Super Awesome Dating

Side Note: This has nothing to do with dating, relationships, love, romance, or male or female preferences.

I know a dysfunctional relationship when I see one, particularly when it is staring me right in the face. This goes out to the millions and millions of you out their who are stuck in a long term abusive relationship.

You know who you are. Those of you staying in a relationship long after it’s turned bad. Sticking around despite the abuse. Even though it has gotten worse and worse over the years. Hanging on only because it seems easier than breaking up…because where else are you going to go?

Yep, I’m talking to all of you who do your banking at one of the gigantic “too big to fail” Wall Street banks. The big banks that brought our economy to the brink of disaster. Then had to be rescued with trillions of dollars of our tax payer money. Which then turned around and repaid us for the bailout by hiring lobyists to convince our leaders in Washington to kill financial reform.

The took our money, but cut back on lending. They took more money, and made more record profits, and paid the top guys record bonuses. They took even more money on top of that, and returned to the risky casino like behavior that lead to on of the worst financial crisis since the great depression.

With massive forclosues, high unemployment, and bankruptcys. They took our money but kept on doing what they were doing before. That is, the same risky profit driven behavior as before With all the greedy, abusive, ruthless practices still in place that have earned them untold billions of dollars a year after year.

Things like charging you outrageous fees for any and everything. Jacking up your interest rate to 30% on your credit card if you miss one payment. 30%, I dident know being a loan shark was legal. Other things like refusing to negotiate your mortgage after the housing buble they help create, BURST. These big Wall Street banks, deemed too big to fail by our Wall Street friendly leaders in Washington think they can get away with anything because they always have.

But heres the thing. You don’t have to put up with it anymore. You don’t have to stay in a loveless, abusive relationship with your big bank. It’s actually quite easy to get out, and into something much much better:

moveryourmoney.info sponsored by the Huff Post. It’s designed to convince you to move your money into smaller local community banks and credit unions that are more likley too see you as a person and not as simly an account number. Community banks also reinvest in the community where there located.

It is a pretty simple idea really, if enough people in one of the six, too big to fail banks: AKA

JP Morgan Chase

CITI Group

Wells Fargo

Bank Of America

Morgan Stanley

Goldman Sachs

Move their money into a community bank or credit union, then collectivly we the people will be taking a big step towards fixing our broken finanical system. Breaking up is easy and painless, and will send a powerful message to Wall Street and our leaders in Washington.

Face it, real change does not come from the top down. It starts from the bottom up. It starts with you the individual. Don’t expect it to come from Congress or the White House and certinly not the lobbyist firms hired by the too big to fail banks who’s collective goal is too keep their special interst a priority above the public interest. You must do it yourself. Like Gandi said, you must be the change you want to see, and moving your money is a great first small easy step.

This is not a left or right idea, liberal or conservative. It is a populism at its best and is for those people who have had enough, are not going to take it anymore and are ready to do something about it. So is it time for you to break up with your bankers? Should you just get the hell out? The best move is for you to make that consious decision on your own. Get the facts and make your choice. If you decide you want to move your money then check out how easy it is to end your long term abusive relationship and find true banking love:

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