[Procyon]

You're lucky. The economic stimulus money that came to my state went to the spanish owned electric company and they used the money to install smart meters at every home and laid off all of their meter readers.

Using your logic: if all the ATMs were replaced with bank branches open 24 hours and staffed with tellers, we'd all be better off.

[tsowellfan]

if all the ATMs were replaced with bank branches open 24 hours and staffed with tellers, we'd all be better off.

That may be true but please don't sell me the idea with the promise that it's going to create jobs when in reality the unemployment rate increases from 7.2% to 9.2% after the stimulus money has been passed out.

[Onelifetogive]

Using your logic: if all the ATMs were replaced with bank branches open 24 hours and staffed with tellers, we'd all be better off.

ATMs are a more efficient way to perform banking functions, but providing government money and oversight to implement those ATMs would wreck any potential benefits.