Soup of the Day: Geithner, Israel, Banks

Question: What do The Ks do about their video?

I say call up that A hole Tim Geithner, tell him you're a bank and you need free money to make a video. Those bank cats are now running multi-$100,000 ads in newspapers, etc. advertising their greatness and freedom to do as they choose...throwing bonus money around. That's my money.

Geithner has to go. Can we impeach a Treasury Secretary? Our kleptocracy continues. We didn't skip a beat. Hope every Repub in both houses votes nay on the new $2.9 trillion giveaway.

p.s. does anybody know who won the election in Israel? I believe they'll be going to a recount and then to court. Fine with me. Israel doesn't need a PM. A prez is plenty. And my home state needs only 1 Senator. I've given up on having 2.

And so far as Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, both of whom took massive TARP money in order to unfreeze lines of credit, or so the government reasoning went...both banks went the other direction. Credit card interest rates jumped from 12.99% to 19.99% and in some cases 30%. Homeowner loans (to fix stuff up) were advertised at 7.9%, but came in at 11.9% (for folks with perfect credit scores). And if you have a savings account with either of these banks, they pay you .89% interest, at best. Not even a single point. That's called usury.

Kleptocracy kills everything. Let all banks fail. Reboot. Start over.

Back to rhythmic gymnastics.

--Soup Campbell