Why aren't consumers more discriminating?

Of course the answer is in Washington and as a politician I need your money to get there so I can get to the root of the problem. Once I’m in Washington I will use your money to fund my own agenda (travel, vacation, private school for my kids, etc.etc.). If you so happen to get to me via telephone in my office, I will tell you to be an informed consumer, talk to the bank and see if they will do business with you under your terms.

“There are plenty of banks out there that will do business with you under your terms.”
That is what they have you believing.

@ChazMaz All you have to do is shop around. I have been doing it for years.

Going from one snake oil salesman to the next.

If you need 10 of something. You are offered 4, but you shop around and get 6.
You are still 4 short. Better, looks good on paper. But still a compromise, for the benefit of the banking institution..

Use the word informed and you’ve already lost the majority of the general public.

We are sheep. Easily led, largely ignorant, and more interested in blindly following sound bites and slick ads than in actually using that grey jelly between our ears.