Even so, it was downright perverse of him to send cheques for $500-a-piece 500-a-piece 500-a-piece to 10
Unless you dig deep and send cheques to the Americans for a More American America Foundation or ProsperityWorks or whatever.
And the EU will no longer allow all those bearded supporters in Europe to send cheques "Payable to: Hezbollah" in the mail.
It's been around for 350 years, and apparently grannies like to send cheques through the post to their grandkids at Christmas.
If the private sector will not spend, the government can do it instead, borrowing to cut taxes, send cheques to households, build infrastructure or even extinguish underwater mortgages.
In response to his demand, anti-gay marriage organisers urged supporters to send cheques for between 10 centimes and €1 to the Paris city hall; about 9,000 people did so.
We send cheques to save black people in Africa, never asking the question how the richest continent in the world can possibly have even a single impoverished person.
America, still sending cheques, has been left wringing its hands about what to do next.
It's incredibly risky sending cheques for such large sums in the post.
Long before this week, Mr Obama had proposed sending cheques to the middle class, to be partially paid for with a tax on oil companies' "windfall profits".
A flood of correspondence from well-wishers after Linda's death has strengthened that interest: many who wrote, often sending cheques for the foundation, were also bereaved widows and parents who wrote openly about their grief and loss.
