Americans Aren't Buying Into The Elites' Cashless Utopia

Nearly two-thirds of Americans were against a cashless society, according to a recent survey conducted by CivicScience.

Mobile payment and cashless stores are popping up across the country, between stores like Amazon Go and payment options like Apple Pay. Using these services requires access to the banking system, namely a bank account and a credit card. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in 2017 FDIC survey showed that 6.5 percent of U.S. households were unbanked, meaning they lacked a checking or savings account, and an additional 18.7 percent of households were underbanked, meaning they had a checking or savings account but obtained financial products, like money orders or payday loans, outside of the banking system.

As Statista's Sarah Feldman notes, some advocates and legislators worry that an increasingly cashless world will further disenfranchise America’s homeless and working poor, who may fall into these unbanked and underbanked categories. New Jersey and Massachusetts both have laws that prohibit stores from discriminating against customers choosing to use cash. Cities, like Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, D.C., and San Francisco, all have proposed or have laws regulating cashless stores.

Advocates of cashless stores point to the increased speed and ease of payment for customers, and the lower rates of theft that cashless places of business experience. Some cashless options, like Square Inc. and PayPal, offer payment services that don’t require a bank account. About 23 percent of respondents from CivicScience's survey said they were all for or OK with a cashless society. Just under a tenth of respondents did not have an opinion on whether having a cashless society would be a good thing or not.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-13/americans-arent-buying-elites-cashless-utopia

Chris Cuomo: ‘I’m Not Going to Let People Say’ That CNN, Establishment Media Created ‘False Narrative’ Around Russia

During an on-air appearance Thursday, CNN host Chris Cuomo said that he wasn’t “going to let” people say that establishment media outlets, including his own, were misleading the public on the Trump-Russia story.

“I’m not going to let people say that, you know, CNN or the media, or whatever, have been creating a false narrative,” Cuomo declared.

“This report is plenty of proof that the questions that have been asked repeatedly were legit and that the answers we were getting consistently were not, especially once you get past the line of, ‘Hey, are you a felon?’ Once you move past that–the things they did, the meetings they had, the explanations they gave, were wrong consistently,” Cuomo said.

“One other point that I want to make, too. The reporting was, almost in every case correct. Read the Mueller report. All that reporting, we and a lot of other outlets did, had it nailed,” CNN reporter Chris Cillizza said in response.

CNN covered the Trump-Russia story nearly constantly for over two years, and last summer was engulfed in scandal over a shaky story about President Trump having prior knowledge of a meeting in Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer and campaign aides.

Some on CNN haven’t given up hope. Commentator Dana Bash simply declared on air Thursday that there was “‘collusion’ in the truest definition of the word” between the Trump campaign and Russia.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/18/chris-cuomo-im-not-going-to-let-people-say-that-cnn-establishment-media-created-false-narrative-around-russia/