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From: Warren Oates on 6 Apr 2010 08:02 In article <timstreater-02FC6B.08103606042010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > Your banks are closed on Saturdays? How quaint. > > Mind you, I'm not surprised, the way I've been treated by one of them. I > wanted to transfer some dosh from it to the UK. Their suggestion was > that I fly over and conduct the transaction at their counter. > > Their second suggestion was that I present one of their cheques to my UK > bank. The UK bank is set up to process this and about six weeks later > the money arrived. Yeah, Canadian banking is still pretty quaint. Apparently, though, there are some branches in Toronto open on Saturday mornings. Our post offices have been shut on Saturdays for half a century now. The Yanks still have Saturday mail (useful if you live near the border). In the early 70s, when I wanted an account in London, I went to my Bank of Nova Scotia branch in Vancouver, and they set up an account for me at the branch in Berkeley Square, transferred all my money, and when I showed up it was all "yes Mr. Oates" and "here's your cheque book Mr. Oates" and so on, very nice. All my London friends accused me of having a "posh" bank. Of course the cheque book was about a yard long and had foils and counterfoils and I still have no idea what a "crossed cheque" is all about. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Sander Tekelenburg on 6 Apr 2010 10:26 In article <jollyroger-C1B4D4.21571704042010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <user-4172A5.14455104042010(a)newsreader.euronet.nl>, > Sander Tekelenburg <user(a)domain.invalid> wrote: [...] > > He's right, you know. We've had all sorts of 'medicare' for ages in > > Western Europe, and well, everyone knows that we're nothing but a bunch > > of backstabbing commies overhere. > > What saddens me is the typical American pretty much believes just that. > > I feel very lucky I'm not a typical American, by any stretch. I know. Some of my best friends are americans ;) -- Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
From: Davoud on 6 Apr 2010 16:41 Warren Oates > The Yanks still have Saturday mail (useful if you live near the border). Enjoy it while you can. The USPS is going to phase out Saturday deliveries and, I believe, close the post offices on Saturdays. This is known as a "cost-cutting measure." One wonders how deeply the U.S. will cut costs -- close the National Parks, close the schools, close the Interstates, stop the medical research... before the American people realize that too much spending is only a tiny part of the problem, and that the main issue is that the upper-middle-classes upward through the super-rich are not paying enough income tax. My wife and I are not among the super-rich (by a _very_ long shot!), but we have a sufficiently high income to be under-taxed, thanks in part to cuts in public services and thanks in part to the heavy taxes the poor (read: poorly educated) pay in the form of lottery-ticket purchases. For state legislators, wealthy lawyers most, to rob the poor in this way is nothing short of criminal, IMO. Americans still talk about this as a "rich country." Some even subscribe to the myth that it's the richest country in the world. To them I say that if you, personally, have, say $50 billion in assets but you are $11 trillion in debt, you can't go around telling people you are a billionaire; you are flat broke. It's as if the whole damned U.S. is living a wonderful fantasy. Fasten your seat belts, folks, because when it's over the landing is going to be a rough one. > All my London friends accused me of having > a "posh" bank. Of course the cheque book was about a yard long and had > foils and counterfoils and I still have no idea what a "crossed cheque" > is all about. I lived outside the U.S. for nearly 30 years and I also have no idea what a "crossed cheque" is -- in spite of having heard the term used countless times. Davoud "I'm working on my second million." "Really!? Wow!" "Yeah, I gave up on the first one." -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: Kurt Ullman on 6 Apr 2010 16:59 In article <060420101641318852%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote: > > One wonders how deeply the U.S. will cut costs -- close the National > Parks, close the schools, close the Interstates, stop the medical > research... before the American people realize that too much spending > is only a tiny part of the problem, and that the main issue is that the > upper-middle-classes upward through the super-rich are not paying > enough income tax. It is actually ALL of it. Look at the revenues vs spending. Rev has gone up less than the average \7% PER YEAR that spending has increased over the last 20 years or so. IRS figures also show that those in the top 5% are paying a higher share of the taxes than they were before the Bush Tax cuts (largely because a whole group of people at the bottom went off the roles entirely. > > My wife and I are not among the super-rich (by a _very_ long shot!), > but we have a sufficiently high income to be under-taxed, thanks in > part to cuts in public services and thanks in part to the heavy taxes > the poor (read: poorly educated) pay in the form of lottery-ticket > purchases. For state legislators, wealthy lawyers most, to rob the poor > in this way is nothing short of criminal, IMO. Then yo may feel free to pay more in taxes, etc. Otherwise you're saying that because you feel you should more so should I. I don't agree with you. -- I get off on '57 Chevys I get off on screamin' guitars --Eric Clapton
From: VAXman- on 6 Apr 2010 17:45
In article <060420101641318852%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net> writes: > >My wife and I are not among the super-rich (by a _very_ long shot!), >but we have a sufficiently high income to be under-taxed, thanks in >part to cuts in public services and thanks in part to the heavy taxes >the poor (read: poorly educated) pay in the form of lottery-ticket >purchases. For state legislators, wealthy lawyers most, to rob the poor >in this way is nothing short of criminal, IMO. So you just filled out the 1040EZ form so that Uncle Sam could keep more of your earnings... right? -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png Yeah. You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people. -- Billy Ray Valentine |