$(document).ready( function () { talk_rendercallback({"enabled":"1","islive":"0","eid":5719,"total":"4","discussion":[{"nm":"Patricia Crowley","rs":"0","ms":"I was charged $39.00 for a 06 cent overdraft, & then a $35 service charge! So for a lousy 6 cents it cost me almost $80 dollars...It should be against the law!!","pt":"Jan 27, 2010 04:47"},{"nm":"Richard Sturtevant Sr","rs":"0","ms":"As a disabled veteran,and on a fixed income. I went to Citizens bank after monitoring my account online, for three months. I found out the bank was charging me an average of 200.00 per month in fee\'s. Then I caught something on the news regarding these practices. My curiosity turned into disbelief, and disgust.I am no accountant. But I was a business owner for many years,and I figured out with simple common sense, that they were not alone in this banking system, in the USA.I could vomit!! As a veteran,I am ashamed this has been going on in my country. It\'s as if the cop on the corner, left his beat, and went home!This system is designed today, to profit from those whom aren\'t as financially well off, as others.When I saw Frontline\'s program, it was so well put together and informative, there was some relief, that I am not the only one that feels this way. And it has been exposed. Now regulation needs to be implemented to the Debit card, as they have done with credit cards. How stupid do these banks, and congressmen, think the American public is? And I also think Bill Strunk is the biggest idiot since "Judas". How he can sleep at night, knowing he designed this for the banks to make money?  I don\'t want to be him when he dies.All for a bag of silver. "His paycheck"! ","pt":"Jan 27, 2010 02:13"},{"nm":"Rebecca ","rs":"0","ms":"Just watched \'The Card Game\' on Frontline this evening, and laughed out loud when I heard Strunk say, "I don\'t like the government dictating to bankers -- which is a free-enterprise system -- what they can charge for something. It\'s none of their business. It\'s a free-enterprise system. Let the market work, and it will take care of itself."  \n\nHow did he say that with a straight face?","pt":"Jan 27, 2010 01:41"},{"nm":"Mrs. Nick Harrington","rs":"0","ms":"If the free market is working in the banking system of the USA, why did they go to the government and ask the American taxpayers to bail them out?  Why did they play the "gotcha" game with their account holders? And why did they develop and market the esoteric products called derivatives, to name a few, and continue to sell them even now. The banks, in my opinion, have become a gigantic monopoly, interconnected throughout the world. The Federal Reserve is a private organization. It is owned by the banks and call the shots for banking and Wall Street.     ","pt":"Nov 25, 2009 07:24"}]}); });