Yep, I bank with these people too. They take every

Yep, I bank with these people too. They take every change they get to zap you with a fee / charge. Dirtbags.

I have a bad feeling about all the banks that took or were forced to rake TARP money, the big ones in particular.

I think the fed govmint put a clause in the contract of the loan stating that they will be able to access individual account holders monies if needed. Like in the article, you wake up one morning and 1/2 of your money is gone. I mean everything, CD's, 401k's, everything.

I know the great state of Commiefornia can take $300 from every one of the Ca. residents bank accounts in an emergency. If your balance is $0.00 then it will be -$300 when they get done. Times the number of accounts you have too.......not just one of them.

Get a safe, a big heavy one, and buy gold / silver. If you are going to keep cash in the safe, keep the withdraw slip with the money as the cops can come in and take the money as if it were not yours. So you need a record of the withdraw.

Try and use a bank that didn't take TARP money from the feds.

And all this on top of the taxes.