Posted on 01/07/2013 12:44:50 PM PST by neverdem
1994 - Worthen is sold to Boatmen's Bancshares, a large St. Louis-based regional bank. Two years later, Boatmen's is sold to NationsBank, which in turn becomes Bank of America.
https://www.stephens.com/about_stephens_inc.aspx
Real Estate Loan Controversy In 1994, columnist Jack Anderson reported that Stephanopoulos sealed an $835,000 commercial real estate deal consisting of a two-story apartment including an eyeware retailer with a below-market loan rate from a bank owned by Hugh McColl who had been called by President Clinton "the most enlightened banker in America". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephanopoulos
The art of the deal.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2975744/posts?page=17#17
BREAKING NEWS: CT School Shooter Killer Link To LIBOR SCANDAL
http://newsworldwide.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/breaking-news-ct-school-shooter-killer-link-to-libor-scandal/
Libor scandal grows as the fathers of two mass murderers were to testify
http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify
Gunman’s computers may be key in Connecticut school shooting investigation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2969326/posts
Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Owner, Calls for Automatic Weapons Ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2969123/posts
Murdoch calls for automatic weapons ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968913/posts
Rupert Murdoch Tells Romney To ‘Stop Fearing [The] Far Right’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929478/posts
Murdoch Apologizes for ‘Jewish-Owned Media’ Tweet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2961268/posts?page=1
"Gun-Control Group Changes Name, Keeps Agenda"
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5C%5CNation%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200106%5C%5CNAT20010615a.html
(and Bill is a contributor)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec97/guns_11-4.html
(more money for gun control from Gates and his father)
"Is Bill Gates a closet liberal?"
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_29feature.html
(Bill Gates for gun control, pro-abortion, etc.)
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/madminute/1997/mm970040.htm
(Gates on gun control)
My wife felt the same way. She watched as her boss and 10 loan officers were canned. Then she lost from 15 employees which her department had to support her boss and the 10, go from 15 to 4. They stayed that way for a couple of years and then she and 3 got canned. One guy, the only newer one, they kept. He was low paid. Of all the people that worked in her section and the other 7 same type offices around the country, all total, about 85% of them were over 55 years old and had worked that section for 15 or more years. My wife actually was able to finally after 4 months get on with a very small bank near our home in WA state, but it was in trouble. We left WA state soon after that and came back to Alabama. A year or so after we left, that bank was taken over by the Feds. Glad she quit and we came home. Worked out best for us.
Shun them, shame them, abuse them.
I am getting used to actively doing theses things in all aspects in my life. It is against my nature, as it does make me appear to be mean. My latest act of meanness was at the grocery store about an hour ago. The woman ahead of me was having problems with her EBT card (Food Stamps) in the self-checkout line. She was complaining/giving crap to a high school kid working at the store and holding me up. (Amazing contrast by the way. A 17 year old, I know her, she goes to school and is friends with my daughter. She is working a job after school where she gets great grades. The food stamp woman was middle aged, fat, poorly dressed and completely illiterate ... Could not speak the American language if her life depended on it.)
This is the exchange that I had with her.
Me: "Shut your Obama loving pie hole and stop complaining, but before you do anything, say thank you."
She: "Say what?"
Me: "I said, 'say thank you.'"
She: "to who?", with her big fat lip sticking out.
Me: "To the person who is trying to help you, and to me."
She: "why you?"
Me: "because I am paying for your food stamps. Have you no shame?"
She shut up, but she didn't say thank you. Just what you would expect from one of Obama's people. At least she wasn't bothering my daughter's friend anymore.
Starve the beast. Stop using credit cards, use a local credit union if you need a bank account. Pay cash as much as possible. Support local businesses. Do as little business as possible with crony capitalists like Walmart, GM, Chrysler, GE, big insurance companies, all the big banks, etc..
LOL!
Isn’t BOA one of the banks Obama bailed out? It’s a leftist organization and as such, it should be DESTROYED. (JMO) Instead, it will probably be propped up with OUR MONEY.
Gads, I hate this administration.
Screwing the masses is what leftists do best. And all the while pretending to be “for” the little guy. Too bad there are enough stupid voters in America now to not know any better.
Lemme guess. BofA has ARMED guards.
“I just had the same thing happen to me less than two weeks ago. I have 31 years in with a Fortune 50 company...our jobs are going off to India and we have to train our replacements. America no longer has a market economy — it’s closer to corporate fascism. Big Business + Big Government = Screw the American worker (especially if you are an American white male over age 50). Excuse me if I seem jaded...but I am, watching what has happened to America generally and myself specifically.”
You have my sympathy; while stories like yours should have sunk Obama, I believe there may have been an undercurrent of support for him from people in your position that just assumed (in this economy) that they wouldn’t be working again for years (if ever, and even then probably not at their prior wage levels). Too many people know too many other people that have been screwed in this “global economy”, and it just doesn’t make sense that Obama would win. I guess nobody believed Romney could save their jobs either (and they’d probably be right).
The most alarming consequence of this whole economy is the drop of the taxpayers’ birthrate to 0 (excluding “takers” such as cops, teachers, etc. - I generally don’t classify them as taxpayers).
Will a pit bull lawyer please answer the red courtesy phone...
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