Quote from Scataphagos:
THAT'S telling him!
What name is he called if he also pays his mortgage and car payment on time?
Ooh, ooh... what about if he actually saves some of his money?
Quote from TGregg:
Slacking off, getting into debt, not bothering to read your mortgage contract when you sign a contract for hundreds of thousands of dollars, squeezing out kids you can't afford to pay for - all of this is the hallmark of the new privileged class. We reward screwups and punish success. We encourage failure and are harsh on those who do not fail. It's a race to the bottom now, whoever can make the biggest mistakes gets the biggest handouts. Whoever succeed the most, gets the biggest burden. It's the utopia that liberals have been eager to spring on mankind.
Quote from forsalenyc:
now that the bill is officially passed. anyone guess what the reality will be? Banks will probably make more money off those with good credit and those who pay off their balance in full. And still find a way to abuse those with higher rate and bad credit.
On a personal note, I'll probably downgrade my executive membership at Costco to a regular one. 4% rebate bye-bye.
Quote from Blue_Ice:
This is exactly what's going to happen.
Reminds me of that commercial of a credit/debit card in which everything rolled smoothly until someone wanted to pay in cash...
CC companies will ramp up the fees, people will cancel their credit cards, shift to debit cards. If they ramp up the fees on debit cards then people will go back 40 years in time and begin carrying cash in their pockets again.
Online retailing will suffer a setback and the local stores will get a second chance. The whole buying/selling process will be annoying to most people used to plastic.
I'm in the process of collecting all my CC rewards, turning them into cash statement credits and/or transferring to airline miles. I'm expecting those reward programs to go bust, very much ala GM dealers.
Today you have it, tomorrow you won't...
People will adjust, life will go on, the cycle will repeat in a few years from now.