Careful, 'Cause Certain Criminally Corrupt Credit Card Companies Could Crucially Cripple Country

Quotes from Huffington Post
The credit card reforms enacted by Congress and signed by the president last year are set to take effect on Monday. Unsurprisingly, credit card issuers have already found several ways to get around the reforms.
Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the bailout oversight panel, said on Thursday that the shortcomings of the credit card reforms show the need for an independent agency that protects consumers from the financial industry.
"[The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act] is a good first step but it isn't enough alone," said Warren on a conference call with reporters hosted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The credit card industry and the entire consumer credit industry is broken. We need an agency, a cop on the beat that is flexible and responsive."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/elizabeth-warren-shortcom_n_467295.html

Even before the reforms were to come into effect those bastards at the Credit Card companies had already figured out ways to defeat it. Elizabeth Warren was on Bill Maher on Friday night HBO, and she said of ten things in the Reform Act, the companies had gotten around eight of them already. The problem is not the Government, it is these thieves who pay the lobbyists to dumb down the Administrations...both of them, Reps and Dems. The only thing we can do right now is give the current office-holders the necessary screams and shouts that may encourage them to change the laws. It is our job to call and write them constantly, keep the blogs policing them, just to balance the noise the lobbyists are making...if we make some noise of our own then we can overcome the lobbying power of these Banking Gangsters ...thieves ...and take back some control. We must keep riding this Administration to reduce lobbyist numbers...eventually  to zero. We don't need less Government yet...just less lobbyists.