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Australia shows the devastating power that modern banks have over people’s lives
American Thinker ^ | 3 Apr, 2023 | Nodrog

Posted on 04/03/2023 10:48:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We tend to think of banks as places that store our money, give us interest on that money, and make loans. In the 21st century, though, they can do so much more.

Most Americans cling to the old-fashioned notion that a bank honorably holds their money and pays interest on that money, with the interest coming from the fact that the bank loans that same money to others for an even higher interest rate. We all imagine Jimmy Stewart explaining how banks work to his Bedford Falls neighbors in It’s a Wonderful Life. That’s not true anymore and, Australia’s experience illustrates that, in the 21st century, banks have almost unlimited control over people’s lives.

My parents were loyal to Australia’s Commonwealth Bank way beyond what was logical. It took a lot of evidence from the bank’s own actions for them even to consider changing banks, and even then, it was emotionally painful for them. The reality is that banks have been appalling for a very long time, and their pathology has been progressing exponentially lately, as they no longer try to hide their craven intent.

SNIP

Banks block our accounts for any number of reasons. My favorite is because a government bureaucracy decides the accountholder transgressed. As we all know, in the world of bureaucracy, everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Getting access to the account again is an uphill battle. You must spend time and money proving that the money you earned and that you put into the bank for safekeeping is, in fact, your property. The costs associated with that proof are yours alone to keep you in your place—and the interest during that time is the bank’s bonus.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship

1 posted on 04/03/2023 10:48:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

With Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) there will be nowhere else to go.


2 posted on 04/03/2023 10:48:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just another step on the road to the Antichrist and the one world government.


3 posted on 04/03/2023 10:53:27 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hamilton was wrong and Jefferson was right to fear the banking establishment?


4 posted on 04/03/2023 10:56:26 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: MtnClimber

banks are the government’s secret police...


5 posted on 04/03/2023 11:03:14 AM PDT by wny
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To: MtnClimber

Get constitutional money.


6 posted on 04/03/2023 11:04:37 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: MtnClimber

Bank small and have multiple banking relationships, preferably with state chartered banks, preferably in two states or countries.

Keep husband and wife bank accounts separate.

I’ve had weird issues come up due to the extent of my international travel possibly malicious and this saved me.


7 posted on 04/03/2023 11:06:39 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yuppers...
My Mattress is Full!


8 posted on 04/03/2023 11:13:37 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: MtnClimber

George Bailey ran his family’s co-op savings and loan. not a for-profit run bank.

the town ‘bank’ (and the town) was ‘run’ by the evil Mr. Potter, the proxy for corrupt and greedy big money and ‘new deal,’ big gov’t in the story.


9 posted on 04/03/2023 11:21:20 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: dadfly

and actually i think it was called the Bailey Bros. Building and Loan.


10 posted on 04/03/2023 11:23:12 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: dadfly

Which makes the “Lost Ending” of It’s a Wonderful Life even more satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw89o0afb2A


11 posted on 04/03/2023 11:26:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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This same crap is happening right now in the US with the ChexSystem. It is a reporting system used by nearly 90% of US banks. You have a problem with ONE bank, you have the same problem with ALL of them. If your bank gets ticked and freezes your account, not only can you not get your money, but you cannot open a new account with ANY OTHER bank on the system.

My daughter had an account with a federal credit union in Arizona. Later she closed her account and opened another with Wells Fargo in Phoenix. The credit union did an audit a few months later and decided she owed them something like $40 from a loan she had paid off already. She had moved and they had no current contact information, so it went to the ChexSystem.

Wells Fargo saw the ChexSystem entry and immediately froze her account in Phoenix. Her automatic pay deposits kept going into WF, but nothing could be taken out. The bank told her she must go get it straightened out with the credit union before they would release her account.

She went to the Credit Union, which admitted it was their mistake, and got her account cleared with ChexSystem. Wells Fargo, however, was not satisfied. It took MONTHS before she could get them to release her account, even though the Credit Union said it was their mistake and she was all clear.

With this kind of hassle with systems now in place, I CANNOT IMAGINE what might happen with a centralized federal digital currency account if someone decides they don’t like something you may or may not do.


12 posted on 04/03/2023 11:28:24 AM PDT by Gideon300
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Only because we have and are letting it happen. No one to blame but ourselves for any of this.


13 posted on 04/03/2023 11:38:14 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: MtnClimber

Lets see, Wells Fargo gets caught opening up accounts in customer’s names. Basically, identity theft.

DOJ prosecutes, bank pays a $3billion fine(IIRC) which goes to the Feds I’m thinking. No one charged with the crimes that were committed.

And I’m sure WF just raised some fees to pay the fine or recoup the fine, so their victims paid the fine for the crimes committed on them.


14 posted on 04/03/2023 11:45:37 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: dfwgator

i’d forgot that Shatner hosted that show. he looked so 80’s.


15 posted on 04/03/2023 11:45:40 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: qaz123

That is the way things happen now in the USSA. The BIG thief does not like the little thieves infringing on their territory.


16 posted on 04/03/2023 12:11:46 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

One of the solutions is COMPETITION. If you don’t like what Commonwealth Bank is doing move to anothr that will treat you better.

Unfortunately, last I checked, Australia only has four major banks and they’re all similar. It’s as if these 4 big ones are forming a mutual cartel.

The four are: COMMONWEALTH BANK, ANZ, WESTPAC and NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK.

They’re considered too big to fail. The little ones are NOT.


17 posted on 04/04/2023 6:37:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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