[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I do not see that payday loans or credit cards are any different than loan sharks minus the physical intimation. Should we regulate them? Are we our brothers keeper? I see them as predatory and I would mind seeing them out of business. The stores are an eye sore to any community.

[MarkL]

I do not see that payday loans or credit cards are any different than loan sharks minus the physical intimation. Should we regulate them? Are we our brothers keeper? I see them as predatory and I would mind seeing them out of business. The stores are an eye sore to any community.

But there's a market for them... In a solid, middle class neighborhood of Overland Park, KS (near 75th & Metcalf) there are 4 different payday loan offices within 4 blocks of each other. This is a fairly high-rent area. If there wasn't business for them, they wouldn't be there.

Mark