American Express Paying Customers $300 To Cancel Accounts

American Express Credit Card Company has announced that they have offered a limited number of customers $300 to pay off their balances and close their accounts. The company says that in reviewing credit histories of certain customers they think that it is a better move than waiting for the customers to go belly up.

In light of the high number of people defaulting on their credit cards and home mortgages, American Express is probably doing the right thing. At least they are giving their customers an incentive to pay off their credit card debt, instead of their usually tactics of charging them higher interest rates until they break them.

Single Mother of Octuplets plus Six Looks for Money

California single mother of 14 is trying to find a movie, reality tv show or book deal. She has hired an agent to represent her and claims that her first interview will cost the network $2,000,000. I guess no one told her that Oprah does not pay for such interviews. She also does not realize that being on Oprah would bring her a lot of publicity and eventually money, gifts, reality tv deals, etc.

The single mother lives in a home that was purchased by her parents and has only two bedrooms. When hard times hit her parents they moved in with her. Her father claims that he will move back to Iraq so that he can get a job and make enough to help out his daughter. He probably just wants to get out of town and away from 14 children under 7 years old.

And where is the biological father in all of this. It is rumored that he is just a donor. The same donor for all 14 kids. Either way, everyone in the medical community is wondering how a single woman was implanted with eight embryos. Not to mention the fact that she has no job and no father for the kids.

Her mother, the grandmother of the 14 kids says that her daughter just really loves kids. Well, I guess so! Another eight kids for our welfare system!