Western Sky Commercials

Scalping, 21st century style. 

 

 

No...we are not customers - I just know who they are.

Those are NOT 'Payday Loans' and are not regulated, so they can tack on 'origination' and other silly fees that simply cannot be logically explained - and cannot be legally attacked (since they ORIGINATE in native american properties).  

 

 

Then they're just getting their revenge on people in need, not on the American government.  That's not really revenge; if anything, it's the oppressed taking on characteristics of their oppressor.  "You gave us a raw deal, now we'll give someone else a raw deal".

 

Their interest rates are probably considered usurious and might even be illegal.  But I don't know if their "sovereign nation" status allows them to do what they want.

 

 

 

 

That's a whole other subject.  I don't think all the government programs designed to help them, have helped them at all.  Most reservations are sh*tholes, and Indians tend to have a high incidence of alcoholism and meth addiction.  If this is the "help" we give them, I'd hate to see what "harm" would look like. 

 

 

Oh, I dunno.... I can imagine a scenario in which a person might need a quick couple of grand knowing they'll have the money to pay off the loan in another month or two, but don't qualify for a traditional bank loan.

 

Say for instance, a guy needs a couple of grand to buy enough materials & ingredients to set up a meth lab, knowing that soon after he gets a big 'ol batch cooked up, he'll be able to take it into town & sell it to a distributor for 3 or 4 times what he has invested in it, thus enabling him to pay off the loan early, avoid all that confiscatory interest & pocket a nice profit.

 

Sounds like good 'ol American ingenuity to me!!!

 

 

 

Since then I've been leery of any loan advertisement. Hell, even the military's STAR card is a rip off. I haven't used mine since about 2000 and I;m just now paying it off. That means the stereo and TV I bought in 1992 at the PX cost me a few grand! Loan sharks and credit cards are a rip off. Even Discover. I *had* a discover card....never used....in 2001. Got rid of it since I didn't need it. They wanted me to pay some "fees". Ended up paying them 600 bucks to get it out of my credit when I bought my house. It came out of closing costs but it irked me, too. I won't get another credit card ever. I thought Discover was somewhat legit. ( long story on how I got the discover card in the 1st place.)

There are many reasons to respect the rights of the Native Americans, but then again, sometimes they'll let it all go to all-time new lows, if one is stupid enough to not be able to control themselves on their land.