Banks

Don't you just love them! Don't you wish you could live your life without them? Especially the HUGE ones. Like Chase. You're just a number, a very long one at that. And the worse off the economy, the more vicious they get. You could be making double or triple payments for years and all of a sudden, if you're a couple weeks late, they come after you like flies on honey. And there's nothing you can do about it. Except, of course, make your payments on time! It kind of discourages you from making bigger than the expected payment. All but the part about shaving a few dollars of interest off. So, we are prisoners. Not of the bank, but of our own need for their money. If we could just learn to live on what we have, we'd be much better off. I mean, you have to be their prisoner to own a home. At least most of us do. But we could drive the auto industry into obsolescence by driving cars we can afford without a loan. And would that be so bad? It might even create a desire for banks, the auto industry and maybe even health care to think about the obsurd prices they are charging. It might just be the best thing that could happen to our economy. What do you think?