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« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2008, 07:36:37 pm » |
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I've had to put a lot of focus on Capital One lately. In doing so I happened to read the company president's message to somebody, maybe investors? She wrote that Capital One will be getting 3.5 billion in the bail out funds, but they actually didn't need any bail out funds.
They're jacking people's interest rates for no real reason, other than because they can right now. It's not like you can get a home equity loan, or any other decent rate loan, to pay off bad credit card debt in a pinch. And so they're planning to use taxpayer funds which will undoubtedly mean more rip-offs for consumers, because they operate in states that have little or meaningless regulation.
How a bank president can say with a straight face, we're taking 3.5 billion taxpayer dollars we don't even need because their industry just naturally helps consumers? Don’t you normally have to be on crack to say something that stupid in these times?
I don’t think there is a such thing as a good for consumers credit card company in America. If anything, they and their banking buddies are destroying Americans falling on hard times, and yet we're still giving them more money so in essence banks can still regulate our economy by creating what, more bad debt? I mean, what are they going to do different that makes them an automatically good investment to taxpayers?
Sure it's legal free enterprise when you can nail people with defective homes, rip-off ARMs, junk fees all over the industry, overpriced housing while on the top of the bubble, and still now they are shamelessly willing to gouge people to financial oblivion with a myriad of banking profit schemes. Can anyone still say that letting this industry just have its way works best in the end? Is their no middle ground between state controlled business and just admitting there is a blatantly obvious lack of regulation?
Unbridled greed is what sunk the industry. We are a nation of laws because we recognize that letting every person have absolute freedom, is not freedom for every person. Just because you're a big business doesn't mean you're going to operate as Infallible people. Giving companies bail out funds to continue the same policies that have clearly caused harm to the economy and consumer interests isn't really a bail out; it's another level of rip-off. I know there is legitimate need for some bail outs, but this is already looking like a disastrous effort to fix a disaster.
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