Big News Big Bank Big Celeb … Signs Of The Times

Are we beings distracted from news that is important to us by our Big News Media?

Bank of America was attacked from all side (including the Senate floor) because it announced it was going to charge $5/month for Debit Card use.

They were attacked because they were the first to do this dastardly deed … Right? … Wrong!

The reason BofA was attacked is because they are BIG.

BofA cancelled their Debit Card Charge on November 1, 2011 and now it appears that all banks have reversed this charge.

What’s that I said? You thought that BofA was the only bank that was evil enough to do such a terrible thing?

Actually BofA was one of many to participate in this new charge. Many of the banks instituted their debit charge before BofA. In my area, SunTrust put their charge into effect  in June. BofA did not start their charge until September 29th.

I guess that Senator who told the Nation from the Senate floor to get out of BofA must not have been well informed about the others who beat BofA to the wallet of the folks back home. The Smartfella thinks he should have started poking holes in the air when the first bank instituted the first debit charge.

The real evil here is not the Debit Card Use Charge. The real evil is that, while the Big News Media and Congress were concentrating on BofA, Big Media was not keeping us uninformed about real news that we so desperately need. Things along the lines of...

• Paris Hilton getting out of jail.
• Lindsay Lohan going to jail.
• Certainly Big Oil or Big Noodle or Big Box must have done something evil that we deserve to be informed about.
• Kim Kardashian getting married and divorce.

Hard to believe but Kim is overshadowing the other two Celebs mentioned above…

• A 4 hour TV Special about her marriage was watched by 4,000,000 viewers.
• The wedding cost $10,000,000.
• The marriage lasted 72 days before she announced her plans to divorce What’s His Name (that’s $1,388,889 per day on the Smartfella’s Money Well Spent Index).

Sure hope as much TV time is devoted to her upcoming divorce. Her fans deserve it.

Would I kid u?