What is the answer to the problem posed by the U.S. Banks?

@sharone74 (4837)
United States
May 9, 2009 9:30am CST
Is anyone else finding themselves as pissed off at the banks as I am? To a degree I feel like the banks are sandbagging about their viability so that they can continue to hold the entire country hostage and demand yet more ranson from the coffers of the American people. Firstly there is no possible way that the banks are broke as they claim to be. We are still depositing our paychecks, and capital gains (what few there are) into the banks and entrusting it to them for safekeeping even after they have proven beyond a doubt that they are not capable of safeguarding our money or the countries well-being. If it were not for the banks loaning out not only our money which they shouldn't do unless we place our funds in money market or brokerage accounts, and certifying loans that they knew were based on inflated income information, they would still have money to lend and we would not be in this predicament in the first place. I am also left wondering why we are bailing out the banks when banks should be among the most secure and stable businesses in the country. and if they are not capable of figuring out how to remain solvent then they should go under. We cannot afford to let them go under because we will lose billions of dollars that are on deposit with these banks. There is also the question of who would step into their shoes whom we could trust to properly manage America's financial health. They know these things so they just continue to run the game making demands and threats of dire circumstances if they are allowed to fold. After we loaned the major banks over 160 billion dollars, they have the unmitigated gaul to raise both interest rates on credit cards and the rates for all of their services because they say that if we don't yeild and give them what they want they will still go under. I'm like "excuse me, we the people, are having a much tougher time with this economic downturn than the banks are having, yet we allocated money that we could ill afford to bail the failing banks out of the souo that they started and brought to a boil. What do they turn around in their gratitude, uh I mean greed, they immediately start trying to get more by jacking up their prices on us, when President Obama stood up for us and told the banks they couldn't do this their next step was to go back to the people's representatives and try to talk them out of another $75 billion dollars to balance their books back to being in the black or at lkeast deeper in the red. I feel that a viable business should manage their business to ensure that they continuously have money coming into their accounts to cover expenditures and the planned and budgeted for additions. If a business provides financial services and they end up managing the business right into the ground, why shouldn't that business be allowed to fail? They obviously don't know what the are doing!
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
9 May 09
Some banks are not good and some are good, like the other day, the Bank credit me so I didn't have to owe them 90 dollars, they chared me overdraft fees just for $4.00 it went to $4.00 to 90.00 but the bank mannagar straiten it out for me.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
9 May 09
That $86 is quite a difference isn't it? I once had a bank overdraft me for 84 cents. This is one of the reasons that I call them terrorists. But with a constant positive cash flow coming in at a nearly constant rate coupled with these kinds of fees there is no possible way that the banks can be broke.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
10 May 09
that is how they make there money off us, You and Me, and the world.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
15 May 09
I don't keep a bank account and as a webcam performer and gentlemen's club performer my money is either all in cash or direct deposited to my debit cards, so the banks don't make much off of me. What burns my butt so much about the whole thing is the way they are terrorizing the nation and then demanding blood money from us to keep them in business. Why should we have to shore up privatly held companies that are too stupid to remain solvent when these businesses are in the BANKING business.
• United States
9 May 09
The majority of banks this is happening with are Federal Reserve banks, and our government owes them phat loot (in the trillions) for all the ridiculous spending. Since there is no money to pay up, the government cannot allow their banking system to fail. Henry Ford, Ike Eisenhower, and many others during and since that time have predicted that this would happen eventually. Now it's happening.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
10 May 09
It is Highway Robbery. The Banks ought to be a shame of themselves ripping people off like that, the Credit Card Companies too. the President is going to have some laws about Credit Card fees, so the Credit Card people will stop these high interest rates.
@sharone74 (4837)
• United States
9 May 09
Long time no hear from VI. You are right, about the out of control spending. The reason that they can't allow the banking system to fail is because thousands of little people like you and I will not be able to get our money if we make a run on the banks and that will plunge the country into even more dire straits. Plus the fact that we have to have a banking system and if we let these money mismanaging yokels go under who will step in to take their place. The government is thinking that foreign banks will step into the breach and will basically end up owning our country in every thing but name.
• Kottayam, India
11 May 09
basically it is not how to manage, but how to dispense the finance with suitable safeguard and no one should be allowed to misuse public money.stringent laws should be in place very quickly to avoid further slump. I think President Obama should take due consideration on this issue on a permanent basis. It is not only in US, the effect will be global.