macira
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Charlie D The chicken Ranch would work but I meant the Mustang Ranch in Nevada.
The chicken Ranch was in La Grange Texas, north of IH10 between San Antonio and Houston.
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Charlie D.
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macira wrote:Charlie D The chicken Ranch would work but I meant the Mustang Ranch in Nevada.
The chicken Ranch was in La Grange Texas, north of IH10 between San Antonio and Houston.
That's what I thought. That makes us prostitute's to Wall Street.
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quark wrote:mytime wrote:If you only have enough cash in your pocket for hamburger you won't be tempted to buy that T-bone. If you are using a credit card you won't even think about it. I'll remember that next time I want to go on a hamburger-only diet. 
When I worked at Safeway Groceries around 1974, if you want cheap hamburger, go to the nicest store nearby in the most expensive neighborhood. If you want steak, go to the worst part of town you were willing to drive through.
They used pricing to try and maintain level sales for both products. This may no longer be true.
I knew one guy that checked the prices at all of the stores near his home every Friday, to determine which one he would go shopping at on Saturday.
As a programmer, we all had access to all of the prices. I wrote some of the programs for the first laser scanner that was installed by Safeway.
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Some places prefer plastic to cash. After all, they have signs up saying no bill large than 50 will be accepted.
49 dollar meal and they want two twenty's and a ten, but not a fifty.
Apparently their cashiers do not know how to tell a counterfeit note, but can spot a stolen credit card.
One of these days I will look for what appears to be a recent immigrant pay for my $4.25 meal with a:
two dollar bill
silver dollar
Susan B Anthony dollar coin
Kennedy half dollar
I want to see how long it takes them to figure out it is legal tender and then where does it go in the drawer.
Last week, someone at work was unable to use a dollar bill in the vending machine. He looked at it and thought it was counterfeit. He had never seen or heard of a Silver Certificate. Apparently the automated machines haven't been programmed for them either.
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Dick A
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JALLEN4 wrote:We have an entire invented system skimming two or three percent off the top of the economy and an entire populace defending and praising them. Now that is a good business!
John, both of us have mentioned this in threads at least a dozen times in various threads during the past year. Most just don't get it and will always believe in the tooth fairy.
Two things that will never change is trying to change a womans' mind and convincing a man if he gets something good for nothing, he really did get something good for nothing.
Oh, and the poor will always be poor - That's what keeps politicians in business!
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This is a very good movie on the subject. It was produced in 2007
I don't know how to make a "clickable" link... but here it is to copy and paste.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4HPIA_en_____203&q=the%20money%20Masters%20-%20How%20Bankers%20Gained%20Control%20of%20America&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#
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macira
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Dick a and Jallen4 In point of fact they are not skimming whatever percent, They are performing a service and being paid for it. When I travel if it were not for credit cards I would have to carry around 2 or 3 thousand $$. When you are 2500 miles from home few folks want to accept checks.
ATMs cost to use so I appreciate the service cc's provide.
They don't make me any poorer than I would be without them.
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In our current electronic age clearing a check or travelers check could be just as secure and easy as a credit card if the industry desired such. The reason we have the legal larcenist credit card industry is due to lobbyists getting their way with the banking industry and government.
Gee, come to think of it, that's the same bunch that got us into the current banking problem! 
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JJBIRISH
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macira wrote:Dick a and Jallen4 In point of fact they are not skimming whatever percent, They are performing a service and being paid for it. When I travel if it were not for credit cards I would have to carry around 2 or 3 thousand $$. When you are 2500 miles from home few folks want to accept checks.
ATMs cost to use so I appreciate the service cc's provide.
They don't make me any poorer than I would be without them.
what does you paying for the convenience of using a CC or ATM have to do with the bozos running the place cooking the books and skimming the profits...
it sure seems both are true... CC's are convenient, and the bozos have more than their fingers in the cookie jar...
if they collected your fees and earned their millions we wouldn't be bailing them out...
and they seem to be making the country poorer for their efforts...
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macira
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JBIRISH As far as the cc's go I haven't paid any fees directly. AS to the various Bozos, Ican't vouch for them. "THEY" whomever "They" may be may well have cooked the books.
What all the above seems to mean is "HUH?"
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