Boycott Bank of America?

[GunClasses.Net]

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This is just the start.

Imagine you're an intern walking into BoA CEO Brian Moynihan's board meeting about their 2011 Net INCOME of $109 BILLION...
$109,000,000,000

and slipping him a note that says "We just lost revenue of $10million
$10,000,000

to the American gun owners who left us over the McMillan issue."

Just a hunch, he'd grunt and say "I can't be bothered with this". I don't think he'll put his little finger to his mouth, Dr Evil style and go, "TEN MILLION DOLLARS...!!!" $109B in revenue is about 1% the GDP of the entire United States. They are so big that they don't care and they won't care.

I went to a Credit Union long ago. If we really want to stand up to the mega banks, we've already severed ties and done what it takes to get out of debt to them. We aren't their debt slaves.

But, ok so you left BoA; you're one of the 10,000 gun owners who would actually back up the tough talk with action. Fine. It starts with us; good start, and it needs to happen. But, don't pat yourself on the back, just yet and waive a banner that says "Mission Accomplished". THEN, we have to take a stand for our companies, our cities and our counties to stop feeding the beasts, then our states. Sure, you're one of the gun owners who walked. You still work for a company in debt to them. You still live in a city whose muni bonds are owned by them, and for sure your state is in hoc to them. Oh, and that new gynmasium at your kids' school? Funded by BoA. Think how deep this rabbit hole goes!

Now, imagine a state and all its corporations and its cities and its counties and all its citizens not in hoc to an international banking cartel... Just imagine... what a world that would be for the people who made that decision to live that way. We, individually, corporately, and governmentally, have made some really bad bedfellows.

Again, this "gun owners' boycott" is just the start, if it's to become anything significant.

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[MH52]

Bank Of America's reply should also be considered: https://www.facebook.com/BankofAmerica

They wrote: "We want to let you know that we hear your comments and questions regarding one of our customers. While we cannot discuss the details of any individual client we work with, we can assure you the allegations being made here are completely false. Bank of America does not have a policy that prohibits us from banking clients in this industry. In fact, we have numerous, longstanding customers in the industry.

We are also extremely proud of our support of the US military and reject any assertion to the contrary. We count as clients many companies that provide for our nation's defense. We employ thousands of veterans, Guardsmen, and Reservists, and plan to increase our hiring this year."

 

[USN2Pulpit]

Yeah, I'm not prepared to boycott without proof, especially if Bank of America denies the accusation. There must be something else in play that has not been made public.

 

[meatsandwich]

Bank Of America's reply should also be considered: https://www.facebook.com/BankofAmerica

They wrote: "We want to let you know that we hear your comments and questions regarding one of our customers. While we cannot discuss the details of any individual client we work with, we can assure you the allegations being made here are completely false. Bank of America does not have a policy that prohibits us from banking clients in this industry. In fact, we have numerous, longstanding customers in the industry.

We are also extremely proud of our support of the US military and reject any assertion to the contrary. We count as clients many companies that provide for our nation's defense. We employ thousands of veterans, Guardsmen, and Reservists, and plan to increase our hiring this year."

It was just on the news earlier this morning that they are laying off 200 this month and there will be more to come, so where are they hiring the military!!! Google search Bank of America dropping McMillian Corp. and it says they dropped them because they have started manufactoring firearm component instead of just supplying some products.

 

[crowsnake]

I was considering BOA because of our travel & Dons job in El Paso. Having accounts in a bank that is available where ever we are is good. But they have Fees to consider. Glad to hear from them that it might be a non Issue about guns. If we do sell our house & move I have to find a different bank.

 

[GunClasses.Net]

I don't get it; so... the big banking cartels that profit from war and its debt don't want us armed? I'm shocked! lol

 

[eagleeyes]

all banks are shysters esp boa their logo alone is very telling

 

[BC1]

They really don't care if every gun owner boycotts them.

 

[JohnD13]

I have found the credit unions to be far easier to work with on any basis. Checking account? What fee? Minimum balance? Yes, $25.00! Fee for this fee for that. Who really needs BoA, except, maybe, the DNC.

 

[rifleshooter474]

When I see a no firearm sign on their doors then I will pull the plug on BofA, so far it has not happened.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Bank Of America's reply should also be considered: https://www.facebook.com/BankofAmerica

They wrote: "We want to let you know that we hear your comments and questions regarding one of our customers. While we cannot discuss the details of any individual client we work with, we can assure you the allegations being made here are completely false. Bank of America does not have a policy that prohibits us from banking clients in this industry. In fact, we have numerous, longstanding customers in the industry.

We are also extremely proud of our support of the US military and reject any assertion to the contrary. We count as clients many companies that provide for our nation's defense. We employ thousands of veterans, Guardsmen, and Reservists, and plan to increase our hiring this year."

This is just a BILLSCHIT statement by Bank of America to try and get some of the heat off of them. WELL GUESS WHAT, IT DIDN`T WORK.
I also hate any company that says to press one for english when you call them. I LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, WE SPEAK ENGLISH HERE AND i SHOULDN`T HAVE TO PRESS ONE FOR MY OWN LANGUAGE..

 

[GunClasses.Net]

Well, that's the new globalism at work. The reality is that BoA wants to court as many customers as possible, and a large percent of the people in the United States now speak Spanish. Americans didn't speak English for the past 200 years because they loved England over America (1776 proves that false), so I think we have to be open to the idea that a lot of Spanish speaking Americans don't speak Spanish because they love Spain over America. Immigrants to the U.S., whether they came here in 1690 from England or in 1990 from Latin America came here for the same reasons and both simply brought their language with them.

Lots of Italian immigrants in New York City came here in the early 1900s and never learned English; but nobody in Minnesota printed signs in both English and Italian, because the Italian descendants weren't here; the English ones were. I guarantee you in many 1920 NYC borroughs, if you didn't speak Italian, you didn't do business. So, long story short, it's BoA meeting its customers where they are.

Yelling in all caps about the sanctity of the English language will probably be widely interpreted as 'the angry white guy'. At a time when we face SUCH an uphill battle for media opinion, we have to be careful about how we are seen by the public; this board is viewable publicly. NOT saying we have to censor everything and be over sensitive or Politically Correct... I've just noticed that we gun owners are often VERY sensitive to how the media protrays us, so why would we not self-monitor to be sure we're not adding fuel to the fire?

When you think about this issue, remember that the Native Americans didn't insist we speak Navajo, did they?? ;-)

 

[GunClasses.Net]

Just more thought on this issue;

I think the difference in the speed of learning and adopting English between previous generations of immigrants and today's is due to two characteristics:
1. Immigrants were previously isolated in their neighborhoods both physically and communicatively. Today, mobility and mass communication does not isolate someone like before.
2. Sheer numbers and the penetration of immigrant populations are both overwhelmingly moreso than previously experienced. In other words, there are lots more of them and they’re everywhere.

Before all of this, an immigrant (maybe a Pole or an Italian) could live in their locale and communicate with others with similar experiences, without any extra consideration needed by anyone. The farmer near Mankato, MN would never know or experience it. Today, the farmer goes into Mankato and finds immigrant workers also doing their business next to him.

Language is not just a means of communication; it carries our stories, our history, and our culture. When people feel their language is losing its dominance, it’s probably natural to feel that loss. So, I do understand how this can be uncomfortable for the farmer in Mankato, even painful and difficult. I’m not at all saying that there shouldn’t be a common standard for communication. Send two people to an uninhabited island who speak to different languages; there will have to be some give and take in order for things to get done. Send two such people to America and you have the same. If neither wants to give, you have a problem... communication is impossible, and someone runs a stop sign because they couldn’t read the other person’s sign.

Unfortunately, this analogy may not even apply to the BoA situation; banking has become so complicated, it's often not understood in one's OWN native language (sarcasm)...

Either way, remember that Hispanics are the fastest growing demographic of gun owners in America. So, it may be that we either learn to work together or we are divided and conquered.

 

[alphie]

I left BofA a year ago for other reasons. I've never looked back. There are too many other banking options than to put up with their policies. It just seemed to me that they were being managed from some large corporate office somewhere on earth, not locally. I finally got frustrated enough to leave.