Pay Paul-The-Credit-Card-Extortionist

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My two cents worth:
Over the years my husband and I have paid out tens of thousands of hard earned cash in interest fees. Credit cards have been our nemeses throughout our lives while raising 3 children. Now our grown kids are hitting the same struggle.

Sometimes, when incomes are not enough to live on, most turn to credit because it's constantly thrown in their face.

If the credit card companies were regulated and fair, this could help low income families, now and then, but instead these companies are allowed to bleed them dry.

There was a time before the Republican stranglehold on our country when you could deduct these fees from your income on yearly tax statements. But Republican Congress arranged to have that slight financial aid taken away.

My husband and I are barely squeaking by financially, in our retirement years and still we find the need to help our kids with their paycheck to paycheck lives.

My daughter struggled to go to college to become a teacher. She needed to intern for 3 months without pay and during that time she ran up several credit cards plus a personal loan to take the place of her salary. She is raising 2 children and had little choice to do anything else.

She made a payment to a credit card a day before the next 30 day cycle began and the card company did not count that as a payment made in the new cycle. The interest fees shot up to 28% because of this so called error. How can that be legal, yet it is. Now when she makes a payment, most of it goes to interest.

Those of us, at the bottom rungs of the income ladder need protecting from these vultures but do we get any? Not on your life! There is just too much money to be made off the backs of the low to middle income worker and that is thoroughly loathsome and WRONG!

Just an added note, we came to my daughter's aid on this bloodsucking credit card of hers and paid it off with one of our cards that gave us a promotional period of 10 months with no finance fees. It's just another robbing of Peter to Pay Paul-The-Credit-Card-Extortionist.
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