Re: Bank of America buys Countrywide

I fell into hate with Bank of America years ago... I would not bank with that bank for love nor money.

Those were my exact sentiments 3 years ago when I had gotten down to getting serious about unplugging. At that time, among the countless ways I was knowingly plugged was via one very typical way; with 4 separate credit card accounts. These were not merchant-specific cards that gets one a few extra trinkets when checking out of Sams, Sears, the coffee club or other smaller-time fronts of racketeering, these were hard core big-time credit card accounts. Getting out of debt was tops among the unplugging goals and therefore an integral plan of phase one. Phase two included getting rid of the kinds of encumberances that embodied the most routine device for getting into debt in the first place; the one most of us have been trained to keep near and dear to our hearts - at least the the heart near our wallet .... to never leave home without. At that time the plan was to get rid of all but one in the short term, and eventually get rid of that lone one over the logner term. The interim process of elimination was not as easy nor straightforward as it had seemed in theory. The list included BoA as well as Capital One. At the end of the banking-on-blood & thin-air day, nobody and nothing outshysters a banking house overtly tied to a Rockefeller, but the latter is no slouch in this respect and not all that far below in the pecking order of inbred crooks for hire. The quality and tenor of their ongoing commercial advertising campaign of recent years is ample evidence of this. I must have spent a good couple weeks trying to decide which one of these to hang onto in the short term just in case it could serve a need in the unexpected event of dire emergency. In the end, I opted to hang on to that card that came into my wallet by way of those once fine folks who were once among my favorite seed purveyors - Burpee. Providian-Chase, BoA and Captial One were cut and sent packing. Some of you may appreciate how richly I enjoyed those particular telephone conversations... drinking up every moment of them, especially when the patter got to the latter stages " are you SURE there is nothing else we can do to keep your business? You are after all a valued customer of ours and quite frankly, we're dismayed that you are wanting to close your account with us".... yada yada yada, that kind of garbage. Yes, that was a brief moment of total enjoyment for me. I loved and lapped up every moment of it.

Before barely one month had passed, there came to me by way of mail a letter officially informing that BoA was in the process of completing the manuevers to purchase the banking house - the one that behind the scenes had been attached to the seed company who's logo appeared prominently on the the front scenes of the lone credit card in my wallet :(  The notice went on to say that this acquisition process was for all intents & purposed completed as such, save for the process of awaiting the government's decision on whether it approved of this maneuver or not.... as if there was ever any genuine mystery to how that was going to turn out.