Will Credit Cards reconsider rate hikes on good customers?

I am hoping. I was given notice yesterday via mail that my Capital One card was going to be raising my rate by 4 percent in July. All I can do is opt out of this change if I don't like it which means ruining my credit score, by making me look like more of a risk or I can go along with the rate change and just pay down my card as I have been anyway but now having a higer rate and payments. Doesn't really seem fair when GOOD CUSTOMERS are getting these greed fees tacked on their accounts when all they have been doing is paying their card as agreed. I pay on time and over my minimums every month and still get rewarded with a 4 percent increase in my interest rates. NICE! NOT!!!!

I know Congress is trying to help but once again.. They are not helping the people that are good customers and didn't mess up their credit or not pay their bills. They are helping those who have defaulted and don't seem to care that the folks who have been paying their bills on time every month and haven't ever gone over their limits or defaulted in any way are getting screwed paying higher interest rates and any tacked on fees they might throw at us in a particular month.

I am not opting out because that hurts me. I could keep the interest rate I have and would pay down my card at that rate but the account would be closed and my credit score would shoot down 100 pts just like that through no fault of my own. IS THIS FAIR? I think not!

RISING GAS PRICES

Why? Refineries need to be boosting supplies, not stiffling them. This is the summer, places on the East Coast and around the Gulf need to have back up supplies in case of hurricanes etc. We go through this BS every year. The cost of Gasoline is what helped along the fall of the economy last year. People were putting their bills in a hat and deciding what got paid that way. When Gasoline is 3 and 4 dollars a gallon, we are all curbing how much we can actually be in the car. People were deciding to pay for gasoline to get them to their jobs instead of paying for their meds and their food and even their house payments in some instances. Don't let that happen again Mr. Obama. WE all know you suck but you can protect us from this crap happening again. DO IT! Stop the gouging and the speculation over oil and allow the refineries to pump more supply so we don't have to depend on foreign countries for it again and agree to their pricing. WE can' afford that. In case you haven't heard.. unemployment numbers, Foreclosure numbers and inflation are all up right now.. ON YOUR WATCH OBAMA. Do something about it.!!!!


Help the common folk to fill up their tanks for less than their car payments. Help people to get to work and keep taking their medicine and pay all their bills. Having such a big chunk come out for Gas expense just isn't fair or planned on. Can't be planned on. I have watched our gas prices here go from just over 2.00 just a month ago to a high here of 2.69... In a month.... That is insane!!! Do something about it now... Not when people are hurting even more. We know you don't have to worry about paying for gas for your Obama mobiles or airplanes or helicopters but the rest of us don't think we are Princes or live like one.

OBAMA POLL RESULTS

Thank you for taking the poll:
Do You Support President Obama?. The poll results are listed below.Special note: The poll results may include data for questions that were not included on the poll that you took.
Do You Support President Obama? (103,618 Respondents)


What is your opinion of Barack Obama?
Favorable
35,704 (27.23%)

Unfavorable
95,421 (72.77%)


Do you currently support President Obama's domestic policy agenda?
Yes
33,033 (25.33%)

No
97,352 (74.67%)


Do you currently support President Obama's foreign policy agenda?
Yes
34,109 (26.22%)

No
95,958 (73.78%)


Describe your view of President Obama since the election:
More conservative than I expected
5,401 (4.13%)

More liberal than I expected
38,809 (29.65%)

Just about what I expected
86,684 (66.22%)


Do you want President Obama to succeed?
Yes
59,111 (45.86%)

No
69,795 (54.14%)


Who did you vote for in 2008?
McCain
83,514 (64.45%)

Other
13,563 (10.47%)

Obama
32,493 (25.08%)

Michael Savage fighting back about BS PC Ban

US radio presenter Michael Savage, who has been placed on a list of people banned from entering the UK, describes himself as an "explosive conservative radio talk show host".
A so-called "shock jock", Savage hosts a nationally-syndicated right-wing talk show, The Savage Nation, reaching an estimated eight million US listeners a week.
That makes Savage - real name Michael Alan Weiner - the third most popular radio host in the US.
Savage's self-described "brash commentary and unapologetic solutions" are carried across US airwaves by hundreds of radio channels from his home station, KNEW in San Francisco.
Brash commentary
In his 10 years at the helm of The Savage Nation show, he has offended groups including gays, Muslims, women and immigrants - to name a few.
The 67-year-old has urged Americans to "burn the Mexican flag on your street corner" and attacked autistic children as "brats" in need of discipline.
He has also described the Islamic holy book the Koran as "a book of hate" and told Muslims: "Take your religion and shove it up your behind."
He later defended the remarks on autism and Muslims as having been taken out of context.
He was fired in 2003 after a brief stint at US cable TV channel MSNBC for saying on air to a caller: "You should only get Aids and die, you pig!" He later apologised.
The remarks have sparked angry protests from rights groups on several occasions, and even prompted some advertisers and radio stations to pull out of his shows.
Hitting back
The conservative political commentator has lashed out at his critics in the past, setting his lawyers on the US-based Islamic advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and suing the University of California for rejecting a job application. Both cases were later dropped.
Now that he has been included in a list of 22 people banned from the UK for fostering extremism and hate, he has threatened to sue the British government for defamation.
A scientist by training, Savage holds two Masters degrees in botany and anthropology. He also got a doctorate in nutritional ethno-medicine from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978.
Savage has authored some 18 books - both as Michael Weiner and Michael Savage - on topics that range from nutrition and alternative medicine to beer and politics.
His political book, The Savage Nation: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture, reached the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
Savage, who grew up in the Bronx in New York, now lives in San Francisco with his second wife. They have two children

This is very interesting. I invite you to listen to "the other side" argument against Global warming. This man wasn't permitted to speak in front of congress and present his FACTS congress or the American people. It would have made Chubby Gore look like an ignorant lunatic.

http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=5614

"Grandma" Reflections of a Granddaughter

GRANDMA

I wanted you all to know how my grandmother Betty was when we were all young. In short, she was the BEST! She and grandpa were pretty much perfect grandparents. I was born in 1960 to Jack, her only son, and Judy. I was pretty much spoiled rotten by my grandparents as I was the first baby. I had them to myself for 5 years before my sister Heather made her debut. Then came Brother Chris, followed several years later by Sister Julie. I have only good memories of my childhood as do my siblings. It's very much because of having my grandparents in our lives and so close to us back then. I feel extremely lucky to have had them live in the next town over and get to see them so often. We saw them ALL THE TIME.

I remember going to grams office (liberty Mutual) where she would proudly show off her grandchildren to her co workers. She loved us to death and would do anything for us. I remember all the weekends and holidays we spent together and all the New Years Eves we spent together staying up late, having shirley temples and icecream and watching the ball drop at Midnight. I especially remember the Lake property and spending most of our summers there with our grandparents. They would make everything special. I remember Grandmas Grilled cheese sandwiches and the simplest things always tasted better because she made them for us. I remember my wedding day (first time around) She was standing in the bathroom door as I finished getting ready... With tears and a smile and gave me a big hug and said... You won't be Debbie Olson after today. I will always be Debbie Olson though. We smiled and cried a bit . I remember the first time she met my first born baby girl. Jennifer was 2 months old when we traveled to NY. Gram and Grandpa were visiting my parents. Gram was the first one to run out and meet us in the driveway and she took my baby girl in her arms and was totally happy.

These are the memories I will hold dear and absolutely cherish. There are so many more it would take albums and albums to hold them and tell you just what my grandparents mean to me and all of us. No one can or will ever take her place. She was one of a kind. She was Strong, Emotional, Giving, loving, Gentle yet not afraid to speak her mind for sure. She was honest and sincere and quite honestly... The best grandmother anyone could have had as a child, teen, young adult and now a middle aged lady. I miss you Gram. I always will. I love you!! Thank you for being my grandma.

Deb

BO is the most ANTI CHRISTIAN, ANTI AMERICAN PRESIDENT EVER

The Staff and Students of this and other universities shouldn't have given into the White House request to Cover the JC (Standing for Jesus Christ) for this horrible man. I can't believe that a University founded on Catholic Christian principals would give into such a thing. Just goes to show how dangerous this man is becoming. We have got to stand up to things like this because it is just going to happen over and over again until Religion isn't even tolerated in America any longer.

Georgetown University Hid Religious Symbols at White House Request
Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, covered up religious insignia symbolizing the name of Jesus during President Obama's address there Tuesday after the White House requested the change.
FOXNews.com
Thursday, April 16, 2009

April 14: President Obama speaks about the economy at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall. The school covered up religious symbols bearing the name of Jesus during Obama's remarks at the behest of the White House. (Reuters)
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Georgetown University hid a religious inscription representing the name of Jesus during President Obama's address there Tuesday, FOXNews.com has confirmed, because White House staff asked the school to cover up all religious symbols and signs while the president was on stage.
The monogram IHS, whose letters spell out the name of Jesus, and which normally perches above the stage in Gaston Hall where the president spoke, was covered over with what appeared to be black wood during the address.
"In coordinating the logistical arrangements for the event, Georgetown honored the White House staff's request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind the Gaston Hall stage," university spokesman Andy Pino told FOXNews.com.
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The White House said that the backdrop, which included blue drapes and a host of American flags, was standard during policy speeches and other events.
"Decisions made about the backdrop for the speech were made to have a consistent background of American flags, which is standard for many presidential events," said White House spokesman Shin Inouye in a statement released Thursday.
Georgetown is a private Catholic institution founded by Jesuits in 1789. The auditorium where the president spoke Tuesday is adorned with religious imagery, but only the symbols directly on the stage -- those likely to be picked up by a television camera -- were obscured.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, accused the university of "cowardice" for acceding to the White House, and criticized Obama's team for asking a religious school to "neuter itself" before the president made his address.
"No bishop who might speak at the White House would ever request that a crucifix be displayed behind him," he said.
The White House insisted that the move was made only to provide a proper setting for the speech -- and said that "any suggestions to the contrary are simply false."
Though his advance team asked that the religious signs be veiled, the president himself took up religious discourse and discussed a passage from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount as he outlined his plans for an economic recovery.
"We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand," he said during his remarks, which came two days after Easter. "We must build our house upon a rock."
It was Obama's first visit to Georgetown since being elected president, but he also spoke at the school on Sept. 20, 2006 about the need for energy independence. A photograph of the event does not seem to indicate that parts of the stage were hidden during that address, which Obama made while still a U.S. senator.
Another Catholic university, Notre Dame, came under fire in late March for inviting the president to speak at its May 17 commencement. Obama supports abortion rights, which are considered anathema by the Catholic Church.