Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
Again you mixed up everything. First, banks pay me percent for storing my money. Then, they don't force me into loaning money, if I ever decide to do so, that will be completely my choice. Can't see a single reason why the banks should be "stopped". Then, there you go on "the evil corporations" again. Leave them alone, please. All the best humanity has for now has been made by the corporations. Basically everything. See, each small business that does not "oppress people", if it's successful, is going to turn into a large corporation sooner or later. Remember how Microsoft or Apple started, just for instance.

Then, I personally don't want that lower consumption thing on me. I want to buy what I want to buy, right at the moment when I want that, and so on. On the other hand, if I don't, no ads are going to change my mind. As well as no ads are going to persuade me I should refrain from buying what I want for some strange unobvious reasons like I'm supporting "greedy corporations" or something. I want to live in the world where I can afford everything I can ever think of, and my budget is the only limit factor.

You did leave the UK after all huh? Sorry, I didn't know those virtual things had affected you so much... By the way, what wars exactly are you talking about?
Eric, I personally can see quite a few reasons why the powers that banks are given, in the US especially but by dint of Hanna's words possibly abroad as well, should be clipped... Of course, I understand the Wells-Fargo/Pinkerton end of banking - that if the norm wasn't credit cards and checkings and savings accounts and direct-deposits, then burglars, bandits and thieves would be a bigger concern for you and I, the average citizen with personal holdings.

How it is, though, that hiring a bodyguard for your wealth became not only NORMAL but indeed a BYGONE CONCLUSION ACROSS THE WORLD, I don't really understand.. nay, I do understand how it happened, but I'm not a supporter of where it's gotten to.

Reason #1 why Banks' power (and the auxiliary groups, and their respective powers, granted to every financial market and substrate that they've hatched since coming into their own in the 1800s) should be clipped: Madoff.

Reason #2 why Banks' power should be clipped: A history of ridiculous feduciary greenlights between private Banks, the US Government and its many limbs, and the National Treasury (which, on that note, should be one pink piece of paper on the floor in an empty fort knox, reading: "I.O.U. - U.S.S. Grant").

Reason #3 why Banks' power should be clipped: the long explanation given here (The Raw Story | Corrupt banking and the fake war on terror ), though I wouldn't recommend hardcore skeptics to NOT read this, just because the pursed aperture of a closed mind could make this a headache-causing read.

As an aside... thanks to everyone who's being civil in this discussion. As long as we proceed in that manner, we can learn a lot from each other and not have a need to harbor negative sentiments.