Robber Baron, Ken Lewis

I would like to add to the post on Dade Cariaga's Blog of the video of Ann Minch deciding to no longer pay her credit card bill as a form of protest because of the increased interest rate imposed by Bank of America. Ann mentions the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis (she actually calls him Ken Ley by mistake).

Here is a photo of Ken Lewis, the thieving bastard himself. After participating in making bad banking decisions, he was rewarded for his bad behavior by receiving part of the $700,000,000,000 banking bailout in the form of our tax dollars. Now, not only does he ravage us lesser folks (referred to as "beasts" by founding father James Madison and many others of our wealthy white elite alleged founders) by charging folks exorbitant overdraft fees, but they have also increased the interest rates on credit cards (and no doubt, in other arenas as I'm sure there is a pattern to this). So, not only is Ken Lewis participating in robbing the government that ALLEGES to represent us of OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS, they are also getting what they can right out of our pockets, as it were.

So, here is a picture of one of the handful of brutal criminals, CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. See how happy he is? It is because he doesn't have to pay overdraft charges or increased interest rates, he gets that money that he stole from us stuffed into his salary, bonus package, and no doubt his golden parachute. Heck! I'd be pretty damned happy if I could get away with such mass robbery and have GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR IT! For some reason, his smile makes me appreciate bank robbers all that much more.

Bonnie and Clyde were robbing banks back in the day when banks were doing the same thing, robbing the people in order to help pay for their bad banking decisions, complete with government support back then as well. But the ROBBER BARONS, like Ken Lewis here, are praised and supported as good businessmen and will never...NEVER...see a day behind bars or the gallows like they should.

Heck! I'd be smiling too if I could get away with such crimes. Heck, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank.