Re: BT & DD

"Mike_B" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In message <56aml3F278oelU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Cargill
<fickle@xxxxxxxxxx> writes

That would be 'their' money then.


Only if they can get people to pay it. Like any business, if people vote
with their feet and move to more competitive providers, then the business
adjusts its practices to make itself more competitive.

Which doesn't change the fact that it is still 'their' money.

On the one hand we have vastly profiteering banks and on the other hand
we
have people struggling to pay their bills. I simply cannot grasp why so
many people are blaming the latter for an effect generated by the
former,
or why they think the latter should subsidise the services they use.

Presumably you would prefer it if the banks did not make a profit then?


The banks make profits without making unlawful penalty charges. There is
no logical reason why those who have no difficulty paying their bills
should receive a free service, subsidised by those who do have difficulty
paying their bills.

There is also no logical reason to suggest that those who have difficulty
paying bills subsidise banking for everyone else either. Free banking was
around before many of these people got their own bank accounts.

And how are the banks to blame for people spending money they do not have?


Well, watch TV adverts, open any newspaper, look at the mail coming
through people's doors every day, try transacting business through a bank
without them attempting to sell you a credit service. There are lots of
ways the banks are responsible for people spending money they don't have.

Crap. Just because someone offers you something doesn't mean you have to
take it.

I bet you blame McDonalds for making people fat as well?


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