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2005-11-14 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2005-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The EU better think that 50 million euro release again. Multiply that by many more if the jihadi enclaves in other countries go bananas and the EU treasury will be broke from appeasement in a New York Minute.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-14 00:21|| 2005-11-14 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 50 million euros wisely expended in providing weapons to law abiding citizens could do lots to improve the situation.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-11-14 10:27|| 2005-11-14 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Spot on, JFM.

Posted by mac 2005-11-14 10:28|| 2005-11-14 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 11/15 tomorrow? Welfare checks coming out? Don't think Pierre Ze Mailman will be too hot delivering them if he's gonna get his head kicked in.

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-14 10:33|| 2005-11-14 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Direct deposit confirmed on Minitel, the french internet.

Posted by Ebbanter Throth9218 2005-11-14 10:34|| 2005-11-14 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Welfare checks coming out? Don't think Pierre Ze Mailman will be too hot delivering them if he's gonna get his head kicked in.

Unfortunately in France it doesn't work that way: you provide your bank account number to the welfare organism and then every month the money is transferred automatically to your account. Pierre ze Mailman is not involved.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-11-14 11:55|| 2005-11-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, I think they do it the same way here in the People's Republic. Don't want to "stigmatize" them by making them walk down to the mailbox or stand in line or something grueling like that.

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-14 12:16|| 2005-11-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, I think they do it the same way here in the People's Republic. Don't want to "stigmatize" them by making them walk down to the mailbox or stand in line or something grueling like that.

It is more about the fact that the filling and processing of checks (even before postal costs) is hideously expensive: about 15 cents versus near zero when handling is purely electronic. 15 cents multiplied by a billion makes for some real money.

BTW it works also on the reverse: income taxes and some bills can (not must, can) be paid like this.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-11-14 16:17|| 2005-11-14 16:17|| Front Page Top

#9 It's also because the third of the month used to be hell at banks. Once worked as a teller the day after Labor Day when it was the third. Made me want to scream like Howard Dean. Welfare checks and Social Seucurty checks came out at the same time and the banks were not good places to be. I especially liked it when after they cashed their social security check, they would ask to have the interest posted to their savings pass book. And then decide to deposit $10.00 to savings. And right behind them would be some junkie hopping around, really needing to score as he had run out of cash a week before. Probably a lot of muggings outside the banks, not to mention stolen checks with forged endorsements and false claims of forged endorsements made it a lot cheaper to go to direct deposit.

Posted by Hupereter Slavith3888 2005-11-14 16:33|| 2005-11-14 16:33|| Front Page Top

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