Comments on: Homeland Security Alerted If Debts are Paid Down

By: Mrs. T. Swede

Mrs. T. Swede — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:38:40 +0000

I’m sure you’ve heard that earlier this year, most credit card companies raised the minimum payments that they were requiring their clients to make every month, sometimes by more than $100. They did this because they were literally holding people in irreconcilable debt that could never be paid off within their lifetimes. So now, I wonder if people were to all of a sudden not only pay the new higher minimums, but pay $100-200 more than the new minimums, would Homeland Security be allerted then? “Hey, you told me to pay more, so I did. Blame yourself.” Although, if it means being more American, I’d love to hold onto the money I’d otherwise pay to the credit card companies. But I suppose they wouldn’t like that too much, either. :p

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:59:03 +0000

Right. If they deserved a visit from a government agency, it should have been NIMH, not DHS.

By: Carl Vehse

Carl Vehse — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:56:02 +0000

“Walter Soehnge is a retired Texas schoolteacher who traveled north with his wife, Deana, saw summer change to fall in Rhode Island and decided this was a place to stay for a while.”

Well, that certainly would raise suspicions - A Texan who wanted to stay in Rhode Island for a while!