2013-07-04fool.com

``No reasonable and informed person would disagree with the contention that banks play an important role in society. Indeed, many historians believe that robust and advanced financial institutions were the reason that a tiny island nation like Great Britain was able to become a world power. And few people would disagree that American consumers should be more responsible with their personal finances -- though, this somewhat goes against the domestic consumer engine that's fueled the U.S. economy for the past 60 years.

At the same time, however, when a group of irresponsible, and now fabulously rich, financiers plunges the economy into the second-worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, from which taxpayers footed the bill to protect said financiers' jobs, I don't believe it's unreasonable for the average American to feel that banks should be more deferential in the way they treat customers. That is the issue here. And that, in my opinion, is why people hate Bank of America. ''



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