Guilty

Don't you just hate being guilty of a crime until you are otherwise proven innocent? I am referring to the habit of retailers (you know who you are Wal-Mart) inspecting and verifying with their fancy little marking pen, every bill larger than a 10 spot. I will grant them that they cant accept counterfeit cash, but but they have to make it so blatant? Right in front of me, god and everyone? No one seems to care if your debit or credit card is fake or stolen as long as the machine says "approved." But hand them cash, and suddenly you become "Public Enemy #1" until that infernal little marker exonerates you.
I don't care what modifications have to be made to the banking system, or build scanners into the cash drawers, or some other technology, not my problem or responsibility. You don't want my cash? Fine, put up a small sign saying so and I will go elsewhere. But don't treat your customers like criminals.
I'm sure its all part of a conspiracy by the banking cartel to wean us off the cash standard, much like they did the gold standard in 1907. And of course the federal imperial government probably has their hand in on it too. The benefits to the banking, financial, and government agency's of a cashless monetary system are enormous... for them. For you and me, it only means less liberty, and more efficient means of tracking the individual. Already, a vast number of crimes are solved through following an electronic trail of money transactions. Unfortunately, a lot more legitimate transactions have to be scrutinized to find the criminal ones. Now imagine a world without cash, all electronic, easily accessible by any agency, or even hackers. The potential for abuse is unimaginable.
Do you really want your purchase history known to every government hack, and banking employee? For then to know that your last five purchases were a doctors services, a script for penicillin at Walgreen's, a box of condoms from Wal-mart, half a dozen leather straps from Luscious Leather Goods, and 3 porn DVD's from Woody's Toolshed? I didn't think so. And why? Because it is no one's business but your own.
So the next time your cash is inspected before its accepted, think about where its leading, and maybe protest a little at being guilty until proven innocent.