Save the Economy: Ban ATMs!

President Obama said, "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. You see it when you go to the bank and use an ATM -- you don't go to a bank teller." MRCTV sent their crew to the streets of Alexandria, Virginia where they asked people to sign a petition to ban ATMs and save jobs.

June 18, 2011 at 12:52 am - MRC
Dateline: Washington DC
tpalya   June 18th, 2011 - 1:01 am

Save America: Ban Liberalism!

CanAirFarce   June 18th, 2011 - 1:16 am

Improvement in technology supposed to help to improve people's quality of life. What went wrong?

onlyparadise   June 18th, 2011 - 1:22 am

Ban Sickness .. save medicare..LOL

quivive   June 18th, 2011 - 1:27 am

Blame the machines! It is astonishing how progressives are really regressive. The left always knocks the right for wanting to go back to the 1950's, yet the little Marxist voice in them always calls out against technological progress.

Bye the way, good job guys. I love the person who said their bad for the enviroment.

CanAirFarce   June 18th, 2011 - 1:27 am

You are absolutely right. Outlaw sickness !! Make it a criminal act if you are sick. Then send the sick people to jail.

henrythin   June 18th, 2011 - 1:29 am

You got to love that older black lady who asks, "Do you realize how stupid that sounds?" At least some Americans got some sense.

lizardAZ   June 18th, 2011 - 1:58 am

So he wants to ban certain technology….is this because machines have replaced expensive union workers. Like the auto industry.

I have an idea obummer secure the border and kick out the illegals, then there will be jobs for Americans.

CanAirFarce   June 18th, 2011 - 2:06 am

Send all Robots to secure your border. Robots do not need to eat. Robots to so not need to sleep. Robots do not need any smoke break. Robots are effective killing machines 24 hours a day. Then your border will be safe.

Beeotch700   June 18th, 2011 - 2:42 am

Why don't we send you to the border and then not feed you. I'd feel safer.

lizardAZ   June 18th, 2011 - 3:20 am

I like the convenience of the ATM, I don't miss those long lines we use to have to stand in, specially on a Friday.

Dave_Tn   June 18th, 2011 - 3:21 am

Obama is a racist!!!! What is an OTM in gubmint speak? huh huh? Other Than Mexican. So Obama wants to do away with ATMs……. ALL THOSE MEXICANS..Obama is a racist!!!!! BAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

CanAirFarce   June 18th, 2011 - 3:27 am

Are you suggesting you want to outsource your border security to an Private Canadian Company?

frankly88   June 18th, 2011 - 3:31 am

What a colossal, communist idiot. No wonder he uses a teleprompter to talk to his kids.

denniscar   June 18th, 2011 - 3:48 am

The neix time I see a ATM Iam going to rap a rope around it and drag it down the road with my pick up.F*^kers

ed357   June 18th, 2011 - 3:56 am

Classic line……

"Do you know how stupid that sounds?"

Ask the 0BAMA…….

ZER0 must have thought his idea to ban ATMs was all cerebral and $hit.

CanAirFarce   June 18th, 2011 - 4:03 am

I am sure what the situation is like in USA, but in Canada, at my bank, I can only use my banks ATM machine for 5 transactions a week, every transaction over the limit, my bank will charge me $2.00. And if I use other banks ATM machine to take out money, charges will be from $1.00 to $3.50 depending which bank's ATM I am using.

I do miss my bank teller, we used to have some good chat while she was servicing me. Miss the good old day.

BicentennialMan   June 18th, 2011 - 4:13 am

I love how a woman signing the petition says that ATM's are not 'eco-friendly'. Too funny.

Nightfly24   June 18th, 2011 - 4:16 am

Like stray cats, feeding the stray trolls only makes them keep coming back. Like stray cats, they're all a little different. Some are just smart arses, some can only muster enough intelligence to call others vile names, and some don't even realize how racist they are. There is one that's hanging around that blames everything on Israel. If they cannot engage in intelligent discussion, just brush them off. Kind of like shooing away the stray cats with a broom.

badodor   June 18th, 2011 - 4:40 am

Ban Obama and automatically create jobs.

tpalya   June 18th, 2011 - 4:44 am

So don't use the phucking things. Idiot Marxist!

bashley   June 18th, 2011 - 4:52 am

Following Obama's idiotic philosophy and since we own GM and Chrysler then let's remove all the automated robotic equipment from their production lines.

mustafamonde   June 18th, 2011 - 4:58 am

I guess this is why Obama gave up using his auto signer to do his work for him. He'll still lose his job though, in 2012.

GoldwatersChild   June 18th, 2011 - 5:07 am

All those numbskulls think they made a difference and the best part, they didn't even have to use a brain cell.

WildCrazyGuy   June 18th, 2011 - 5:08 am

OBAMAs WAR CRIMES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQyzw3c6O0

Irondog   June 18th, 2011 - 5:29 am

Liberals never take responsibility for their actions…it's always someone else's fault.

claspur   June 18th, 2011 - 5:37 am

Dumb.
Read this instead.
http://www.captaincanadacrusades.ca/articles/none...

DDLGrays   June 18th, 2011 - 5:39 am

Like blaming the Carter recession on a lack of barrel coopers.

lineitemveto   June 18th, 2011 - 5:42 am

One could argue the proliferation of these types of technologies makes people lazier.

MaskedPhrogg   June 18th, 2011 - 5:43 am

Did something go wrong?
Let's see….
By automating certain tasks in productive or trade environments fewer people can put out substantially more or less costly work to achieve the same or greater benefit.
I give up, I fail to see where anything went wrong. Everyone benefits from the efficiency that automation brings to the table.
Unless of course you are the employee whose only talents can and have been automated. Damn! that's worse than being the guy with the job a monkey could do.

MaskedPhrogg   June 18th, 2011 - 5:45 am

My favorite is the older lady in the fine hat who asks "you do know how stupid that sounds …"

MaskedPhrogg   June 18th, 2011 - 5:48 am

All for it if the company in question has a track record at securing borders. Our own domestic security force has shown itself to be inadequate or unwilling to accomplish it's law bound duty to secure our borders from intruders.

LizardLips   June 18th, 2011 - 5:50 am

"Eco-friendly", just a buzz phrase that, if taken to it's extreme, would mean negative human growth((think retro-active birth control)and return of mother earth or 'gaia' to her near original and pristine state. Ideal for a small select group of elites. Now that's central planning.

water_buffalo   June 18th, 2011 - 5:53 am

Ban unions and their thugs

gfchicago   June 18th, 2011 - 6:04 am

Some of the people that signed the petition thought it was a grand idea that it would get rid of the ATM fees. Are they really that stupid as to think that once that is eliminated that the banks would't come up with other fees?

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 6:09 am

The Obama epiphany, regression creates jobs!

Makes sense he wants everyone to take a rickshaw to work, stop children from selling lemonade to increase adult opportunity, move into tent cities that are easily heated or cooled after a climate change and run all your electric needs from a windmill you can peddle when it's calm also improving your health and saving government money it can then use to protect you from ideas that there was a better was but only your parents knew for sure before they moved to a reeducation camp twentyfive years ago..

lizardAZ   June 18th, 2011 - 6:12 am

Morning Claspur, well the article shows me I was on the right track when I said it felt like they where putting us on the plantation.

Did you see where obummers people are going to make a deal with the taliban? On Fox website.

Also did you see Japan is using poop to make meat, I kid you not. I thought it was bad when China was selling their people plastic rice, but Japan wins hands down on this one. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanes...

Obamaisatraitor   June 18th, 2011 - 6:13 am

Remember this: People who think ATMs are the problem are same Democrats and RINOS who made incandescent bulbs illegal effective January, 2012. What about those American jobs eliminated by Congress and Obama? Beneficiary: GE/Immelt monopoly on $50 light bulbs made in China where millions of jobs resulted, exempt from U.S. taxes for GE! Thanks liberals. Demand Congress/Obama reverse this bill now.

duh_swami   June 18th, 2011 - 6:37 am

Parking meters are the devils invention…Way worse than an ATM…If you get a ticket for violation, you have to pay..And you may have to take time off from work to go and do it, sometimes your car is towed away, now there's a real money saver…In some area's and at night, they are virtually worthless, they just sit there doing nothing…If they make no money, they were a useless expenditure to begin with…and look at all the human suffering caused by parking meters, headaches, anxiety, frustration, anger…Parking meters are taking their toll on humanity both financially and mentally, and should be banned…

ATO86VTL   June 18th, 2011 - 6:38 am

Moron and Chief.

mustafamonde   June 18th, 2011 - 6:42 am

Well that and a lack of whip makers for buggy owners.

jfpack   June 18th, 2011 - 6:45 am

I burst out laughing when she said that. "This is the A tea M party…"

Boxhawker   June 18th, 2011 - 6:49 am

Probably the 40 extra years of life we have gained since 1900, thanks to technology.

peteee363   June 18th, 2011 - 6:57 am

yeah, he and the horse he came in on, or was that not a horse, but pelosi?

peteee363   June 18th, 2011 - 6:57 am

just like they always seem to run out of other peoples money.

peteee363   June 18th, 2011 - 7:00 am

obama does want to bring back gandy dancers too. they were the teams of men using long poles to move railroad tracks around.

RightUnite   June 18th, 2011 - 7:07 am

THE smartest gal on the video.

OneExtreme   June 18th, 2011 - 7:07 am

This is the kind of silly nonsense that makes the Right look stupid. There are too many VALID criticisms of the Left to waste bandwidth by put this stupid Comedy Central type skit on this site. Obama was not proposing banning ATM's, he was making a valid point that our economy continues to do more with less workers.

When you attack your opponent on his strengths rather than his weaknesses, you are defeating yourself.

Lawrence_In_NY   June 18th, 2011 - 7:09 am

I think the problem isn't the ATM machines, I think the problem is the banks. ATM machines in NYS were allowed because Banks didn't want to build more branches. In other words, the banks saved billions. It is a sure sign of their management incompetence that they have to charge a fee at ATM's.

Not that shouldn't bee free to charge a fee. They should. Wonder why there is so little competition in ATM fees?

alwaysright5   June 18th, 2011 - 7:11 am

May be he can blame bull dozers and construction equipment, many workers with picks and shovels could be doing the same work.

duh_swami   June 18th, 2011 - 7:11 am

When you attack your opponent on his strengths rather than his weaknesses, you are defeating yourself.

Not if you do it with humor and make them a laughing stock…

amanuensis   June 18th, 2011 - 7:13 am

Let's not forget his Andy Warhol idea of checking tire pressure to save the environment.
How about bringing back Sal on the Erie Canal? The covered wagon, the pony express and the washboard?

Obama drives a golf cart instead of walking like a normal human. It's amazing that he can drive at all.

We are dealing with someone who is playing with half a tarot deck.

Kit   June 18th, 2011 - 7:26 am

This has got to be the stupidest crusade that I've ever heard of. What about all of the "robots" that do the work on assembly lines etc? Do they actually believe that getting rid of ATMs is going to help the economy and create jobs? Tee totally ridiculous.

WorldclaZZ   June 18th, 2011 - 7:28 am

There are no babe ATMs.

bbierman   June 18th, 2011 - 7:33 am

We need to ban industrialized farms and dairies and return to eco-friendly hunter gatherer societies….like those blue guys in Avatar. That way everyone would have a job; some hunting, others skinning and cleaning, others carrying tent habitations to seasonal homes, others doing laundry. We can live in harmony with nature.

father_moray   June 18th, 2011 - 7:38 am

Ban Obama…criminal consequences for criminal sabotage…may he end his days shooting the floor in Gitmo….Hand Job-in-Chief.

twistin   June 18th, 2011 - 7:44 am

turn in your computer, immediately!

twistin   June 18th, 2011 - 7:45 am

now the lefties will start throwing atm's into boston harbor…..you betcha!

Knowbetter   June 18th, 2011 - 7:49 am

What "O" thinks ATM's load their money or print it inside the machine someone loads it. The bank where I worked a teller did it now armored cars people do it in some places. Some one does maintenance they do break plus load paper for receipts . The list goes on .

doogle   June 18th, 2011 - 7:53 am

Yo C-A-F

Try spreading your lies and hate using two soup cans tied together with a string…or, maybe smoke signals…

jbh50   June 18th, 2011 - 7:55 am

Ban the teleprompter…

Wesley69   June 18th, 2011 - 8:04 am

Sounds like our energy program – make sure your tires are inflated. This is a good idea, but it is not the solution needed.

JoeKidd   June 18th, 2011 - 8:16 am

OF COURSE Obama would say something like that…
Obama’s whole agenda is rooted in ARCHAIC backwards-thinking STATIST ideas promoting ENSLAVEMENT!

Now here’s a brilliant quote from a great article by Ross McKitrick:
“Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.” http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Earth+Hour...

Any questions?!?

Just remember: We can’t fix stupid but we can surely vote it out. “¡Adiós, Obama!”

democratsarefools   June 18th, 2011 - 8:32 am

First [second & third it was George Bush and now its the ATM's. How does this man child get to reality ? He apparently has never been there. The thing is, he'd like to use an ATM himself. If Bush made that crazy comment, the lame stream would still be talking about it. Sort of like 57 states. Take Michelle home,. there King Husseiny and you both can use the ATM and act normal. Oh, you will never get rid of that peskie Secret Service Moochelle.

Taxpayer1234   June 18th, 2011 - 8:38 am

LOL!

quivive   June 18th, 2011 - 8:48 am

That one gives me hope.

swampfaye   June 18th, 2011 - 8:52 am

The biggest killer in the country is not obesity, it's growing old(er). BAN AGING!

DDLGrays   June 18th, 2011 - 9:00 am

This sadly, is not nonsense. It is a clear indicator of how clueless Obama is on the economy. He may not be proposing the banning of ATMS here (yet), but does seem to be blaming technology for the employment mess he – and his liberal cohorts in Congress – created. Technology from the private sector creates wealth, which in turn is used to create jobs to create more wealth.

burns1   June 18th, 2011 - 9:06 am

I am betting the idiot Nobama doesn't even know how to use an ATM machine.

claspur   June 18th, 2011 - 9:15 am

Doesn't surprise me about the Japanese doing that with the burgers. They don't have a meat industry there anyway.
That PDF I posted to read, I got upto Pg. 40 this morning-early…. sure makes a lot of sense-seeing how things have gone over the last century and are going now.
Someone showed me that book about seven years ago, along with another one that I can't recall the name of? I wasn't that far into thinking along those lines of global banking an mega-rich oligarchial NWO stuff at that time. No more of that-though. This book is short, and will finish it tomorrow… pass it along.

fastfacts   June 18th, 2011 - 9:17 am

FOCUS ON THE SOURCE OF OUR PROBLEMS, OBAMA AND LIBERALISM

Another good at is Romney 20,000,000 speed bumps played off of Obama’s words. This is the sequel of his last one “We aren’t speed bumps”: http://tiny.cc/hmnk9

OR the GOP‘s celebration of the anniverary of Obama’s ‘Recovery Summer’: http://tiny.cc/4dz06

duh_swami   June 18th, 2011 - 9:17 am

Why take sick people to jail and cost the well people more money…Just dump them in an empty field somewhere…

publius74   June 18th, 2011 - 9:30 am

This is like a reverse IQ test. If you sign this petition, then you should be put on a list of the criminally dumb.

buddha_8   June 18th, 2011 - 9:30 am

Will Obama also ban the Presidential use of the autopen machine for signing the Patriot Act renewal?

And GM's robots–I mean the machines, not the mindless union workers?

Did you notice who signed this dumb petition–esp. racial and gender profile. Guess this is the core 40% Obama herd-voters. Whatever the Lord Obama says, I agree–no matter how Stupid! With voters like this, how is it any wonder that America has descended into the dark abyss of politically correct social regression of multi-culturalism and
dumb-down economics(we all are entitled to an equal piece of the pie–even if we're lazy or union, or govt
employees)of the even dumber mob/masses?

We desperately need a Qualifying Exam for all to be eligible to vote–like the Drivers License, and Car Insurance
Obama uses as a paradigm for justifying his Individual Mandate in Health Insurance.

If you can't pass a basic American History,& US Constitution Exam–in English–you can't vote. That alone will bring Obama's herd of sheep voters down to maybe a 10% group of Chris Matthews look-alikes!

publius74   June 18th, 2011 - 9:31 am

What went wrong is you actually took this bit seriously. LOL.

publius74   June 18th, 2011 - 9:32 am

BAN Windmills, they destroy jobs!

henrythin   June 18th, 2011 - 9:43 am

Yes, it was nice to see and hear an older American display the wisdom that comes with age.

RightUnite   June 18th, 2011 - 9:57 am

Agreed! All is not lost yet.

RightUnite   June 18th, 2011 - 9:57 am

No, that was a camel he rode in on.

SunCrackedSoul   June 18th, 2011 - 10:05 am

i hardly ever use an ATM, and banks have plenty of tellers. obama is a fool

SunCrackedSoul   June 18th, 2011 - 10:09 am

Anybody remember the Automat? huh? no?

USAfirst   June 18th, 2011 - 10:12 am

obama has to be the stupidist jackass in the world. maybe we should ban engines on cruise ships and bring back rowers

USAfirst   June 18th, 2011 - 10:15 am

these people (obama voters) should not be allowed to vote

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:25 am

I can almost smell the sweat wafting from the bean fields….or is that soylent green?

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:31 am

what strength, having a flash into the real world for a moment before flicking that split tongue to see how to best screw the public? He as much admits his trillions spent have done nothing to offset a failed economic model which can no longer be blamed on Bush. To blame it on technology is preposterous.

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:35 am

The old Egyptian way? Didn't they even work smarter not harder? LOL Maybe the Mao way. Actually I think he has the middle eastern economic model in mind for us. Palaces and plenty for the elite, mud huts grain and suffering as Allah requires for the dummies.

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:37 am

Obama is lamenting the lack of social justice for machines. They get no gubmint entitlements and can not vote for commies.

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:38 am

uh oh, mental overload….abort…abort….abort.

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:41 am

I heard they were weaponizing bodily discharges in the git no mo. You've confirmed the reports. Thank you.

Usrnaim   June 18th, 2011 - 10:50 am

Ban the 18-31 year old liberal electorate

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:51 am

I'll get crucified for saying this but the really big invention that turned the US into a world power was the cotton gin. Second to that was the combine. Henry Ford only took the insult to human intelligence to the brink when he gave a whole bunch of people a simple task just like our government. Now look what happened. They're all overpaid, useless jobs that a hand held communication device has usurped.

SupernaturalCat   June 18th, 2011 - 10:56 am

ban socialists and save America.

A_pen   June 18th, 2011 - 10:57 am

I just had a great idea thanks to your observation. Since we have two competing governments we should have two bank accounts completely separate so whatever party/ government is elected they operate on their own economic model. If, like in monopoly, you have to sell off assets to stay solvent then the better model should eventually rise to serve the public.

Progressives will want to be banker. That's a no no as all banking must be done by the people. Roll.

clydewmorgan   June 18th, 2011 - 10:58 am

that is another example of the structural issues. that is to say, jobs done by humans are being replaced by jobs done machine. why is that idiotic, in the sense it is accurate.

have you read grapes of wrath?

RESPUBLICAUS   June 18th, 2011 - 11:26 am

Ah the Luddite Left is alive and well.

AZCobraman   June 18th, 2011 - 11:52 am

But I bet I know who she voted for….

Whatever   June 18th, 2011 - 11:53 am

Obama's business ignorance is breathtaking. His impromptu speaking gets him in trouble every time. What he really needs is an earpiece where he gets fed what to say. This will have to do until they invent portable teleprompters.

alwaysright5   June 18th, 2011 - 12:06 pm

Well, he is from Kenya, and may be he just wants to "feel at home".

tinman2k   June 18th, 2011 - 12:10 pm

How dare our private sector become efficient and employ less people! Only if our sick/stupid government can be just as efficient! Lets start with the golfer-in-chief

DoMeTony!   June 18th, 2011 - 12:33 pm

Are you saying ATMs freed up some of your time to do more productive things? Why, I'll bet you are. Screw the Luddites.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.h...

DoMeTony!   June 18th, 2011 - 12:33 pm

Here's a little "progressive" history:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.h...

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