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Do not listen to the pundits, plants and other posers pronouncing the nixing of bank debit card ...
  • ironboltbruce November 2011 +1 -1
    People! People! People! Do not listen to the pundits, plants and other posers pronouncing the nixing of bank debit card fees as some great victory for democracy that we should all go home and celebrate. The banksters threw us a bone, and that's all. They have trillions more dollars stolen, thousands more families displaced, and hundreds more lives destroyed - and in some cases taken - to be held accountable for...
  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi November 2011 +1 -1
    NPR covered that today. Though it may be attributed to the OWS movement it is certainly not a goal.
  • BrightestEyeBrightestEye November 2011 +1 -1
    Yes, I've heard, I think of this way. We are climbing a row of stairs to reach our destination, this is only the first step. We can rejoice but we will not be swayed from our original idea. Our nonviolent movement will live on. I drew all my money out of B of A today even though they stopped the $5 fee. I never felt so free but despite that, OWS will finish what we started.

    Peace,

    BrightestEye
  • Renaissance4SeattleRenaissance4Seattle November 2011 +1 -1
    So B of A isn't going to charge $5 anymore?
  • Brutal_Truth November 2011 +1 -1
    They're hoping this makes us all go away. I had no idea bankers were so naive.
  • KnaveDave December 2011 +1 -1
    I wrote to a friend the second this was announced that Bank of America (and all those who quickly followed them even at such a touchy time as this to use one more way of grabbing their customer's money) was so greedy in making this move that they'd lose many customers over it. Sure enough; they did. I wrote the same thing to the same friend when on the very day when Netflix announced its changes (and to Netflix's CEO, though I realized he would never actually see it), and sure enough they, too, lost millions of customers over their blantantly foolish changes. Both have had to backstep quickly because of popular protest by their customers. I wrote also about H-P making absurd changes, and days later the CEO who made those changes was fired (though not because of my letter, of course). All of this proves how arrogant and stupid the CEOs at the top of these corporations can be like I wrote long ago in an article in the Hudson Valley Business Journal ( http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/2009/01/downtime-part-7-things-to-do-with-a-failed-bank/ ). All the more reason for Occupy Wall Street to protest the huge disparity in pay they receive and the now-publicly-funded bonuses they get for breaking the backs of their own corporations with their stupidity. Clearly they ARE NOT worth the big money that boards approve.

    --Knave Dave
    http://thegreatrecession.info/blog
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