Reply #12: Did anyone see the news the other night [View All]

[BonnieJW]

featuring a small local bank in Texas that started advertising on billboards that they did not take any TARP funds and they were still solvent? Thousands of people closed down their accounts at the "big" banks and opened accounts at this small bank. That's how you show the big guys. We don't give them any business. I bank at a local bank, but I believe it was bought by a big bank that received TARP funds. So far, nothing has happened, but as soon as the big name goes up, I pull out my $ and open an account at another local bank.

I use my debit card as credit since I get points for doing it, but I can see that it gives the bank the chance to charge merchants more on a credit transactions. That never bothered me before but it does not. I'm even thinking of taking out the cash from the bank ATM and using cash at the stores, thus denying the bank any fees. There are ways we can object and since corporations only know how to read this one symbol $$$, that's the only one you can use.