Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 11:12 am

In article <0001HW.BF59306F00511954F0407550@news.verizon.net>, 
randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net says...
> MSCHAEF.COM wrote

> > PS: I thought debit cards were an odd choice of aid too.
>  
> They were not a choice of aid.  They were the first steps in the 
> next election campaign. 

Exactly how do you work that out?

Actually I reckon they were a fairly sensible idea - the obvious 
alternative of giving displaced persons a wad of cash would probably 
lead directly to a good deal of crime.

There may have also been a feeling that people who didn't need the 
money would put them by for a while.  Sure, I suppose looking at their 
card might give a few people a warm feeling about the government, but 
it was hardly the motive for distributing them.

News reports seem to indicate that the cards are now being terminated 
in favour of bank deposits.  Again, not cash.  

Traditionally - or at least in European left-wing bureaucratic 
tradition - they would have been given ration cards.  Is that what you 
favour?  Or would that have been an election ploy too?

- Gerry Quinn

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