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  • Hey people stop using credit now! Lets make the credit card companies thugs suffer with their pathetic late fee charges...like a crazy $35 late fee no matter what you balanced is, 25% apr interests. I think you guys know this I already just trying help hard working people and students

  • 2:35. Tall guy diggn his nuts and smiles.

  • I don't understand why people always complain about credit cards. I just pay cash whenever I can, have one credit card and pay bills on time. Two times the fucking assholes charged me for a fake charity. But I just called them and got the charged canceled.

  • Some America people should learn form chinese people depositing habit,we must not overdraft our credit card all the way which you cann't pay for when you lose your job suddenly.This will post a serious problem for this country's financial system.

  • This bill did nothing. As soon as it was signed I received a notice from my credit card company that they were raising the interest rate. I always paid my bill ontime and always sent 4-5 times more than the minimum they asked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • u ever use a check cashing place ? go there and try it once just for kicks and u will see what im saying here 125% APR is crazy, but its ok for them to do that how about H&R block for tax returns. i can go on and on. u want a BILL THAT WILL DO SOMETHING CAP APR and stop wasting all of are time

  • This law is a joke i work for a CC company and know first hand. All this bill will do is inform u of a pending increase in your APR and give u a way to pay your bill by phone for free in most cases. if u want to talk to a rep at one of these places yes u will still get charged. also current talk has moved to no late/Over the limit charge fee reversals. What we Need to fix this is a FIXED CAP on apr for example Prime +12% or something like that not the current Prime + the sky

  • Hey people .BUY GOLD ! It's the only thing that hasn't lost it's value.

  • I didn't think keeping my Sears card would be a problem, since the cardholder can fight back against them jacking APRs by boycotting their stores. Not so. After years of being a loyal customer they jacked me to 30%. Needless to say, I will never shop at Sears or Kmart again & now it will cost THEM.

    The boycott is the ace-in-the-hole for any dept. store cardholder who has been victimized by predatory practices. I only wish other non-dept store cards had such an Achilles heel.

  • it a shame I pay taxes to the feds and my money went to bailout the credit card company .now i'm paying again .

    With superlative credit the interest rate went up .

    Now WHO is gonna make sure this new law is abided by the credit card people?

    So far my company has not honored this new law, especially since I protested to the new rate hike.

    Do I have to pay for everybody elses debt?

    The card companys are dishonest and making a killing off of this.

  • What they do not mention is the Credit Bureau's That lower our CREDT RATING when they lower our CREDIT lines.

    I was never late and paid more than the minimum payment

    to Amex/Costco line was16,000. I paid $9000. Amex reduced line $7000. WE ARE A CATERING COMPANY

    & NEED CREDIT FOR LARGE PARTIES. I PAID $5000.

    MORE Amex lowered to $1000.! WAY to stand by small

    business AMEX! How many more ways can Corporations

    FAIL US. Discover did the same. IF economy gets better

    I WILL BOYCOTT also.

  • so the good people who pay on time must pay for all the bad ones nice.....

  • Now with a credit score of 717 & trapped in a credit card interest rate of 26.4%.... Is this going to help me stop DROWNING in a measly balance of 12,000? My original loan has been paid off several times over now.... but for the rape-fees....

    BTW Thank you for SOME action... hopefully it will help. The way I see it my creditors do not rightfully have 1 red cent more due from me. Evil stuff man.... pure freakin inhumane evil.

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  • Wow, the video quality is phenomenal!!!

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  • I recieved a notice from my credit card company last week telling me that I had a choice. A 10% increase in my interest rate, starting from day one, no grace period, or cancel my card. I canceled my card, and am paying it off at the old rate. I'm not that stupid to agree with their terms.

  • he's a lefty

  • No mention of how the NRA ruined this bill by adding an unrelated provision... loaded guns in national parks. Same old shameful special-interest Washington DC politics, way to go obama.

  • DCPowerStilts, it's just politics as usual, and both parties do it. Did you really expect things be different now with Obama in Office? And, Humans can't survive in the wilderness without the tools (weapons) to do it. I grew up in the country, so I know very well how defenceless humans are in the woods.

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  • Obama's Plan to Change Washington: "...Tell the corporate lobbyists their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over... they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president". As he signs a bill to bring loaded guns into national parks, it seems however that the gun lobby has a stranglehold on congress and a gag on Obama.

  • Who though Obama would do a good "job" again? lol

  • Obama: "We don't condone or excuse [fiscal] irresponsibility"

    Lolwut?

  • Yea, jscoppe,  Just what, exactly, has he been doing for the last 100+ days? first bailing out irresponsible companies, now irresponsible dredit card holders.

  • My credit card sent me a notice today. My cash advance % is now raised to 25%. Apparently legislation doesn't impact the actual people.

  • It depends on what credit card company you're dealing with. 2 out of the 3 I am overdue on are being actually nice and willing to work out payment plans that reduce interest and over-limit penalties. I explained to them that I'm unemployed and can't get another job, and that I am not a "reckless spender."

  • cridict;

    it's a start. It is better than doing nothing.

    Like we had the last 8 years of the Bush Administration.

  • tlogic101:

    Why to explain yourself dumbass

    Why don't you look back & research what actually CAUSED this economic crisis. Answer: Housing / Mortgage

    Who warned of an impending crisis 11 times? GW BUSH

    Who put forward Bill S190 to bring more oversight to Fannie/Freddie? REPUBLICANS

    Who blocked S190 in committee? DEMOCRATS

    Little liberal brains have been trained to believe that Repubs were against regulation

    Hear Democrats for yourself:

    "Democrats Fannie Economy Shocking"

  • pantherprowl22

    THANKS ! your so right .He did give the warning and tried to stop this.

    PLUS there's one great thing he did also.

    He kept the USA from another 9/11. He imprisoned the worst of the worst in Gitmo.

    but now the first terrorist has been released from Gitmo and where did Obama move him?

    NEW YORK !

    How shameful!

  • In all due respect, this signing of the credit reform bill doesn't solve anything.

  • Out of curiosity, what makes you say that? What do you think would have made it a more effective bill?

  • what was the deal with the pens at the end?

  • Its customary for presidents to sign a bill with more then one pen to give away as gifts and use as memorbillia in case the bill makes a major historical signifigance... think of the pen that signed the Gettysburgh Address or the Bill of Rights.

  • I wonder what kind of camera these videos are shot with. Amazing quality. lol. My computer almost cant keep up with the HD. lol

  • Defend the looters and destroy those who create.

  • YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT!!

  • good morning sunshine

  • you actually got something BACK from a credit card company?

  • What a pompus charade

  • The twin towards fell and the owner collected billions from insurance. How much are our lives worth?

    We don't have anything these people want but money. They don't want our love and companionship. They don't want us to have credibility, influence or control in our lives. We're slaves to time and the time it takes to pay bills. Our lives aren't worth less than the fortunes we build for these people, they don't care.

    The economic recession was totaly unforseen. What's next?

  • LOL- it wasn't totally unforeseen, everyone could see it coming from miles away. :)

  • Money is to bankers as heroin is to junkies.

  • This is good legislation, but still insufficient. In a consumer economy. If the largest and most profitable industry specializes in skillfully keeping consumers in debt, what is the logical outcome? Credit Cards are more profitable than oil. If you think it is all an issue of consumer irresponsibility. Then I will lend you $5,000 today, requiring $2,000 of interest. And tomorrow I am going to switch it to $50,000. Which they still can do. They now just have to tell you 45 days in advance.

  • If you borrow money on a credit card to buy extravagant purchases you don't need. You ARE an idiot. Because you are going to pay 80% interest. That is what a "finance charge" equates to. The policies of credit companies are not even capitalistic. The INITIAL deals they make mean noting. They can, snd still will change those deals once you are in debt.  And they bury those changes so that no individual is capable of understanding, Have a look at "deadbeet" default rate. It is under 5%.

  • Great job Mr. President.. the credit card companies have been legally ripping people off for years with their bait and switch tactics. I just wish that stupid gun law wasn't included in this bill. They were already allowed to have guns in National Parks they were just not allowed to be loaded until now.

  • "These jerks don't know the difference between a socialist and a communist. They are using words that Daddy Limbaugh taught them. The RNC is the party of Rush, Newt and Cheney. Good luck with that, Rethugs."

    Socialists are Communists who know they have to keep a low profile otherwise the people will revolt against them. Communists are Socialist who have already taken the peoples ability to revolt against them and don't worry about it anymore.

  • I'm having pasta for dinner

  • a bunch of crooks standing up there!!!

    people who pay their statement balances off in full will now be charged interest on the day of purchase.

  • ITS OFFICIAL! I now despise Barack Obama as much as George W. Bush1He refuses to pressure the Attorney General to PROSECUTE Bush for his illegal WIRE TAPPING and TORTURING ways.Its becoming real clear that our government tortured detainees not for information but for forced confessions2He's NOT pushing for Single Payer Health Care3He's killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and is killing Americans troops in these failed 2 wars he refuses to end. Even the NY Times says he's Dick Cheneys BITCH

  • Let me say one more thing-if people quit sucking down on KFC Greasy chicken shit and MCDONALDS GREASE and-ohh shock!--take care of themselves-and adopt healthy lifestyles, over 95% heart disease could be prevented and so can diabetes-all from lifestyle CHOICES. Ohh boy watch me get a a hundred negative flags for saying that! HELLO STUPID PEOPLE-QUIT SUCKING DOWN ON KFC CHICKEN GREASY SHIT AND MCDONALDS FRIED SHIT AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF-and quit smoking and drinking. USA: land of the obese.

  • That's why the credit system is going bust and so are the banks-PEOPLE WANT A FREE RIDE. They use their fucking credit cards and have stacks and stacks of them and never pay them off. They buy fucking LCD TVs, XBox 300, and all kinds of shit they don't need, and spend tons of money on clothes which you can easily get at any consigment shop for a few dollars instead of several hundred--and people go duhh the credit card system is not fair-PAY OFF YOUR FUCKING CREDIT CARDS-otherwise it's STEALING

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  • The credit card system is not "going bust". It is currently the most profitable industry in existence. Above oil. The bill does not provide payment of a single credit card bill for anyone. What the unsecured lending industry does is steal because they have the ability to change a contract once your in debt. Such example is the average $5,000 debt requires $50,000 to clear. $60,000 requires $750,000. Because they are allowed to switch the contract after you already make a purchase.

  • USA is the new mexico

  • how many pens are needed to sign the bill? w/e...that's sexy.

  • It is a time for peace and recovery.

    Too bad some republicans are so far gone that they want no part of the healing, so I say fuck 'em.

  • Think we have a free press in USA? WRONG Look up "Operation Mockingbird"

    Hey President-NO JOBS means NO RECOVERY

  • fuck off

  • did your dad rape you?

  • This president is clinically insane.

  • no hes not. sorry

  • yes he is. sorry

  • how. would you like to put up some facts or are you getting all you info from fox news.

  • are you going to back up your shit or not.

  • itdan676:

    watch?v=glgE3efR3zY

    If I must point you to something else let me know

  • It is you who is clinically insane. Do you hear people speaking who are really not there?

    After looking at your profile, you are batshit crazy.

  • CHANGE were is my Universal Health Care You Promised me and al the other people who voted for YOU ?? Pray do tell ? Your WH tells me to go to the Dept of Human Services and they tell me I dont QUALIFY because I am not a women with a child or a illegal in 2 STATES have told me the same ..Please do something about the LAME people answering the Phones ...HR 676 NOW Please like You Promised in 2003 to all of us WHO Voted for YOU Mr.President

  • He's only been in office for 4 months. You expected to have a new health care plan in only 4 months?????? Are you really that ignorant? Uneducated? Stupid?

  • Yep-that's how stupid people are. This sort of thing should have started back during the Clinton years (health care), and this economic collapse was due to YEARS and YEARS of abusing the credit system--and people expect Obama to wave a magic wand and it's all fixed. That's how stupid people are. They think President Obama can wiggle or twitch his nose and it's all fixed-ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!!!

  • Sams charges me 24% ! What will be done about this ? Please dont let Walmart be a Part of the National Computer They are the CAUSE of ALL STATES MEDICAL BANKRUPTSY in all EMERGENCY ROOMS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY !

  • There is a lot you can do with this-you can pay off your Sams credit card within the month and not pay any interests. But I guess that never occurred to you,did it. And frankly I think it's a good idea to have mini clinics in Wal-marts: You would be surprised how many people use the Emergency rooms as a walk in clinic for a simple chest cold or whatever bullshit.

  • you know nothing about the nazis. stop trying to act smart.

  • I remember I was in a clothing store and this woman bought a ton of fashion clothing. She was with her baby and husband. To pay for them, she whipped out literally a whole STACK of credit cards. TO pay for shit she didn't need. She could have bought real nice clothes at a thrift or consignment shop-where I GET my clothing-and good clothes too-for just a few dollars. Not $75 or $100 for one article of clothing. That's why AMerica is so screwed up-STUPIDITY & IRRESPONSIBILITY! STOP REWARDING THAT

  • So, 1 person does something stupid and all of a sudden the entire country is stupid? Speak for yourself.

  • What planet are you living on? You would be suprised how many people live like this-I would say it's the AMERICAN WAY of life-credit cards. That's why our nation is in a near depression-because you can't forever borrow money and expect profit-YOU CAN'T GET SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING, and I don't care what anybody says-that's STEALING. Just under the polite word "borrowing" without paying back.

  • It is wonderful that Obama is reforming our credit card laws. There was a time when loan sharking was illegal, and hopefully that time has come again. The Conservative "Revolution" has raped the average person for too long.

  • Did you know not converting to digital back in February cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars? Haven't you figured out that many people simply are not responsible-so what do you do? Reward them. Eventually digital television would have to happen-so instead you gave them a 4 month grace period-and cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars. WHY are you rewarding irresponsibility??? This credit card thing is another example.

  • Why high interest rates? Due to people NOT paying their credit card bills. So now you passed a law that will encourage American people to further NOT pay their credit cards. You know when you buy things without paying in the old days that was called STEALING. How is this any different than the "five finger discount"-when people still are not paying for it? You should have left the credit card companies alone.

  • we should just give the people in debt money... NO MORE DEBT!!! yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh

  • none of this wouldve happened if idiots would have paid their bills

  • YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!

  • pimping is hard

  • ObamaObamaObamaObama

  • I heard this bill will mean i cant get a credit card in my name until im 21. Is this true?

  • Per Section 127, you would still be able to get one with a cosigner.

  • Of course not.

  • You can get a credit card any time you want-there are PRE-PAID credit cards.

  • Look at all of these stupid fucks that give me negatives when I tell a little truth-PAY OFF YOUR FUCKING CREDIT CARDS-THERE IS NO FREE RIDE. HELLO! THERE IS NO FREE RIDE!! Watch how many stupid fucks give me negatives for saying this. And yes ANYBODY can get a credit card-it's called PRE-PAID. Available in all Wal-Mart stores and most retail stores. Check it out.

  • That's funny-I've been using credit cards for decades and never had to pay a single dime on interest rates because I pay my bills on time and pay whatever I charge off quickly. I think this new law rewards irresponsible people, so it's going to increase the problems-not help it. YOU CAN'T LIVE OFF OF CREDIT. Period. Nothing produces nothing. Let me say this: NOBODY is forced to use a credit card and my daddy never owned one his entire life and lived just fine!

  • Your Daddy probably didn't need to have credit to get a job, rent an apartment, get his utilities turned on or any of the myriad reasons why our society has made it necessary to have them.

  • No daddy never lived beyond his means and raised three children responsibly. He never bought foolish things and worked very hard all his life. My father was the greatest person to live on this earth. And I take his example and, well, though I do have credit cards, I PAY THEM OFF quickly. So I never pay a cent of interest.

  • That's great, and it's the best way to do it, but why should anyone be FORCED to have credit? Why is it wrong for people to choose to live solely by cash and leave credit alone?

  • i dont get it? so how does this bill help the jana family?? and others like her?

  • It doesn't help. It only encourages people to spend money they don't have-and a big hint-you can't get something out of nothing. Back in the old days it was called STEALING. But now STEALING is legal by the aquisition of pieces of plastic. You can steal all you want and get away with it with those credit cards. That's why America is so screwed up.

  • It's going to help by stopping credit card companies from raising rates and tacking on fees making it impossible for them to be paid off...

  • Nobody forces anyone to use a credit card. Daddy never used a credit card. Not his entire life. He NEVER used one. Dad scolded me when I did get one; but I use it wisely; When I use a credit card, I pay it off-fast. So for years I never had to pay a dime in interest rates yet enjoyed all the benefits of having a credit card. Now if these credit cards charge me an annual fee-I have a quick cure for that. I'll STOP using them! Period. If my papa could live without a credit card-so can I!

  • Where in this bill is there ANYTHING at all about taking away guns? There are already federal restrictions on carrying firearms in national parks. this president didn't put those rules in place. Read the bill... Section 512... You're a fabulous example of the failed American education system... Or maybe your an example of it resounding success? Hmmm...

  • Let me guess. . .you're a Southern, white male? An uneducated one I might add.

  • Dont talk about what you dont know, you dont know anything about history of Germany.

    But well if you learn from Heston that may explain a lot.

  • THE BAIL-OUT MONEY should of WENT TO EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN Not the Bankers ! I cant wait for the NEW Movie from Mr.Moore about this BAILOUT SCAM ! I will NEVER INVEST again NEVER !! Save My Cash in MY HOUSE they can take their 45 Interest and stick it in a dark HOLE !

  • Yeah so people can spend it on LCD televisions made in China LOL

  • thank you MR. President!

  • change is in the air! LOL .. barack is cool.

  • Does he sign two letters of his name before switching to the next pen?

  • Awesome.. It's about darn Time that something change in favor of the little guys. Banks getting bailed out, Enron, GM, Wamu, Ect.... but now... no more pushing us around! :)

  • isnt it hot outside?

  • I wonder what strings will be attached to this latest plot to gain votes? Will it become another scandal that began as a good intention, but turned bad? These started off the same way... PorkULous-Gate Tax Cheater-Gate Apologetic-Gate GM-Gate AIG-Gate Gitmo-Gate Green Initiative-Gate Bonus-Gate Air Force One Fly Over-Gate Man, theres not going to be enough room for all the "GATES" here.....Rats! Anyway, latest one.... Pelosi-Gate
  • Let's not forget 9/11-Gate, Iraq War-Gate, Hurricane Katrina-Gate, Torture-Gate, Recession-Gate, WhoShotTheLawyer-Gate, Nucular-Gate, and the latest one, Dick Cheney-Gate.

  • It appears as if adding 'Gate' to the end of a thing someone disapproves of, now suffices for convincing arguments.

  • Actually it makes one think since most of what the democrats are passing never gets much thought at all.

    Much like the stimulus bill.... no one seems to have read it but it was put into law anyway.

    And since you don't seem to "get it", I'll help ya here.... the "gate" is political satire added as opposition to decisions that were made without thought that are destructive to the country!

  • This video looks sharper than other videos I have been watching.

    Is it only me?

  • it is better, very high def.

  • yeah...u and me both man

  • With a national parks gun law hidden inside! Thanks a lot Obama...

  • This does bump President Obama's grade up to a B-. If he were to stop running with thugs from Connecticut it would go to a B+ but you are judged by the companies you keep afloat (sp?)at the expense of of nonexistant human beings.

  • Are you the official grade giver?

  • Actually... yes I am!

    But if you look closely, there's no grades to what I put in my comment.

    But on your post at least I'll respond to yours..

    911, Iraq War.... was supported by your liberal democrats too.

    Katrine... can't help "stupid" when the democrats were running things in LA.

    Torture... 3 waterboarded and obama backing off releasing ALL the CIA documents... no contest there!

    Shot the lawyer & Nuclear? Never head of those!

    Cheney.. exposes what obama is hiding about the CIA docs.

  • I will believe all of this change stuff once the midterms come around. When every incumbent is thrown out of office accross this land from govoners to state reps to the congress to the senate I will be on board 100%, untill that happens and carreer cri aahhmm politicians are tossed to the side this will all be semantics. This applies to the cabinet as well, we the people have no control in all reality in regards to that, but I hope we the people get the point.

  • good work ,Kazi nzuri

  • Mr. President, thank you for bringing up the truth in everyone's face. It's slightly impolite but desperately needed!

  • Yay!

  • barack obama will go down has the greatest president ever********

  • If Barack was a white guy, i dont think ppl would bitch so much, STFU and let the man WORK! he's doin us a favor. i think we would be worse if mccain was running the show,

  • The money that banks lend out for credit is YOUR money... If YOU are careful and save, YOU maybe earn 1% interest. The bank loans out YOUR money and earns 30% or more on that loan. How is it possible that YOU can agree to allow someone to loan out YOUR money and make 30% on it while only paying YOU 1%. These companies do raise interest rates on borrowers constantly, whenever they feel like it. When was the last time they raised the interest rate that YOU earn on your savings account?

  • about 5 years ago, I had a couple credit cards that jacked up their interests rates when I missed a bill by a couple of days, on a different card! And this is after making good on-time payments for 4 years! I got pissed and paid them off and canceled those accounts. 5 years later, my credit is awesome, and these 2 companies are flooding my mail box with apps. lol, in the dumpster they go~ I hope they go out of business.

  • The Government is still filled with special interests. Obama is just compromising with those people, which is the last thing presidents should do.

  • tiitytat:

    Only can say that online, huh?

    P.S. FUCK YOU!

  • 3rkid2, You rally are a neadrothal, do you know that? Can't you speak without swearing and hurling insults? Or is your mind so small that anger, rage and Violence your only responses to everything you don't agree with? Play time's over, boy and it's time to grow up.

  • I only said the "P.S. FUCK YOU! " because he (the person who I was responding to) said it... You can't see him say it because it was marked as spam...

    Don't insult me about. small mindedness.

  • wow, I really thought people had gotten over his middle name being Hussein

  • This is ridiculous. I'm usually with the President, but this is over the line. And some of the provisions that were added in?!? Seriously, the right to carry loaded and hidden guns to national parks and refugee? Seriously?!?!

  • This bill is a farce. This is a free market society. As far as guns go, I should be able to carry my firearm anywhere in this country that I want to as long as I abide all the laws of every state in which I travel. Strange for it to be in this bill, yes, but nobody in congress that is still an American would have voted for such a anti-american bill without something like that in it.

  • tiitytat, your ideologies overpower your grasp on reality. Obama introduces a few measures that ensure that credit card companies stop using deceitful methods and start acting in a FAIR and BALANCED way, and you claim that he's a terrorist, communist, and destroying the "free" market; dude, you don't make sense at all. You can limit intentionally bad business practices that do real harm to real, responsible people without endangering your holy, perfect ideology of the "free market".

  • Bank are already hurting so Obama is going to hurt them more?

    Banks are in the business to make money. Nobody is forced to use credit cards and every credit card comes with agreement terms.

    Now it's going to be harder to get a credit card because a bunch of people are not responsible.

    Banks will make up the money somewhere, and they are going to get it from people with good credit now.

  • Banks hurt themselves by extending credit to alot of "bad" risk customers and making up for it by penalizing their "good" customers... It should be hard to get a credit card! Why should we "need" them? A person who actually pays CASH and doesn't use credit get's punished for doing so!

  • How does it hurt a bank if they start being fair to responsible card owners now? Mind you, Obama is doing things like keeping banks from shifting payment dates, which could hurts both the banks and the card owner. He's just putting in common sense, straightforward limitations, and he's doing NOTHING to make it easier on people who are irresponsible; watch the video and listen to what he puts in.

  • Banks are greedy and only care about profit. They care nothing for the people who use their services. Nobody forces anyone to have a credit card but the fact is there is the pressure of advertising and the fact they are really easy to get. Consumers need to be protected from the sharks who take advantage of those who do not understand the small print and the crooked contracts they sign, especially when they lose a job.

  • You are pinalised for not using a credit card because credit determines so much in our lives sadly. Even some businesses promote people based on their credit. You have to build it.

    You also need credit/debit to order online or other areas.

    Every card does come with agreements, but card companies dont follow those agreements even when consumers do. How do you ignore that and act like only the consumers are breaking the rules?

    It should be hard to get a card, would cut down irresponsibles huh?

  • No free market is absolute, and regulation has always been part of any market-oriented society. If you look throughout all of history, you will not find exceptions - government action in fact creates most of the elements needed for a market, from currency to corporate charters.

  • I agree. Philosophically, it seems to me that pure capitalism contradicts itself. During the Industrial Revolution, the steel, oil, and railroad industries were grossly monopolized, preventing the jumpstart of any competition (the existing small businesses were swallowed in by the fat cats). When one coporation has control over an entire industry, by killing or minimalizing competition, how is that any different--or any better--than socialism?

  • that's right....but we are going to change our name from USA to USSA. The government is going to have so much power soon, and we'll be crying for a free market.

  • Government power goes up and down as we try new things, this isnt new and the government has had as much and more power in the past.

    Stop being so paranoid. This is nothing new and it just takes us all keeping our reps and sens in check. The government is far from enough power to become some USSR alike. Far from the max power its had in the past.

    Read some more history and not just the history of the paranoid.

    We the people are behind stuff like this credit reform

  • Hey you never know when you're going to have to defend yourself these days. carrying a loaded gun is not dangerous. Law abiding citizens aren't your problem with guns...it's the people buying them on the streets that are a problem.

  • Many guns off the streets were stolen from law abiding citizens or made in legitimate gun shops that shouldnt be making assault weapons. No law abiding citizens needs assault weapons. Not that they would do so well against tanks if its the government your worried about.

    Even then, many "law-abiding" citizens kill innocent people on accident yearly. Gun-nuts are definitely people to be afraid of, even trained ones. Anybody ready for danger at any turn will make mistakes.

  • Here goes the communist terrorist again shoving his socialist agenda down our throats.  More handouts for irresponsible lazy people and more punishment for hard working, responsible consumers. The government should have nothing to do with controlling businesses, that is not their job. This is utter bullshit and Hussein Obama has got to be removed from office before business in the USA becomes extinct.

  • Government should control business to a point.

    Socialism and communism are two different things. Sweden is socialist and the USSR was communist.

  • Government should help businesses thrive, not destroy them all. Hussein's policies are crippling business in America. We the People are in charge. The government is there to protect us, not control free enterprise. Hussein Obama is a fundamental communist and is shoving his socialist beliefs down our throats. He is a traitor to the USA.

  • Most of the people that head big businesses are narcissistic and by limiting some businesses let the whole economy thrive. remember how big business lead to the great depression? the people are only in charge of who gets elected and that is it.

    Obama is no more a communist then Bush was a religious radical.

  • These jerks don't know the difference between a socialist and a communist. They are using words that Daddy Limbaugh taught them. The RNC is the party of Rush, Newt and Cheney. Good luck with that, Rethugs.

  • What about the goverment living within its means? This asshole has us 11.9 trillion in debt. Change my ass !!

    Look at California thats where we are going.

    What a joke!

  • I don't use credit cards so this has no affect on me at all

  • It will have an effect on you someway....every socialist welfare program hurts citizens that actually do something for a living. (doing something for a living isn't sitting in front of your mailbox waiting for your welfare check to arrive)

  • Thats a very uneducated statement you just made, assuming most people using social programs dont have jobs or arent looking for them.

    I was on food stamps while being an in-home nurse.

    It was very helpful for the 3 months I was on it, and I got off when I was finished with the service.

    Many people are simply laid off and need help while looking for a second job, which isnt easy to do most of the time, no matter what your skills.

  • You never know when you might need help also unless you are lucky enough to have wealthy family to back up onto.

  • So, social security will hurt you how? Medicaid. Medicare. And yet, another ignorant, uneducated RepubliKKKan who stereotypes hard working Americans as sitting at home waiting for a welfare check.

  • peterbob101, your so wrong on that. It does effect you. Your taxes ,right now are paying someone elses debt.

    Debt of any kind effects all Americans.

    I am debt free and own my home and all that I possess but We All pay .Especailly for people that wont work but can!

  • A kinder gentler vig, don't forget the bailout (S). We need a lot more change in the midterms from Maine to Califonia to Alaska to Hawaii. Did the banks live within their means , no they live within our grandchildrens means, oh yeah they aren't here yet. I guess for banks it is by any means possible oh well it was a nice country!

  • Does anyone suspect that the fair lending act from the seventies. Or perhaps in 95 Clinton proclaimed that everyone was ENTITLED to the American dream of home ownership and signed the lending bill.

    Freddy and Fannie go back to the seventies.

    Now this same mentality carried over to the credit card market

    Back in the day to buy a house you had to have like a job-20% down they even looked at your debt ratio.

  • I absolutely love this president. For the first time in YEARS, I feel as if there is someone in office who actually represents me, actually cares about THE PEOPLE, and actually cares about the environment. I would give my life for this president if it would mean that he could continue giving the world the positive change that it needs.