Can't be true under the new Obama administration -- all will be sweetness and light, milk and honey, open and honest and transparent, and gosh darn it, people will like them!

--R

LWB250 wrote:
My brother works for a small midwestern bank that is very well capitalized due 
to its conservative lending and investment practices.  He related this to me 
when we were chatting over the holidays:

The government is "offering" TARP funds to all banks.  They were told that if they 
participated in the program that the bank examiners would be very "lenient" when 
reviewing their future lending and banking practices.  Of course, if they participate in TARP the 
Fed gets an ownership stake in the bank in the form of preferred stock, too.

He said it was quite a contentious issue for them, as they didn't want to 
participate, and didn't need to, but felt that if they didn't that there would 
be negative effects from bank examiners and ultimately the federal government.

So they signed on, albeit grudgingly.

--- On Mon, 12/29/08, Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT A letter from GM and a response from an industry vendor's 
President.
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:15 AM

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--R wrote:
he said he would not have given the banks
a penny of "bailout money".
I believe that that program is operating correctly and
successfully -
if I am to believe the news stories.




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