $50 billion a year. Another form of welfare is for corporations and costs $170 billion a year. The former is not acceptable to the majority of people while the majority do not know or care about corporate welfare from the federal government.
>>>
>>>The last time I looked the cost to administer welfare was over 50% of the budgeted amount. Without welfare for people there would be more unemployment.
>>>
>>>Tom