[samstave]

My mom was a contracts law/construction loan specialist at several diff banks (key bank, wells fargo, Wachovia, etc)

The horror stories from her experiences were nuts.

They are all bad.

I met a Giannini in San Mateo (I went to school with his (great?) grandkids in Tahoe (they use to be dropped off in a bently each morning to north lake tahoe HS...

The bank consolidation has been bad.

I met Giannini in San Mateo, and he was telling me how "important family is"....

It was tough to hear how the most important thing is "family" from a billionaire who has never struggled with money and owns Bank of America.

Fuck banks.