[ridesthemiles]

I only use a land line, and I have a FAX machine that uses it. I will not use a Cell Phone, and when we do have power outages, the land line is the only way I can call N V Energy. & report the outage.

A ‘walkabout phone’ system in your house is also dead in a power outage. It needs power to run the hub.

I refuse to do ANY online banking or purchasing. NOT in the past & NOT going to start now. I write only about 7 checks a month at the most. All at same time when Soc Sec comes in. I do NOT have a debit card. I do have an ATM card.

How is getting rid of cash going to help YOUR teenager who makes money in the summer mowing lawns or babysitting? You got a 15 y/o son who mows lawns & gets paid with CASH. Learning how to handle that CASH is one of the basic building blocks of a successful life. That kid is TOO YOUNG to have his own checking account, so the homeowner isn’t going to be able to pay him ‘electronically’ anyway.

Someone hasn’t thought this thru.

It isn’t just a ‘CASHLESS SOCIETY’ they are after-—It is knowing exactly where you are at all times. Every electronic purchase you make is traceable.

[arthurus]

I use a credit card almost exclusively and can do it without going overboard because I can check it and zero it out on line which I do several times a month. I had to have the card to buy airfare. Other than that I am in full accord with your take on it all. I do have a walkabout phone but it is on extension on my solid connected phone. I have a $6 a month internet phone because it is a hell of a lot cheaper than having long distance on the land line.

The whole concept of a cashless society sounds so convenient to most but it gives other people, especially the government, total immediate surveillance of all one's uses of money and thus total control of YOU and ME and everyone else.