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Elizabeth Warren

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3. In concept, it's an excellent idea, but...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 07:29 AM

Jun 2016

I haven't heard anything about access. My post office is 6 miles away and not accessible by bus or train. Other areas are worse, with some PO's having been closed.

Yes, no doubt there are areas where PO access is better than banks, but it still needs some more thought. Check cashing places and payday lenders have filled a niche, albeit often cruelly, but how to compete with them with a fairer product is still a little up in the air.

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Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office [View all] eridani Jun 2016 OP

She has an ally in Senator Sanders That Guy 888 Jun 2016 #1

It's past time to make this happen. nt Ilsa Jun 2016 #2

In concept, it's an excellent idea, but... TreasonousBastard Jun 2016 #3

The perfect is the enemy of the good Proud Public Servant Jun 2016 #5

nailed it. hueymahl Jun 2016 #6

It wasn't that many years ago the same argument could be used to justify the mob loan sharks. rhett o rick Jun 2016 #7

What argument justifies loan sharking? I simply said... TreasonousBastard Jun 2016 #14

"Check cashing places and payday lenders have filled a niche," rhett o rick Jun 2016 #16

Well, they have filled a niche-- the point is to get something else for that niche... TreasonousBastard Jun 2016 #18

We can put crack dealers into jail but we can't do the same for the pay-day loan sharks, esp rhett o rick Jun 2016 #19

The only niche they have filled is that of a legal loan shark and the people are the cstanleytech Jun 2016 #10

That's true, but my point is find an alternative to the neighborhood loand shark... TreasonousBastard Jun 2016 #15

My brother past away a couple of weeks ago. For many years before his death he was on Social Dustlawyer Jun 2016 #4

ISP too, please. Scuba Jun 2016 #8

Won't this put her on the wrong side of Debbie "payday loan" Wasserman-Schultz? nm rhett o rick Jun 2016 #9

Schultz is a nothing, she has some sway but in the end the ones cstanleytech Jun 2016 #11

In her current position she wields a lot of power and I bet Hillary shows her gratitude rhett o rick Jun 2016 #12

I wouldnt object to Hillary giving her a position. cstanleytech Jun 2016 #13

I want to see her fight for her seat in Congress against other Democrats, of course. nm rhett o rick Jun 2016 #17