On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You certainly have a stereotyped opinion of the protesters. > > > Isn't this really about have vs have-nots? I'm viewing the protesters in > exactly the way they have communicated their beliefs and protests to me. I > am unlikely to go down to a protest site and interview them to get to know > them. > So you admit that your entire opinion of them comes from the media? Not a very balanced view. > > The few that I know personally certainly have money in the bank, also > almost all of them > > are moving it to credit unions. I know my bank would certainly notice if > I > > moved my money - especially my retirement account. > > Good for them, good for you. So move the account. > I'm not likely to do so I bank with Wells Fargo, where my partner has had an account since 1964. He is unwilling to change that, and I am unwilling to spend the time necessary to convince him otherwise. Frankly, I like the folks at our local branch, and while Wells Corporate is not a saint by any means, they certainly aren't the worse. There are banks and other corporations I won't do business with - BoA, Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, Shell Oil. AIG but those decisions have more to do with my personal opinions about the actions of those companies than any desire to punish them for the financial meltdown. I know exactly where that sin lies, and while some of the executives in these companies may have been culpable, they certainly are the puppet masters. > > > > I think the focus has been on the huge investment firms more than the > > banks. Some people are only now realizing how interconnected the banks > and > > the investment firms are. > > "Focused" is not a word I would associate with what I have seen from this > protest movement. > Or at least not what the media has shown you of this movement. Snack for line monster Snack for line monster Snack for line monster Snack for line monster Snack for line monster Snack for line monster ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
