The world is moving in a direction that everything needs to bebigger and better. Things need to be quantifiable to possessvalue.

Take for instance a recent entry in First Entertainment Credit Union CEOCharles Bruen's blog entitled "Too small to exist." In it headdresses a credit union theNCUA recently closed that had just 213 members and $175,000 inassets. Bruen suggested shuttering all credit unions with less than$1 million in assets.

I'm not sure how a credit union that size remains in business inthe 21st Century, but it served its members over the last 50 years.Personally I can't see how a credit union that small could providemuch useful to me or the people I know. Then again, I live in arelatively affluent area of the DC suburbs. Not Harlem.

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