On the June 14 edition of NBC's "Today," President Barack Obama ascribed part of the blame for the high unemployment rate to ATMs, yet most media outlets continue to ignore the gaffe.
"There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers," lectured Obama in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry. "You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate."
I don't agree with our president very often but here i think hes right. By making ATMs it eliminates bank teller jobs, by making kiosk instead of checkout tellers it eliminates those jobs as well. By making automated self check outs at grocery stores/walmart etc, it eliminates cashier jobs for the people. Then those people go on federal assistance until they can find a job which comes out of tax payers pockets.they tried putting those self check outs in our walmarts in Seminole and everyone in town refused to use them and went threw the check out line where we had a cashiers. Guess what? They removed them and made more lanes for real people, creating more jobs in our town. :)
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