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The Viciousness of American Banks
We the consumers are nothing but chum bloating their revenue streams — Yippee!
Dear reader, or shall I say dear consumer…nope, that also does not capture just what you are. Let me start again. Dear plump, juicy seal out for a morning swim, I want to let you know that the shark isn’t circling, it’s coming straight for you.
This is not an article about sharks, though, as interesting as that would be. It is about the American banking system and the traitorous politicians who support the crooks around whom so much of our daily lives revolve.
Having spent most of the past 30 years banking in Russia and Europe, except for a brief period of bloodletting that took place at the hands of Bank of America (BOA), another BOA crime — and that is what these assaults on consumers are — has set me onto yet another pre-coffee, a.m., shouting fit.
Why are American consumers so passive when it comes to the antics of Big Bank? What is it that prevents all of us from hurdling the political party barriers that separate us and demanding fair and non-criminal banking practices? Why when we give our hard-earned money to the banks, do they act as if they are doing us a favor by giving it back? And in the instances when we lose track of how much is on the account or a check from an…
