1/12 Can library fines affect your credit rating?
\_ Just pay them; a library is one of few institutions
that could probably use the money for a good cause.
\_ In general, I agree. These are fines from over 10 years ago
from the town where I went to highschool which I never intend
to return to. The librarians there are evil assholes who exist
only to persecute everyone who is not a bitchy old lady like
themselves. They refuse to accept payment by mail, and demand
that I return to their shitty library to pay the fines in
person. If it were any other library in the world, I never
would have let it get to this point in the first place.
\_ hahahaha good cause? I don't think the public library is
all that great. This is one fine example where the tax
dollar is used inefficiently. How about less tax and more
money for people to buy good books? Fuck all government
aided infrastructures, let the people rule.
-less tax more self-reliance guy
\_ Go look up the budget for your town and decide whether the
library even makes the top 50 list for pork. Seriously.
Go look it up.
\_ Go look up the budget for your town and decide whether the
library even makes the top 50 list for pork. Seriously.
Go look it up. Also, every time I go to my local library
(I live in a medium sized city), I see some kind of job
training or literacy program being hosted there, and I see
a lot of poor people reading who I'm guessing would not
otherwise be. It seems to me that this translates directly
into more economic productivity for poor people, hence less
welfare outlay and more tax revenue for the government. So
if you're just going to look at it in terms of tax revenue,
over a long period of time, I'm pretty sure the library is
a net gain.
\_ People become poor and unable to afford books because
the government allows (in fact entices) them to be
lazy through things like welfare and public library.
Once you cut them loose you will be amazed how self-
reliant they can be. Besides, why do people who cannot
support themselves deserve to read anything anyway?
\_ I have zits on my ass that could troll better than
you.
-less tax more self-reliance guy
\_ Uhm, the majority of people who are unemployed or
poor aren't lazy. Ever heard of supply and demand?
When the labor demand goes down, the supply stays
the same and people end up being unemployment and
as a result poor. No matter how self-reliant you are
when the economy is bad everyone loses. It's like
being in a tsunami. You're just one person. If the
environment is not conducive to you being employed,
you don't have much control over it. Most people
don't realize how easy it is to be completely wiped
out until it happens to them.
\_ Library fines don't go to the library. Typically they go to the
city (or county) general fund. --married a librarian
\-Dear Married to a Librarian: can you ask your spouse what is
the typical lag time between an anticipated book coming out ...
say something by a major author like Tom Wolfe, but not
something like Harry Potter, and the library gettin it on their
shelf? It seems like it is more than a "couple of days".
I could understand the delay if it was somehow cheeper to
go through some special publisher's channel but as far as I
know, that is not the case [I believe the SF Pub Lib paid
more per copy of Harry Potter than was the AMAZONG price].
ok tnx. --psb |
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