This is my rant about the two banks above. I saw a story on Fox News where a credit card company ran up this ladys’ interest rate and she did a video on YouTube and the company reduced her interest rate because she went public on them. This is my reason for speaking out against Chase and Citigroup.
According to CNN, they received 25 Billion Dollars. It was the largest amount given to any bank, with Citigroup and Wells Fargo also receiving the same amount.
To receive that much money from the taxpayers, and then for them to turn right around and run up their interest rates and up their payments so people can’t pay it, is just wrong. They are both getting tax payer money, and charging outrageous interest rates and upping payments to their customers, and they don’t care.
These business programs all say that these sharks will work with you, but they won’t. I find both of them repulsive in the way that they deal with their customers. I have been unemployed since last June, and they won’t work with me on my payments.
Anyone else have any problems with these banks? I thought that I heard Neil Cavuto say that they were contributors of Acorn, so I found this article about their Acorn ties. The more I look, the more I find.
“Continued identification with ACORN harms the company’s brand name and reputation, and carries special risks for this company, a recipient of taxpayer TARP funds,” he wrote. “The New York Times has identified you as President Obama’s `favorite banker.’”
Flaherty also points out that donations to the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) and its affiliates actually run counter to the bank’s own policy statements. Financial support is restricted from “programs designed to promote religious or political doctrines,” according to the JP Morgan Chase web site.
Here is an excerpt from Michelle Malkin about Acorn and Citigroup:
GOP California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now wants an investigation. But neither the Terminator nor any other California public officials raised a peep when the very same San Diego ACORN office publicly announced a partnership with Citibank to secure home loans for illegal aliens. In 2005, Citibank and ACORN Housing Corporation – which has received tens of millions of tax dollars under the Bush administration alone — began recruiting Mexican illegal aliens for a lucrative program offering loans with below-market interest rates, down-payment assistance and no mortgage insurance requirements. Instead of Social Security numbers required of law-abiding citizens, the program allows illegal alien applicants to supply loosely-monitored tax identification numbers issued by the IRS.
Here is Michelle’s article about acorn, and illegal alien home loan racket.
On Monday, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill tried a new tack in rebutting the protesters while also minimizing their complaints. She got several hands when she asked audience members at a town hall meeting to raise their hands if they’re so scared about the federal government running health care that they “can’t think straight.”
It all has to do with their attitude. I have heard her on Fox News twice this past week, and I must admit that her attitude is better than any of the rest of the Congressmen over this health care debate. Even though I don’t agree with her politics, I think that she showed respect for her constituents this week.
Pelosi, and the others have been despicable, however.
For Pelosi and Hoyer, they charged that an “ugly campaign” is afoot to misrepresent the legislation, “disrupt” the public meetings and prevent members of Congress from “conducting a civil dialogue” on the topic.
“Let the facts be heard,” they wrote. “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”
The “un-American” dig was a sign the debate is heating up. In a tight spot, Pelosi is known for employing tough rhetoric and accusations to muscle her way out.
Back in September 2008, Pelosi used similar language to complain about Republicans who weren’t showing up to talks on a Wall Street bailout package.
“I thought it was very unpatriotic of them not to show up, not to show up, in some ways, boycott the meetings earlier in the week,” she said.
She also reportedly called the GOP budget in 2006 “unpatriotic” because it drove up the national debt.
This past May, she accused the CIA of lying to Congress, as she was facing questions about how much she knew early on about the Bush administration’s interrogation policies.
Then last week, with the health care debate growing more heated, she invoked Nazi Germany, accusing protesters of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that” to meetings. A spokesman for Pelosi later said the speaker was referencing a photo taken at a town hall meeting hosted by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., which showed a protester holding a sign of a swastika crossed out over President Obama’s name and a question mark.
Yet the language Pelosi is using for health care critics is nothing like the language she used to describe anti-war protesters criticized by war supporters as unpatriotic.
Pelosi, who led efforts to withdraw from Iraq before troops had finished the job, tolerated anti-war hecklers on several occasions.
“It’s always exciting,” she said of protesters who interrupted a meeting in January 2006, according to an account in the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is democracy in action. I’m energized by it, frankly.”
At an event in June 2007, she told anti-war protesters “just go for it, I respect your enthusiasm,” according to another account.
The claims of “un-American” behavior by critics is not something made by President Obama, who on Monday withheld criticism of his health care detractors.
“We are having a vigorous debate in the United States and I think that’s a healthy thing,” he said, speaking at a North American summit in Mexico.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said there’s not really any “substantive difference” between the anti-war protests of MoveOn and Code Pink then and the health care reform criticism today — other than the subject being addressed.
Cornyn told FOX News he thinks the latest charge of being “un-American” is a “pretty harsh statement” about Americans who have serious concerns about the health care legislation.
I think that Obama’ commented today like that due to him knowing what Pelosi said. Also, a certain Democrat from Georgia is going to here from me about how he acted at a townhall meeting in Douglasville, Ga.
I just hope that everyone remembers how the Democrats have treated their constituents during this debate when it is time to vote. They need to learn who puts them in office.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s police department is investigating why an officer used his police car’s computer to run a criminal background check on President Barack Obama.
Two Atlanta-area police officers are accused of a similar unauthorized background check on the president July 20. DeKalb County officers Ryan White and C.M. Route were placed on paid administrative leave.
Check out this article:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_obama_resistance_grows.html
I am mad at the Dems for trying to blame everyone else for people being upset about Obamacare. The whole Obamacare program angers me, and nobody has to put me up to it. Pelosi is saying that it is an AstroTurf movement, and that people had swastikas.
Read these two posts on Michelle Malkin’s board. Here, and here.
I am just waiting for the day that the truth does come out. Good work, Michelle! I have suspected Acorn ever since the election. They need to be brought down. The thing that bothers me is Obama’s campaign contributions and his relationship with Acorn and Project Vote.
Remember the stories about dead people recieving stimulus checks a few weeks ago? How did they get them? It is awful strange to me that I don’t remember dead people getting checks when they got a stimulus check from President Bush. Do any of you remember that? Did you hear that dead people got checks?
The following is Acorn’s Preamble:
Preamble
We stand for a People’s Platform, as old as our country, and as young as our dreams. We come before our nation, not to petition with hat in hand, but to rise as one people and demand.
We have waited and watched. We have hoped and helped. We have sweated and suffered. We have often believed. We have frequently followed.
But we have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor. Our patience has been abused; our experience misused. Our silence has been seen as support. Our struggle has been ignored.
Enough is enough. We will wait no longer for the crumbs at America’s door. We will not be meek, but mighty. We will not starve on past promises, but feast on future dreams.
We are an uncommon people. We are the majority, forged from all minorities. We are the masses of many, not the forces of few. We will continue our fight until the American way is just one way, until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom.
This is not a simple vision, but a detailed plan.
Our plan is to build an American reality from the American rhetoric, to deliver a piece of the present and the fruits of the future to every man, to every woman, to every family.
We demand our birthright: the chance to be rich, the right to be free.
Our riches shall be the blooming of our communities, the bounty of a sure livelihood, the beauty of homes for our families with sickness driven from the door, the benefit of our taxes rather than their burden, and the best of our energy, land, and natural resources for all people.
Our freedom is the force of democracy, not the farce of federal fat and personal profit. In our freedom, only the people shall rule. Corporations shall have their role; producing jobs, providing products, paying taxes. No more, no less. They shall obey our wishes, respond to our needs, serve our communities. Our country shall be the citizens’ wealth and our wealth shall build our country.
Government shall have its role: public servant to our good, fast follower to our sure steps. No more, no less. Our government shall shout with the public voice and no longer to a private whisper. In our government, the common concerns shall be the collective cause.
We represent a people’s platform, not a politician’s promise.
We demand the changes outlined in our platform and plan. We will work to win. We will have our birthright. We will live in richness and freedom. We will live in one country as one people.
Are Obama’s chickens coming home to roost?
How about a grass-roots protest against Acorn, and us having to pay taxes on stuff we don’t agree with. Did you see where the guy that played Coach told Glenn Beck he didn’t want to pay his taxes?
He is right about that. Newsmax.com has a good article about this.
I heard on Fox News, that she is now trying to apologize to the CIA, and is now blaming the Bush administration. The more that she talks, it seems the more trouble she gets herself into.
I got an email from Dick Armey, chairman of Freedom Works.
Help us Stop the National Energy Tax! With the economy on shaky ground, you would think your elected officials in Washington, D.C. would try and find ways to ease the tax burden on hardworking Americans. Unfortunately, the powers that be on the far Left have other ideas. President Obama is actively working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appease the radical environmentalists by imposing a “cap and trade” scheme to combat supposedly man-made climate change. But this effort to curb carbon-based emissions would not only be ineffective, it would cost all of us dearly every time we flip on a light switch or fill up our gas tank. Take Action! As the President admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Well, at least he was being upfront about the costs, unlike former Vice President Al Gore, who refused to answer questions about the total costs of implementing a cap and trade program. But Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) rightly pointed out recently, “cap and trade is a tax, and it’s a great big one.” Estimates are that this national energy tax would cost the average American family $3900 per year! Take Action Now to send a letter to your Representative and Senators, asking them to vote NO on any cap and trade scheme that comes ground, you would think your elected officials in Washington, D.C. would try and find ways to ease the tax burden on hardworking Americans. Unfortunately, the powers that be on the far Left have other ideas. President Obama is actively working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appease the radical environmentalists by imposing a “cap and trade” scheme to combat supposedly man-made climate change. But this effort to curb carbon-based emissions would not only be ineffective, it would cost all of us dearly every time we flip on a light switch or fill up our gas tank. Take Action! As the President admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Well, at least he was being upfront about the costs, unlike former Vice President Al Gore, who refused to answer questions about the total costs of implementing a cap and trade program. But Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) rightly pointed out recently, “cap and trade is a tax, and it’s a great big one.” Estimates are that this national energy tax would cost the average American family $3900 per year! Take Action Now to send a letter to your Representative and Senators, asking them to vote NO on any cap and trade scheme that comes before them in Congress. We have heard encouraging statements from both Democrats and Republicans on this issue who are concerned about the billions of dollars in new taxes and job losses that will result from a cap and trade scheme. We need to focus on encouraging those Members of Congress that are opposed to cap and trade to stand their ground. Together, we can work to defeat this terrible idea that will harm our economy at a time of real vulnerability. Sincerely, Dick Armey, Chairman. FreedomWorks.org P.S. – Check out FreedomWorks’ Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Cap and Trade for more in-depth information about this proposed energy tax and why it must be stopped! This e-mail is a FreedomWorks action alert. You are receiving this message because you have opted in to receive email updates.
The top Republican on the House intelligence committee, Michigan’s Pete Hoekstra, has asked the director of national intelligence’s ombudsman to investigate the Homeland Security report for “unsubstantiated conclusions and political bias.”
The senior Democrat of the House committee with oversight of the department said the report raises privacy and civil liberty issues. “This report appears to have blurred the line between violent belief, which is constitutionally protected, and violent action, which is not,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote in a letter to Napolitano.
The department’s definition of left-wing extremism in the March 26 report includes a reference to violence, stating these groups that embrace anticapitalist, communist or socialist beliefs seek “to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes.”
