Congress + ATMS = ?
In case you needed another reminder that congress doesn’t represent you, here’s the Washington Post on political ATM usage:
Sen. Ben Nelson (D), for example, told the Omaha World-Herald this week that he has never once used an ATM, relying on bank tellers instead. His Nebraska colleague, Sen. Mike Johanns (R), has used his ATM card fewer than five times. And Sen. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, told the newspaper that he has a bank card but doesn’t use it for cash.
“I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees are. It’s true, I don’t know how to use one,” Nelson, 69, said.
I’m very glad the folks making the decisions are also part of the 7 percent of Americans who don’t use ATMs. Great.
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Kinda with Bill’s comment on the previous post. I think you’re stretching the meaning of “represent” here quite a bit. Do we send people to Congress to act as statistically accurate sampling of the US population, or because we want them to advance our interests on our behalf? I think it’s the latter, and I don’t think ATM usage is at all significant. I’m sure these guys do lots of stuff that old or rich people do, and very little of it matters.