Citi Bank may have stepped in it

[Pogo]

Sixteen Republican congressmen are asking the General Services Administration (GSA) to reevaluate a $700 billion contract with Citibank as a result of the the financial institution’s “anti-Second Amendment policies.” GOP Congressmen Target Citibank’s $700 Billion Contract Over ‘Anti-Second Amendment Policies’
Heard calls to pull their charter too.....

Jesus H. Christ!!!

Why the hell is everything these days seen through political lens??? That's just ridiculous....Everything's becoming "tit for tat" and it's all based on politics rather than on anyone's actual delivery (or ability to deliver) of goods and services in accordance with a contract. That's just incredibly irrational!

They think they're pandering to the unwashed. And they can't even get that kind of sleaze right.

The lieutenant governor (and governor candidate) in Georgia just pulled a stunt like that, when Delta Airlines discontinued an NRA discount. They're all posers who think they won't be called out for posing.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Tell me why we bailed them out......

Because functioning, modern banking systems are cool.

 

[depotoo]

It’s interesting to me to see the left supporting this discrimination, but not other businesses, when it is discrimination against their own beliefs.

What is being forgotten here is Citibank has a federal charter, something other types of businesses do not. Therefore discrimination against a customer is a federal matter, just as it is if a federally chartered bank were to discriminate against a successful gay business, simply because they support something they don’t believe in. The activities both are engaged in are legal entities and both have constitutional rights or are involved in a right protected by the constitution.

One has a federally charter though. The other doesn’t. Which should carry more weight.



Current functions of the Federal Reserve System include:[13][25]

• To address the problem of banking panics
• To serve as the central bank for the United States
• To strike a balance between private interests of banks and the centralized responsibility of government
  • To supervise and regulate banking institutions
  • To protect the credit rights of consumers