November 13, 2004
Receipts
I gave Lori our CF card reader for her trip to Walla Walla. My 1GB CF card is oversized for a PCMCIA reader, so I went to Best Buy to get a new CF Card Reader and a ream of paper for the printer. For that I paid around $25 in cash, and I got back this:
(five dollar bill presented to show scale, and to demonstrate that the falling value of the dollar is making our currently so worthless that only five dollar bills are now meaningful)
This is a 21" monster receipt. Included is a unique bar code for the transaction, a list of all of the purchases, a list of qualifying rebates (there were none), legal information about the receipt, and then about 8" where they told me to take an online survey about my experience.
So here I spent $25 on a trivial purchase and I get a two foot long receipt. But when people vote for president of the United States, the most powerful individual position in the world, they don't get a receipt. Please explain that to me. We spend thousands of dollars on new machinery, and they don't even include a printer to get a receipt.
It's insane. It's ridiculous. It's fraudulent.
Is there any justification for this at all? Or is it just yet another Republican screw job on the voting population?
Posted by jherr at November 13, 2004 02:52 PMThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)