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Offline Freeper

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The Ballad of 41 cents
« on: November 05, 2011, 09:39:07 AM »
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SwampG8r   (1000+ posts)             Sat Nov-05-11 01:19 AM
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its move your money day and i am not gonna move a %$#* dime
   

 
you heard me right
i have never let a "bank" hold my money since my first "bank" account in which i had kept meticulous records including my copies of deposits and withdrawls and found a discrepency of $.41 in the banks favor
even when shown every piece of paper and totaling and adding and subtracting and coming to the same number i had they refused to give me my god damn 41 cents
it became a point of principle and i was ultimately given the choice of leaving by my own or being taken to county jail for trespassing.
this was in the 1970s when you could still be insistant of your rights without being seen as a civil threat
i took every penny except the 41 mother freaking cents they knew i was owed and went to my just formed local credit union
in those days you had to actually qualify for membership through work or some organization
i qualified so i joined
the lady who filled out forms with me credited me with an extra 41 cents
yeah thats right she made my initial deposit 41 cents more i dont know how it worked out at the end of the day but i never felt more love to another human than i did when she did that one simple thing
when i got married they set me up when i needed a car they helped me get a good one for a good price and never gave me any thing but help in making the loans
when i bought a house they were there again and did everything to make it easy and low cost
later they helped with my improvements and so many other things i cant even recall
in the first days you got checking and savings not much interest
when they invented plastic money there the credit union was again with a debit card set with visa to carry credit on the same account
so in the morning when you run to move that cash i wont move a sous
i will actually make a deposit and leave the crushing to you
i suggest BofA Chase anything in the Citigroup and do a little look at who these people own
kmart and pennys sears and so so many other tentacles
and tell em i told em so

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2245454

Yet they don't mind in the least when the government wastes our money on companies that will just go bust in 2 years, in fact they want to give even more to similar companies.  :banghead:


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I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 01:18:57 PM »
Has anyone heard of any banks going under today?
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2011, 01:29:20 PM »
reading the topic, i was expectng something about 41 cents of every dollar our guvmint spends is borrowed.

now i find out its just guy who lost half his paycheck. then a bouncy way to break even.
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2011, 01:55:53 PM »
Quote from: Rugnuts on November 05, 2011, 01:29:20 PM

now i find out its just guy who lost half his paycheck.

Ooh, nice.   :rotf:  H5
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2011, 02:27:19 PM »
Quote from: Carl on November 05, 2011, 01:18:57 PM
Has anyone heard of any banks going under today?


I didn't see any Wachovia branches when I was out earlier, so they probably brought them down to their knees, then Wells Fargo took them over.  :-)
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2011, 05:26:05 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on November 05, 2011, 02:27:19 PM
I didn't see any Wachovia branches when I was out earlier, so they probably brought them down to their knees, then Wells Fargo took them over.  :-)

I took everything I had in Wachovia out back in July....and Wachovia has disappeared... :rotf:

This is funny. I told them to sell "ALL" my mutual funds...and I got the check for it and put it in another bank....well....for 3 months now I've been getting a monthly report on my mutual funds or fund. Seems I still have some stock somewhere in the Wachovia/Wells Fargo system that is worth about $4.... :lmao:....I'm going to let it ride awhile just for meanness.... :-)
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2011, 05:31:33 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 05, 2011, 05:26:05 PM
I took everything I had in Wachovia out back in July....and Wachovia has disappeared... :rotf:

This is funny. I told them to sell "ALL" my mutual funds...and I got the check for it and put it in another bank....well....for 3 months now I've been getting a monthly report on my mutual funds or fund. Seems I still have some stock somewhere in the Wachovia/Wells Fargo system that is worth about $4.... :lmao:....I'm going to let it ride awhile just for meanness.... :-)

According to the SwampG8r primitive, $4 is approaching the realm of trust fund territory.  Better make sure you save that one back for a rainy day.  :-)
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2011, 07:55:03 PM »
Unfortunately I am all too familiar with thinking like that, my dear departed Dad had a few screws loose (As well as a couple of slipping belts and an out-of-balance flywheel) when it came to money...but then he was a child of the Depression, and had been parked in an orphanage for a couple of years because Grandma could only afford to feed one kid when Grandpa died very young, and as the youngest of the two boys in a traditional Irish family, that meant he was staying with the nuns.  Dad at least had a good reason for being nuts.
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Re: The Ballad of 41 cents
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2011, 12:59:58 PM »
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this was in the 1970s
in the first days you got checking and savings not much interest


Another DUmmy spinning a bouncy lie.

Credit unions were not allowed to offer checking accounts (actually "share drafts")
until the banking deregulation that helped spawn the global Reagan Boom.
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