Why are there all these protests over the petty bickering by both parties in Washington?
While they act like children on a school playground, our pockets are being picked every day.
No where is a whimper heard as everyone pays unnecessary fees that are tacked on daily to our various accounts.
It used to be that banks were so happy to have you as a customer, that they even gave away promotional items. The perks disappeared and service charges reared their ugly head with a one page charge sheet. Within a few years that list exploded into a booklet with a charge for every little thing. Talk to a teller: a charge. Don't talk to a teller:a charge. Over activity charges, under activity charges. New ones are dreamed up on a daily basis.
The utility companies decided they wanted part of the action. Under the guise of clarifying your bill, they tacked on charges by making up fancy names for charges and keeping them low enough so no one questioned them.
There are fees for anything and everything.
Even the fancy restaurants, with there separate prices for the entree, vegetable, and other sides; got into the action. Anyway to charge more and yet still they do not receive complaints.
Ah good citizens, put on the bandanas, light your torches, bring forth the tar and feathers and let us storm the board rooms that are sticking us with these fees. Show them you are no longer going to take it. It may hurt a bit to not use your credit card, or stop watching cable. However, it has to start somewhere. It is time to close your wallet and open your mouth.
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I think it'll take another good (great?) depression for major change to happen. Nothing like a country full of starving people with nothing left to lose to reset a nation's priorities. Not that I want to see it happen, but just thinking out loud...
The sad part is that we are on a run away train heading for a great economic disaster. Not only are a lot of people heavily in debt, but worst of all the country is in greater debt to foreign countries, one of whom is China.
If any of these countries decided to dump all those bonds, the economy would come tumbling down like a house of cards.
I used to hate it when my parents made me shell peas (you can get 'em cheap at the store! I'd say...) but it may, in fact, be time to get the tiller out and plant a garden again. Nothing like having food when the banks go bust.
That's what was so nice about the trip to Lithuania. Lots of gardens everywhere. People from the city would go out into the country side and have beautiful gardens and small orchards. People took great pride in them.
The one thing I try to get across, is whether a good or bad memory, we are depriving each generation of them.
I too hated when my parents made me help them can fruits, make sausage and such. Now I regret that I don't have the knowledge to do these things. Those little tricks they used to make it tastier are gone forever.
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