I've considered blogging on this topic for several months. Each time I put fingers to keyboard, I felt that my words failed to express my utter disgust for the big banks in this country: on the professional side, it's the mess known as Short Sales and Loan Modifications...on the personal side, it's having my personal and business credit card interest rates raised when I haven't missed a payment or been late.
Like many, I've cursed the heavens because I felt helpless to do anything. Recently, I discovered that I do have some power and some control. The power is pure genius in its simplicity and impact. Move Your Money from the giant financial beasts that devour your dignity and your deposits like some raging monster destroying Tokyo. Forget this notion of "too big to fail"! Put the giant monsters on a diet. Move Your Money from them to your local credit union or community bank.
But wait a minute! What about the convenience of their nationwide ATM machines? If I go to a smaller bank that doesn't have that national ATM chain, I'll be hit with withdrawal fees. That's true! And that is part of their master-plan to keep us all under their thumbs so they can bleed us dry with all sorts of new fees. Here is my answer to that: Move Your Money to a community bank or credit union and when you need some quick cash from an ATM take your new ATM card into a nearby store or gas station and buy some gum or beef jerky and then get cash back. Sure, there will be some inconveniences, but imagine how you'll feel knowing that the financial beasts are not picking your pockets any more.
It's time to give the big financial beasts a shot across the bow of their greed and arrogance. It's time to pull our wallets from between their gluttonous and insolent fangs. It's time to make them "lean enough to fail" . The American people pulled their butts back from disaster once...never again. Do I sound mad and angry? Well, I am. Remember the great scene from the movie "Network" when he raises the window and screams out into the world, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".
The people in this country need to open their windows and tell their neighbors and their friends to "move your money". We all should be mad as hell at the giant banks for their greed and arrogance and we should be mad at ourselves for feeling helpless to do anything about it as we watch more and more fees being attached to our credit cards, checking accounts and savings accounts. Still not convinced? Go to www.MoveYourMoney.info for more informatin.
