[2ndDivisionVet]

Don't hold your breath, Erin.

[the invisib1e hand]

The way to ruin free enterprise it to throw federal money at it — for that makes it “unfree.”

[Venturer]

Where is this bank I have some money to deposit with them.

[jessduntno]

“A message to our corrupt politicians: Leave our money alone. Leave our businesses alone. Stop punishing success. Let capitalism work.”

TEA PARTY, ERIN????

Also from Erin;

http://nrv.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/16/is_legal_action_possible_to_stop_the_stimulus_package.thtml

[redhead]

On a smaller scale, when hubby and I lived in Valdez, we had a totally-cash outlook. We paid cash for everything. If it was a big-ticket item like furniture or a car, we saved for it. We had no checking account. BUT...

When we went to apply for one of those new-fangled credit card things from our bank, which we'd used for years, we couldn't get one. We had "no credit history." LOL! Talk about being punished for doing something right...

[KarlInOhio]

In comparison to others in the lending business, EBS only made an average of 28 cents in loans per dollar deposited over the last five years while its banking competitors had a 90% average loan to deposit ratio, according to Fox News reports.

So they either keep 72 cents of every deposit dollar hidden in the vault or they get almost 0% in treasury bills. I have a hard time seeing how they can cover their savings interest much less office expenses and salaries at that low of ratio unless they pay essentially nothing on savings and CDs while charging a lot more than most banks for interest on loans.

[geologist]

We are living in a crazy upside down world.

People are going about their business, as if it was business as usual.

Confusing.

[wmfights]

I wonder if I could get a list of banks that followed these practices in my area so I could put money in them.

[Billthedrill]

Self-ping so I can include this little gem in the Atlas Shrugged threads. This is getting scary. If the banker's name turns out to be Mulligan I'm heading for the hills screaming. ;-)

[Billthedrill]

A ping for you as well. Chapter 10, I think.

[2harddrive]

Mazel Tov!

[Soothesayer]

Everyone should invest in a plot of land and get ready to live like a third-world peasant.

[mainestategop]

This proves that the CRA is responsible for the reccession. This bank did not want to be politically correct and give freebies to bums who refused to pay it back and became probably the only bank that did not get losses. So of course the BIG Government would get all nitpicky over this.

[mainestategop]

BOOK MARK FOR LATER REVIEW!

[mainestategop]

AND ON A SIDE NOTE A BUMP!