DAILY OUTRAGES: DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH CHASE BANK!

p img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u26/BREAK.THE_.BANKS_.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 168px" //p p nbsp;/p p Bruce Allison and I recently reported on how many millions of dollars in taxes Chase Bank didn#39;t pay in California (due to a backroom deal with The Governator, Ahnold Schwarzenegger).nbsp; That isn#39;t the only unethical behavior from this particular bank./p p I#39;m a baseball addict.nbsp; I listen to baseball on the radio.nbsp; I hear far too many advertisements, but the one that stood out for me the most on June 11, 2011 (other than that horrible Kars For Kids charity ad that doesn#39;t say what they do or give any other important details a listener with a brain might want), is Chase Bank#39;s ad telling people about how they can earn money for more material goods for themselves (or luxuries) with a mortgage from them./p p The Sub-Prime Mortgage Bubble (SPMB) was growing while the Dot Com Bust sucked the air out of a piece of the Amerikkkan economy.nbsp; The SPMB started before George W. Bush was well established as President, but he allowed it (and Bernie Madoff, and many other financial monsters) to continue to grow because Republikkkans hate regulation of business.nbsp; They worship Kkkapitalism.nbsp; Demokkkrats do too, they just aren#39;t as obvious about it./p p The SPMB exploded in 2008 and Obama won the Presidential election in part because the Republikkkans couldn#39;t stop publically worshipping Kkkapitalism, trusting corporations to be honest without guns put to their CEO#39;s heads, etc.nbsp; Foreclosure became a household word./p p Foreclosure is still an important word.nbsp; Lots of them are still happening in CA and San Francisco (and beyond) and Chase Bank is running ads for people to buy their mortgage services and, apparently, create more potential victims of somewhere-down-the-road foreclosures as if that particular F-Word didn#39;t exist, doesn#39;t mean diddly, the world is everybody#39;s oyster, yadda yadda./p p I recently read a newspaper article about a bank that screwed a customer who paid for a foreclosed-upon house and got treated as if they had been foreclosed upon too.nbsp; The bank was dragged into court and lost.nbsp; The bank failed to pay damages.nbsp; The customer visited the bank with the Po#39;Lice to seize bank property so it could be sold to raise the money they owed.nbsp; The bank paid the money they owed very quickly after that!nbsp;/p p I have also enjoyed watching a YouTube video of San Francisco protestors, lead by The Brass Liberation Orchestra, performing one of the most amazing and funniest protests I#39;ve ever seen in a Bank of America branch (a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdxTcaCS65Y"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdxTcaCS65Y/a)./p p Chase Bank must pay those back taxes they owe in full immediately.nbsp; Chase Bank must stop advertising its mortgage services as if the Sub-Prime Mortgage Bubble and Bust didn#39;t happen and isn#39;t still wreaking havok in peoples#39; lives and creating more potential friends and allies for organizations like POOR Magazine./p p If you have accounts with Chase Bank--don#39;t!nbsp; Don#39;t do any business with them.nbsp; E-mail them, call them, snail-mail them (send their junk mail back full of, well, junk!).nbsp; Make them feel the pain, the rage, of the many people they and their industry havenbsp; hurt./p