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We left BofA just before the bailout; moved everything to PFCU and haven't looked back. PFCU isn't exactly "neighborhood" but they're close (for the military community anyway) and they've treated me right for 20+ years so it was time to reward them with the rest of our business. My rationale was similar to that of the author - smaller, more principled, and a more responsible business model. Based on other's comments in previous threads, I'm assuming USAA engenders similar loyalty. The funny thing is - the wife is the one who actually closed our accts at BofA. When she announced her intention, the female account executive she was dealing with closed the door and they had an "extended" chat. Seems she was nervous too, for the same reasons, and she worked there!
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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