Here’s a little something from Bloomberg about the struggles of those poor, unfortunate credit card companies. Keep your tears to a minimum, please.
You know, the companies that got a blank check from the Bush Administration to jack up interest rates, unilaterally revise credit contracts, levy late fees if you breathe past the payment deadline, etc.
I know the bailout is jacked up. But from this seat, I’ll be noting – carefully – any congressman who supports a taxpayer handout to the companies who’ve been looting the middle class on the Bush watch.
Well, it finally happened. I got my first invitation to Plaxo. Somehow I thought Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter would be enough, but no. Gotta do another site. Another password. More “friends.”
Enough already! Surely I’m not alone in thinking this.
Stop the madness. I want to get off.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be informing you on Robert Layton’s approach to business development in Wichita – once he accepts the Wichita City Council’s offer to become city manager.
It’s an offer that’s being discussed in every Wichita boardroom today, and not without some tongue-in-cheek thought.
One person I talked to laughed about the clear, conflict-laden split on the council between Layton and Sedgwick County Manager Bill Buchanan.
“It’s kinda like the scene in ‘Pulp Fiction.’ Can’t you just imagine them calling in Harvey Keitel (cleanup expert Winston Wolf in the movie) to clean up the mess in the board room?”