My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost.

[myrkul]

Oh he earned it... by running a business. What did you do today?

I worked for a business...

Funny thing is... I am retired.

So, which is it? retired, or minimum wage worker?

[ISAWHIM]

So, which is it? retired, or minimum wage worker?

Retired people still work. (Unless someone is paying for retirement for you. Or they squandered your wages to give you after you stop working full time.)

I work for fun. It sucks sitting around playing with yourself all day. Toilet-paper and vaseline is expensive!

I make my own schedule, work when I want, and put that money towards all my new toys. Now, mining, and trading here, I have more money. I just keep expanding. My only limit is the circuit-breaker box, at the moment. I am not paying $2800 for them to install another line to the house, and another meter. So I am convincing my friends to let me use their power, offering them free heat all winter and paying for any power I consume in the process. (Only two of my friends understand what I actually do. )

I am not 19 anymore, just for the record... I am nearly 40 now. (Shy by a few years, but reaching that point.)

What, did you think I was going to work for free?

[Scotty M]

Oh he earned it... by running a business. What did you do today?

...

And I borrowed a few thousand from Cypress... Not paying them back... They are a foreign bank... They can give me a bad grade on my credit report... What are they going to do, raise the value of the dollar menu again, to get my money?

Oh, so you're a thief and a parasite.

That explains a lot. I hope you don't have kids. It'd suck to have to makeup some bullshit lie to write on your tombstone just so they don't have to admit their douchebag father wasn't worth remembering.

"He came, he whined, he stole, he ate Mcdonald's, he died. He produced nothing of value and the world would have been better off without him."

Nice waste of life dipshit. The only thing you have working for you is that you're not the minority.

[myrkul]

Oh he earned it... by running a business. What did you do today?

...

And I borrowed a few thousand from Cypress... Not paying them back... They are a foreign bank... They can give me a bad grade on my credit report... What are they going to do, raise the value of the dollar menu again, to get my money?

Oh, so you're a thief and a parasite.

That explains a lot. I hope you don't have kids. It'd suck to have to makeup some bullshit lie to write on your tombstone just so they don't have to admit their douchebag father wasn't worth remembering.

"He came, he whined, he stole, he ate Mcdonald's, he died. He produced nothing of value and the world would have been better off without him."

Nice waste of life dipshit. The only thing you have working for you is that you're not the minority.

Well, that sums it up well.

[Kazu]

So I'm wondering where the 2K went. Any news?

[Fuzzy]

This coming from a man [who] lives off the dollar-menu at McDonalds. [...] I eat only what my body needs.

That's going to be a very rough wake up call someday 

[zocipro]

Real brutal thing as always hate the most, to count the people like an animals, not human beings.

[zeroday]

So I'm wondering where the 2K went. Any news?

They are still telling me something like "your request is pending review and will be answered soon" 

BTW my attempt to make outgoing wire (less than 5k) is refused again. They wrote the following

Code:

Referring to the payment order please be advised that this cannot be executed due to the following reason:
Following the recent Eurogroup Statement on Cyprus, restrictive measures have been imposed on Cyprus Popular Bank Public Co Ltd.

[Namealreadyexists]

So I'm wondering where the 2K went. Any news?

They are still telling me something like "your request is pending review and will be answered soon"  

BTW my attempt to make outgoing wire (less than 5k) is refused again. They wrote the following

Code:

Referring to the payment order please be advised that this cannot be executed due to the following reason:
Following the recent Eurogroup Statement on Cyprus, restrictive measures have been imposed on Cyprus Popular Bank Public Co Ltd.

Can you make transferes within the country? I am sure there are others in the same unpleasant position, which creates a fair amount of demand. All you need is an exchange to change your money into bitcoins locally, but the question is who would be willing to change his bitcoins into money stuck on Cyprus?

[Operatr]

It seems keeping your money in a bank is just about as safe as leaving it on a bus bench in a bad part of town...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeoGAPW3tk

Or perhaps it would be safer?    Try this experiment in Detroit and tell me how that works out as they near total bankruptcy


Sorry your funds are locked away in the great banking bureaucracy    This is sick

[myrkul]

Try this experiment in Detroit and tell me how that works out as they near total bankruptcy

Hmm. I wonder how well that would work? I be the average Detroit citizen has more moral rectitude than your average banker.

[BitshireHashaway]

IMHO the 700k is blocked as the 128k plus-some are the part that won't be touched.
you will not lose all the 700k, "only" couple of percent.

stop cryin, that's just TAX EVASION catching up to you.

And if you had an 800,000 EUR business, you would leave it in a country with higher taxes even if a few days of effort could save your business thousands of euros or more a year, and then you think its fair to have 700,000 EUR taken?! Taxes are a like a business people want to use what charges the least? It's called logic not Tax Evasion. If you live in the US, do you never file for a tax return?

[BitshireHashaway]

And if you now correctly consider that 700k a loan by your corporation to the bank instead of your corporation's money in the bank? Does that change your tune?

Banks give you access to your money whenever you want and give a higher return rate than what the OP will probably ever get of his 700k EUR.

[MoonShadow]

And if you now correctly consider that 700k a loan by your corporation to the bank instead of your corporation's money in the bank? Does that change your tune?

Banks give you access to your money whenever you want and give a higher return rate than what the OP will probably ever get of his 700k EUR.

The cause of this OP is proof enough that is not so.

[flavius]

I don't know how many times I have to say this but you cannot have a bank account in the world. You have to keep your money in the form of either cash or investments like collectibles or bitcoins persay. If you keep it in a bank, you pay huge taxes. If you live in a normal country where the banking system is much more reliable, aka not these weird european countries who aren't relevant, then they won't ever take your money, but paying the huge taxes automatically excludes that option.

[BazkieBumpercar]

Special thanks to:
- Jeroen Dijsselbloem

As a dutch man, I'm ashamed about him and I hereby apologize for that $^*@ idiot living in my country.

[Rampion]

I don't know how many times I have to say this but you cannot have a bank account in the world. You have to keep your money in the form of either cash or investments like collectibles or bitcoins persay. If you keep it in a bank, you pay huge taxes. If you live in a normal country where the banking system is much more reliable, aka not these weird european countries who aren't relevant, then they won't ever take your money, but paying the huge taxes automatically excludes that option.

They won't take your money? They took billions from US citizens to cover their holes... Where are you from? Don't you remember the "bailout"?

So YES, they will always take your money, they will make profit with it, and when their gambles go wrong you will pay the bills. And that happens in every "normal country" in the world.

[flavius]

I don't know how many times I have to say this but you cannot have a bank account in the world. You have to keep your money in the form of either cash or investments like collectibles or bitcoins persay. If you keep it in a bank, you pay huge taxes. If you live in a normal country where the banking system is much more reliable, aka not these weird european countries who aren't relevant, then they won't ever take your money, but paying the huge taxes automatically excludes that option.

They won't take your money? They took billions from US citizens to cover their holes... Where are you from? Don't you remember the "bailout"?

So YES, they will always take your money, they will make profit with it, and when their gambles go wrong you will pay the bills. And that happens in every "normal country" in the world.

In the US it is illegal for such a thing to occur. The bailout money was taken from the government, not from user's bank accounts. I remember I read something where a bank took 1 cent out of every account, and they got in gigantic trouble for it although nobody really cared.

They "take" money from citizens in the form of taxes, which I don't pay.

[wdmw]

In the US it is illegal for such a thing to occur. The bailout money was taken from the government, not from user's bank accounts.

Oh, the government paid for it, not the the people?  Did the government pay for it with their lemonade stand network?

[MoonShadow]

In the US it is illegal for such a thing to occur.

And yet, it happens anyway.  Worse, in the US the bailouts were added to the deficit, to be paid by my grandchildren instead of current taxpayers.  That's such an awful precedent I can't see any path back to respectablility for the US.  The current deficit is impossible to repay already, and continues to grow.  Default and economic breakdown are inevitable.

Furthermore, so many things are illegal in the US today, the average middle class American commits 3 felonies per day without their own knowledge of the violations.  The IRS scandal right now is proof that the average government agent is not aware of the laws that govern his own job, and that the basic understanding that picking on a group that you don't agree with is a felony was absent from the IRS.  It's also absent from the ATF, I've seen that one personally; and government agents tend not to listen to those around them who have a deeper understanding of the law.