Bank’s suck. No seriously they do. They are behemouth organizations that are slow to change, don’t give a shit about their customers, and are inherently dishonest. All one has to do is look at the current financial mess they have gotten themselves into to see that they were doing something on the shadey side.
Now they ask for bailout money. “Help us, we’re in trouble!” they cry. But please ignore the record profits we’ve been recording for the previous 10 years; the executive bonuses that would make Midas gush like a little school girl; the dodgy business practices that we’ve employed, and will continue to employ until a law is enacted to make us stop. (did we mention we own the politicians?)
If you doubt that banks are inherently evil watch this documentary on the root of money. Keep in mind the dishonest practices right from the very beginning to get around canonical laws that said Christians could not be money lenders.
After watching that, then look at what the previous administration did to the US, and the heap of shit that poor Obama now has to deal with. If you are visually inclined here is a great diagram on the NYTimes website which illustrates this recession.
Anyway, if you doubted that banks couldn’t become bigger scumbags than they currently are, they have now started targetting the greiving families of dead people. Well done banks. Setting an all time low, in a year of all time lows.