Comments on: Where is the Taliban when we need them?

By: problembear

problembear — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:22:27 +0000

the devil is in the details, klemz. game is every wednesday night and he better show up. he owes me big time….

By: klemz

klemz — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:02:25 +0000

I heard the Devil might be here. Satan, are we still playing cards Tuesday?

By: Payday Loan Legislation Needs Your Attention Now « 4&20 blackbirds

Payday Loan Legislation Needs Your Attention Now « 4&20 blackbirds — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:39:03 +0000

[...] excellent piece to read is problembear’s Where is the Taliban when we need them?. Problembear has also done up this post

By: problembear

problembear — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:18:56 +0000

nothing official yet, Bob. but i will post as soon as something gets cranked up well before the next legislative session. probably after the elections. Ohio just passed a new law limiting it the same as the military federal law- 36% . lots of support from both demos and repubs on this though, so it should be fun. thanks for the interest. these places degrade our state and create much more disastrous results than ever gets reported simply because everyone who uses them is ashamed to admit it. i would guess that pat day loans/vehicle title loans may account for at least 40% of the most difficult poverty cases in Montana.

By: BobFunk

BobFunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:29 +0000

^ If you know, of course.

By: BobFunk

BobFunk — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:04 +0000

I know I’m about a month late on this, but, in any case, thank you for this post. While it was horribly depressing to read a real-life account of this predatory industry, it was enlightening.
Why is our economy in a mess? Has a lot to do with predatory creditors and speculative markets – this is ground zero.

Thanks. Do you know of anything that is being done in Montana to counter this? Please let me know.

By: problembear

problembear — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:33:24 +0000

if you could actually read I would point to the wall street journal article that i linked to in the above article but since you obviously can’t i won’t waste any time with you. the montana state legislature will take this up in the next session and it will be regulated in 09. that is a done deal. with or without you. fair minded people of all party affiliations are lining up on this one. many of them are outraged conservatives and the last thing they want is to find themselves associated with anyone who would support this heinous diabolical bunch of slime devils. you can quote me on the prediction after the legislature adjourns and our seniors and disabled on social security are protected. I see you have no link to visit so go crawl back under the rock you came from.
but please feel free to keep commenting. I will put it to good use in showing our supporters just what it means to be mean-spirited.

By: signatureseries

signatureseries — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:56:52 +0000

Problembear is such an appropriate name, since you clearly have problems, and you need medication. You advocate beheading with a rusty knife? Having a payday loan in the town is the least of people’s worries in Montana—you are much scarier. Please see a psychiatrist soon.

YOU WRITE : “Not one of these customers even glanced at the contract before signing the papers. I took out my calculator and added up how much a 250.00 loan would cost if all you could ever pay was the fees. There are almost exactly 26 two week periods in one year. 26 times 62.50 equals 1625.00 for the interest charged on 250.00 for one year.”

Where is the call for responsibility on the part of the borrower? You’re saying they don’t read what they sign and that makes the lender the bad guy? And 26 weeks? Only an idiot keeps the loan 26 weeks—how is that the lender’s fault?

Clearly you are on of those liberal wackos that believes in not taking responsibility for your own choices in life. Blame all your problems on everybody else: mom and dad didn’t love you enough, businesses are evil because they make money, government must protect you because you’re too stupid to make your own decisions. They’re all out to get you aren’t they? Poor thing.

By: Loan-Shark Chatter Not Going Away

Loan-Shark Chatter Not Going Away — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:44:18 +0000

[...] local bloggers have been covering the issue of “payday lending” and associated businesses in [...]

By: problembear

problembear — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:25:11 +0000

it is a job. somebody has to do it. obviously the two above are not very good at their jobs. their arguments seem spurious, lazy and dashed off.
I don’t think we are dealing with the sharpest knives in the drawer here.
Since it is an election year i assume that most of the good lobbyist/spinsurgeons are being sucked up by the desperate lobby for gas and oil , Bush/McCain, and Rumfield’s little gaggle of defence contractors who are about to undergo intense scrutiny for their shenanigans.