OK, why am I posting an article about Louisiana?\u00a0 It isn’t about Louisiana, it is about keeping in mind what businesses we will support, and that includes your banks.\u00a0 If you remember back a few years, Bank of America was giving home loans to illegals.\u00a0 Now they are at it again, together with Citigroup.\u00a0 Do you want to do business with these financial behemoths?<\/p>\n
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\nTwo of the nation\u2019s largest banks\u2014ones that wanted to do what was politically expedient after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.\u2014have found out that it\u2019s going to cost them some business. Louisiana\u2019s State Bond Commission recently voted 7-6 to bar Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America from taking part in a $600 million project to improve Interstate 10 and some smaller projects.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Jeff Landry and State Treasurer John Schroder had been working on the state\u2019s response to corporate gun control \u201cfor some time,\u201d according to state Executive Division Press Secretary Ruth Wisher. Blocking the banks from a share of the road and airport improvements is the first visible step.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs treasurer and chairman of the Bond Commission it is one of my duties to help hire financial professionals and not necessarily social engineers,\u201d Schroder said. The two banks, in the months after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, made it clear that they want to impose their anti-Second Amendment sentiment on everyone with whom they do business. Citigroup, for example, announced it would cut business ties with retailers that sell \u201chigh-capacity\u201d magazines. Bank of America, meanwhile, pulled out of lending money to gun manufacturers that make modern sporting rifles like the AR-15.<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally believe the policies of these banks are an infringement on the rights of Louisiana citizens,\u201d Schroder said in a statement. \u201cAs a veteran and former member of law enforcement, I take the Second Amendment very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
If banks that took public money when they almost went belly-up during the subprime mortgage crisis think they can just wantonly discount American rights, it looks like they\u2019ve got another think coming. Thank you, Louisiana. It\u2019s nice to see a state stand up to a bully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, why am I posting an article about Louisiana? It isn’t about Louisiana, it is about keeping in mind what businesses we will support, and that includes your banks. If you remember back a few years, Bank of America was giving home loans to illegals. Now they are at it again, together with Citigroup. Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,714],"tags":[1592,1561,1560,1593],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-rights","tag-2a","tag-bank-of-america","tag-citigroup","tag-politically-expedient","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n