Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

Weve become a plastic society.

They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.