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   omQ R said, 3 months ago

   I have no cc debt but I used to be what is locally called a “card-tart” or a “rates-tart”. I managed to make money from the creditcard companies since they were too busy entraping new prey in the goodtimes to close their loopholes (0% balance transfers etc). However, with the credit crunch, they’re finally getting even more wiley and tighter that it is no longer worthwhile to cardtart as savings rates are now too low and cc terms too sharp. If people were already being caught out back in the goodtimes, I can just imagine how many are being caught out now especially if the public have resorted evermore to creditcards to finance their shortfalls.
   Read those changes in terms & conditions that are coming round through the post very, very carefully!

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   senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

   There were laws in each state, until they let them move to a state that didn’t have any.
   They want to do the same with health insurance. They want to go across state lines. Like the credit cards did.The credit cards moved to Nebraska where they could charge any rate they wanted to, and Nebraska, being hard up, wanted their business. Now health insurance companies want to go across state lines away from state regulations, to a state that has none.

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   ynnek58 said, 3 months ago

   It don’t pay to charge. Keep the balance zero – That will show them! Still you got to wonder about a) folks that rack up that debt without the means to pay it down, and b) the chumps running the CC companies that let them. They’re both idiots.

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   believecommonsense said, 3 months ago

   i think this is a rerun, no?

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   Corosive Frog said, 3 months ago

   Some credit cards policies remind me of these old folk tales where somebody sells their soul to the devil by mistake.

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   Gladius said, 3 months ago

   I don’t recall seeing this one before believe. There was a similar toon going on about the consumer protection panel that got a lot of cc comments a while back.

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   rlsaxion said, 3 months ago

   I don’t recall folk tales where someone sales their soul to the devil by “mistake”, they are always given a choice. Choose wisely, and buy what you can afford, or live with the consequences.

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   senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

   I sold my soul to the devil a long time ago, when you could get a good price for one. I got endless minutes of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. back when sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll was really good, Oh, and motorcycles. You’ll see me Jet skiing in the lake of fire, suckers !

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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   It was Reagan and the crew who changed the regulations, not the laws, to allow banking, S &Ls, and credit card companies to run rampant an uncontrolled. The are essentially all based (incorporated) in Delaware, where the state doesn’t regulate them either. Paying them off every month is the “smart” thing to do, but it actually damages your “credit rating”

   At the same time on a positive note: our company called yesterday while my wife was on line buying plane tickets. They called to make sure it was a legitimate charge activity, and to make sure it wasn’t fraud folks. So despite the contract obfuscations and rates, they are alerted to potential fraud/theft.

   Although it is a little spooky having a corporation with more power than the government to follow our activities— which is exactly what the “no health reform” people are actually screaming for. I think I still trust government more than corporate America–Hello ENron, AIG, Blue Cross, et al.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 3 months ago

    Thanks dtroutma, I’m glad someone is aware of things. The only thing health care wants now, is to be able to cross state lines, so they can offer us “better rates than our state does”.and I’m afraid they’ll get away with it , if we dont start telling people why they want to do that for us, more like “to us”.

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    believecommonsense said, 3 months ago

    Eureka! I found it. This toon ran on May 19 2009.
    (the noise you hear is me doing a little victory jig)

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    ynnek58 said, 3 months ago

    So one of the FEW things congress is supposed to do, which is regulate interstate commerce, they don’t do, and tons of stuff they aren’t authorized to do they get right after… hmmm I wonder if there is some money involved… duh

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    meowdam said, 3 months ago

    The vast majority of USA C.C. debt is owned by the House of Saud or the Sultan of Brunei ,
    The plan is :
    sell them the oil ,to make into gas, they buy gas with the C.C , charge them interest , repeat 30 million times a day . Create a phony and disproportionately influential credit reporting system to tighten our grasp.
    Perpetuate Sultanates and repressive societies , use excess to purchase influence to further enable our little enterprise.
    To paraphrase ” What riches hath not this myth of credit rating brought us ?

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    omQ R said, 3 months ago

    Satipera: Re cuckoo. Great analogy! May I swipe it?

    A repeat? Pffft.
    I’ve also noticed that the “Views” cartoons are also often placed from the wrong viewpoints geographically. Often African/Middle-Eastern cartoonists commenting on something European or Northern American are depicted in the Views Latin section or vice versa. Is Geography a problem at Gocomics?

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    omQ R said, 3 months ago

    Cheers!