Bank of America anti 2nd Amendment

[dawgfishboy]

Thanks for posting that chart. We have been Bank of America customers for about a hundred years.

Me too. I think it was called NCNB?

[canvasbck]

I cannot for the life of me understand why otherwise sensible people insist on doing business with the huge banks, unless of course, they have a regular need to borrow $500 million or so. For everyone else, the big banks are a bad deal.

They are hard to deal with, don't know you from Adam, their fees are exorbitant, inflexible and it is impossible to get a branch manager on the telephone. Of course, some folks don't minding holding while waiting for some gun snapping barely literate person gets on the phone from a phone bank in Pacoima or someplace, Calcutta, maybe.

I can't type out out all the problems I have encountered on behalf of folks dealing with one of the huge banks.

Why not ride that stage coach right out of town and put your business with a local community bank or credit union, be a big fish in a small pond, or at least not a tiny one in an ocean.

Banks like USAA or Charles Schwab have ZERO service charges that I have encountered, they reimburse you for any ATM charges you incur monthly, and the service has been impeccable, for me anyway.

I bet there is at least one small financial institution in your area that would love to have you as a customer, treat you like another human being, love to have you as a customer.

Big banks are bad for you, and your money.

The biggest problem for us Coastal dwellers with local banks is that when the power is out for a week after a hurricane, you have no access to any of your finds. For a week after Ike, most of my coworkers were unable to withdraw funds, even from ATM's outside of the area, because their Credit Union's computers were down. I was already a Wells Fargo customer and had no problems accessing my accounts throughout the event. I even floated some loans to friends who ran out of cash until the Credit Union had their power restored.

I have yet to see a Wells branch with a 30.06 posted. If that changes, so will my stance on Wells Fargo.