Showdown in Chicago, Meeting the bankers head on as they have their annual Bankers Meeting.

Showdown in Chicago is an attempt by the working blue collar class to fight wall street and demand that bailout money that was given to the banks be redistributed to the middle class who are struggling to stay in their homes.

The banking institution is meeting this week in Chicago and protestors from all over the country have come to Chicago to greet them as the bankers meet at various financial institutions that are located in Chicago.

Twitter messages and blog articles are trickling in about the protest. One twitter message that I found interesting stated, where are the tea party protestors?

There really is a divide between the factions that are protesting the banks. Unfortunately, the romanticism of a Barack Obama presidency lured many to support Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton even though Hillary Clinton was really much more qualified and would have had the benefit of a husband who had previously been president to consult with when necessary.

I truly believe that a Hillary Clinton presidency would have prevented the massive foreclosures that are going on. Additionally, the tea party protestors and the community activist forces protesting in Chicago might have found themselves having more common ground than they currently do.

On one side of the divide are the union employees and community activists that frankly, seem to think the only ones being oppressed are african americans and latinos. On the other side are the tea party protestors, who probably skew more white than any other race.

Somehow, the issue of race has polarized groups that should be unified against the banks, into either ignoring each other, or feeling threatened by each other. The root cause may have occurred because Barack Obama did several things in the 2008 democratic primary that may have ultimately polarized his party rather than unify it.

Please Download the Chase Bank Protest Protest Flyer for FREE, and then all that needs to be done is just give a few copies out, it is really that simple.

Barack Obama supports a Consumer Protection Agency, Chambers of Commerce do not.

I'm kind of impressed that Barack Obama is supporting a Consumer Protection Agency. I mean we already have one, but apparently this one will have teeth. I wonder if the Agency will be able to stop the flow of corporations that set up shop elsewhere.

There is a plethora of areas where such a Consumer Protection Agency could do a lot of good. For example, why do 99% of all side by side refrigerator freezers have an ice dispensing unit built into the door? To sell more SODA, that's why. If a consumer protection agency could get the refrigerator industry to have a more balanced scheme where they maybe offer 10% non dispensing side by side refrigerator freezers, it would have paid for itself.

It's called CHOICE. Right now, there is virtually no choice between buying a side by side refrigerator freezer with an ice dispenser built in, versus one that does not have an ice dispensing unit.

Chilled drinks in general are not good for you. There is a theory that if you eat meat and also consume cold drinks at the same time, that the cold drink may actually cause the undigested animal fat to condense and harden in your stomach before it is digested. yech.

How about selling more outlet strips that actually have an on off switch for each individual outlet so you are not sending electricity to a device that is not even turned on but the power supply nonetheless continues to suck electricity? Wouldn't that help save energy since small electronic appliances now account for 15% of our energy consumption and they use as much as 80% of their normal energy requirements even when in the off mode, because the power supply is still being fed power by the power strips that don't have individual on/off buttons.

We need a consumer protection agency with teeth, so I am for such a creation.

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Daily-Protest Breaking News, CHASE BANK LIES ON NATIONAL TELEVISION about their Opt Out Policy.

Well, here is the original material from MSNBC. 

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The Video above does not scale down in size far enough for me to post the entire image, however the audio is intact and you can hear the claim made that Chase offers opt out options to all of their clients even though they haven't done that with 400,000 of their best paying customers.

I can personally attest that less than one month ago Chase Bank refused to allow me to opt out after they increased the monthly minimum payment. Near the end of the youtube video below, Chase claims they allow customers to opt out. This is called a bold faced lie on national television.

One more thing. If we call the current monthly minimum payment one is making as making 100% of the required payment, than Chase actually jacked up the monthly minimum payment FROM 100% TO 250%, this is another way of explaining the increase rather than simply saying it was a 150% increase, which makes it sound like it was less than doubling the increase.

ORIGINAL YOUTUBE VIDEO BELOW HAS BEEN REMOVED WAS REMOVED, NOW WE ARE AT THE MERCY OF MSNBC AND HOWEVER LONG THEY CARE TO OFFER THE CLIP. Wow.

Stephen Cutler, is Cutler the Smoking Gun behind Chase Bank's Recent Hostile Credit Card Actions Against their most Trustworthy Customers?

There is some very interesting information at Change in Terms.com about Stephen Cutler.

Did you know that back in 2001 Stephen Cutler was an SEC enforcer and fined Chase Bank 1 million dollars for not being able to document where 46 billion dollars of money was! Eight years later and Mr. Cutler is now chief legal counsel for CHASE! Cutler's one million dollar fine against Chase's 46 billion dollars of missing money is the equivalent to fining somebody 1,000 dollars for not being able to account for 46 million dollars in missing funds!

Mr. Cutler used to work for the SEC, now Cutler is chief counsel for Chase Bank. Does anybody know anymore about this Stephen Cutler? Wasn't the SEC the organization that ignored the Bernie Madoff warnings for several years. Is Mr. Cutler the "cleaner", or the "terminator", doing all the dirty work for everybody else?

I found this comment on skeptical Texas CPA, Who is Stephen Cutler? "In his speech, SC states, "the subjects of our enforcement actions in the past two years include ... J.P. Morgan/Chase". I kid you not. Then SC joins JPM about 25 months later. One can question how vigorous the SEC's actions are against its staff's prospective employers. Wait, didn't we see something in the press in the past two years that might bear on which enforcement actions the SEC takes on? Didn't Gary Aguirre (GA) allege the SEC fired him on 1 September 2005, about five months after SC left, because GA wanted to depose MS's CEO, John Mack, in connection with an insider trading investigation of hedge fund Pequot Capital? Didn't Charles Grassley conduct Congressional hearings about this? Was SC ignorant of GA's allegations while he SC was at the SEC? "On 5 October 2006, the SEC recommended no action be taken against Mack",v Note SC joins JPM 68 days later. Neat. Did JPM reward SC for his work for MS at the SEC? SC couldn't join MS, so Wall Street found a nice sinecure for SC at JPM. Is that what happened? Ladies and gentlemen of the blogosphere, you have heard the evidence, now render your verdict."

-Skeptical Texas CPA

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It would seem to me that anybody who is friends with Stephen Cutler needs to be investigated.

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