Travel incentives
The suppliers of credit cards have climbed aboard the frequent flyer program and are offering travel points if you charge everything you buy.
I suppose this is one way to encourage us all to keep the economy on the move.
We buy goods and create employment for folks in the business arena.
Then once we accumulate the required number of points we are reminded that we can now fly to Hamilton or Ucluelet at no cost.
Huh. That’s no cost if we don’t eat or sleep or buy any of Mr. McCain’s potato chips.
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The world of finance is changing so rapidly there is pressure to move quickly on redeeming credit card travel credits.
We are told a cashless society is our fate for the 21st century.
Actually, we had a cashless society in the 1930s and were happy to see the end of it.
We are now being set up for the new order as the government manufactures more and less user-friendly coinage.
The theory, I’m sure, is that after walking with a limp brought on by five pounds of twoneys, loonies, quarters, nickels and dimes in your pocket, you’ll be happy to abandon cash.
I’ve just got used to how one operates a money machine.
Now we can do all our money transactions by dialling a few numbers on the telephone.
There too you can gain points for travel.
Even Saskatchewan Wheat Pool has a plan to aid you in building credits toward that big trip.
What I can’t fathom is, if everyone is batting around the world redeeming their travel points, who’s going to be home to fire up the snow blower and recycle the junk mail?
