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Take a gander at the picture currently being displayed on wamu.com’s home page. Maybe I’m the only one who sees the irony in this.

“Want to make saving easier?” asks the big silver pig with the blue Chase tattoo. Wow, Chase will help me save?! But, look a little closer.

The pig is fat, even comically so. It gorges itself because of its greedy, insatiable appetite for its customer’s money without concern of the consequences for its own long-term health. Instead of maintaining an ethical, healthy diet of fair interest rates and fees that could presumably go on forever, it would rather satisfy its current appetite by feasting on ever-increasing interest rates that exceed the definition of usury and outrageous fees even with the knowledge that at some point it’s going to end. And now, it is ending as the government works to pass Credit Card Reform legislation. Poor, poor pig. It guess he’ll have to go to rehab.

The pig has one huge completely open eye staring at you. Just stare at it for a moment. Creepy, right? It never blinks. It’s always watching you, waiting for you to screw up, waiting to pounce on you with the next fee to pacify its ugly habit.

The pig is standing tall with its ears forward, both traditional signs of dominance. The pig knows it’s in a strong position. It has …

• billions of dollars it can use to bribe the people writing the Credit Card Reform legislation aimed at protecting consumers,
• billions of dollars it has unfairly collected from those consumers as a result of its unethical business practices that the Credit Card Reform legislation is supposed to prevent
• and, billions of dollars the people writing the Credit Card Reform legislation borrowed against (and, presumably, on behalf of) the consumers the Credit Card Reform legislation is designed to protect to give to the pig in order to help the pig survive.

Simply put, the pig is too big and too important to die.

The pig has no mouth because it’s not interested in speaking. And why should it speak? Really, what would the pig say? “We’re sorry?” Hardly.

The pig is Chase.

written by cybercjh