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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Ditch Your Big Bank - - Take Your Money To Main Street
Good message for Occupy Wall Street Everywhere Day: Ditch your big bank!
We've had our checking and savings accounts, even mortgages and IRA's, at Credit Unions in Milwaukee since 1983. Here's plenty of information about options to big banks:
I joined the St Colman Parish Federal Credit Union in 1954, and have been a CU member ever since. That parish in Cleveland has dwindled from having an elementary school with 800 students to a little Puerto Rican daycare program. But, the St Colman Credit Union is still there--strong, solvent, never-bailed-out--providing a killer alternative to the stinking loan-shark payday lenders which are capitalized by the--you guessed it--BIG BANKS.
I briefly had a bank account in my first couple of years as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. Ever since I graduated more than 30 years ago, I've been a credit union member. Easy decision, all the way.
I joined the St Colman Parish Federal Credit Union in 1954, and have been a CU member ever since. That parish in Cleveland has dwindled from having an elementary school with 800 students to a little Puerto Rican daycare program. But, the St Colman Credit Union is still there--strong, solvent, never-bailed-out--providing a killer alternative to the stinking loan-shark payday lenders which are capitalized by the--you guessed it--BIG BANKS.
ReplyDeleteI briefly had a bank account in my first couple of years as an undergraduate at UW-Madison. Ever since I graduated more than 30 years ago, I've been a credit union member. Easy decision, all the way.
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