Courtesy of the SlealthFlation [2] Blog:
" Miss, I would like to open a passbook savings account please. Teller responds; I haven't opened up one of those for a client in ages, I'm not even sure if we still offer them anymore sir. Let me check with the head teller, I'll be right back with you. "
The fact that the average decent working American is no longer able to take his hard earned income to a local retail bank, so as to earn 5% nominal interest in a traditional, conservative and secure savings account is an abomination of epic proportion. What ever happened to the fundamentally intrinsic time value of money?
To paraphrase Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, from his magnificent rousing speech at the Baird Academy auditorium; We should take a flame thrower to the avaricious parasitical financial sector...............
