Posted on 11/02/2009 7:31:28 PM PST by blam
Are Bank Safe Deposit Boxes Safe? No
Commodities / Gold & Silver 2009
Nov 02, 2009 - 06:02 PM
By: David_Vaughn
Got a lot of email when I suggested that safe deposit boxes are not safe from bank or government intrusion.
In most minds the “safe deposit box” is the “holy grail.” Our comfort will always be OK as long as our safe deposit box remains safe from others ill intent.
Noticed the last few years how the Swiss Banks are no longer confidential places for one to store anything of value? The US government has applied pressure on Switzerland to make available Swiss bank records at any time requested by the US Government.
And in light of these facts you have the foolishness to believe your humble safe deposit box at the local corner bank is safe? Give me a break. Why is it that US citizens always seem to be behind the times when assimilating current information?
Well, I can understand this if the only news one watches is Brian Williams or Katie Couric. I feel informed already. Want to hear a sample of Ms. Courics world wide exposing articles seen and heard across the world?
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Interesting....BofA nearly auctioned off OUR Bank Deposit contents (not a whole lot was in it compared to some)....they made a move of boxes (within the bank)...and we had a change of our home address (I also had a business account there)and said they had notified us....and we were living out of the country....caught it in time, however....but, now will not use them.
My fear is that Obama & Congress will accelerate this, requiring an affirmative "opt-in" notification in order to hold onto your deposits for more than 72 hours.
Cheers!
Safe deposit boxes haven’t been safe for years now. Government can crack into them anytime they want, pretty much. expect it more as we end up with fewer and fewer banks.
It won’t be limited to safe deposit boxes. Homes, businesses, farms and anything else they want will be on the list.
Get a good, fire-proof, home safe. Hard to trust anyone other than yourself and your family these days. I hate that I have to type that and I miss the U.S. that I knew as a younger person.
Yes, its sad that we are adapting to our corrupt, thuggish, out of control government, it's it?
It's like everyone is re-arranging the deck chairs waiting for someone to step up and say what we're going to do to STOP it.
I have been trying to do something about it for years ... by not voting for the corrupt, ignorant and arrogant, even if they do have an (R) following their name. For that, I’ve been called just about every name in the book around here. Now I guess it’s a little more fashionable to buck the system.
If you need a playbook you don't belong in the game.
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/history-lesson/2008/12/05/depression-diary-part-4?page=full
Depression Diary, Part 4
This is the fourth installment. For more, click on the first, second, and third parts.
August 22, 1931. There is a quiet but steady stream of depositors at every bank in Youngstown this morning, withdrawing their funds. The closing of banks in Toledo and Warren received much publicity and distrust of banks is growing like a cancer. It is a movement which feeds on itself and is hard to stop.
Even the strongest banks can’t keep this up long. They do not have enough cash to pay everybody. Much of their funds are invested in railroad bonds and other securities which were once considered gilt-edged but are now selling below par so that the bank cannot afford to liquidate. Investments like mortgages are frozen tight. There is clearly something wrong with our banking system which permits such a situation to come about. It is hard to rent a safety box today because there has been such a demand by hoarders.
I don’t need a playbook..what I meant was that the process is slow and I’m not very confident about the election process anymore because of rampant voter fraud.
Yes, we have done everything we can, time to fire most of them or stop funding the whole rotten lot.
flr
bump
A friend of mine thinks his cash is safe there. He has around 100,000. in there. I keep telling him to get it the hell out, he thinks they can’t touch it. I’m sending him this post in an email. Let’s see if he takes it out.
These banks would be a storehouse for money, and would charge a fee for storage.
The banks would not practice fractional reserve banking, and would not use their deposits to indebt others.
That's the only hope that our national economy has of surviving.
bttt
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