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retirement | 0
Your policies have tanked my 401k along with the economy making it impossible to forsee the retirement I planned for. Robin Smith 12528
Fairness | 0
I believe in fairness and I urge you to believe the same. I believe that you should pay your fair share just as I do! Enough is enough! Michael 17036
Theft and greed run amock. | 1
Your egregious behaviors over the past decade has brought us to this point. First you flushed our economy down the toilet, taking the middle class with it. Then you had to be bailed out by us because you were too big to fail. Then you could not see fit to make things right for the millions of your fellow citizens that you screwed to the wall by foreclosing on their homes and not loaning money to individuals and small businesses. At the same time you have continued to pay obscene salaries and bonuses to your executives with our money. We are coming for you, maybe not with pitchforks and torches, but coming nonetheless. You are all crooks and liars. Hayden Kaden 99826
loss of jobs | 0
Lack of oversight and investments in high risk futures with no rational basis other than making profitrs have created our economic bust. We must refrain from abuses that run contrary to good citizenry. chris collins 12409
Greed | 0
Have you really evolved into a breed of people without integrity, ethics or compassion? Shame on you for the blatant corruption. vana 98117
Greed | 0
What were your plans after you ended up with everything and we were left with nothing? Is that the kind of perfect world you greedy slimes envisioned ? Tom Davidson 93443
Justice & Fairness | 0
Either deliver up the criminals who bet on and then engineered the 2008 Crash and enriched themselves still further from the bailout among you (and I'll put money on most of you knowing who they are) to serious justice--I mean a properly LONG time (10+ years) at breaking rocks (NO Club Fed this time!) OR be viewed and treated as a criminal class!! Judgment is very near to you, so beware--and repent!! Make the market truly free and, hence, transparent and you may yet return to the respect and esteem of your fellow citizens. If not, then remember JFK's words on Latin America: "Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Brian Meadows 19380
PAY-BACK TIME | 0
It took a while, but we, the American people, have woken to your greed and corruption, your venal lack of regard for you nation and your fellow citizens! Ganesh 12208-3143
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
http://vimeo.com/30331068 Short video I did about the emcampment in Zuccotti Park. Jessica Vecchione 13782
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I am 79 years old, fortunately in fairly good health, yet I live in a big [3 bedroom, two story] house that I can barely afford to keep up. Fortunately a few years ago, before our economy tanked, I applied for and received a Reverse Mortgage so I don't believe I am at risk of losing my house. Yet, I can't sell it unless I sell it for a great loss and get nothing out of it. Other than my social security income, the only money I have is the $twenty-thousand Line of Credit in my house. I fear that should I have serious health problems, I will not be able to pay for it. Nor will I be able to afford to make necessary repairs in my house -- like fixing a roof, etc. Constance Young 12567
Jobless and homeless | 0
My friend Becca has been without a job for over 5 years. She is now homeless. She was able to scrape by over those years using her withdrawn 401k and her retirement savings. Those are now gone. She has went on job interviews weekly over those five years. She was in the middle class with a good job in Information Technology. You crashed America's economy with your criminal behavior and greed. She now is getting her food at the Thurston County Foodbank. She has sold her car. She has no health insurance. Washington State has slashed all programs that use to help those unemployed, homeless, and struggling to survive. America bailed your company out believing that you would provide relief from home foreclosures and to develop employment. Instead you have used those bail out funds to enrich yourself. America will not stand for your greed any longer. Larry Blankenship 98512
The Whole World is Watching | 0
Each of us has done things we are not proud of -- that don't comport with our moral beliefs. We sleep at night because we are distanced from those affected by our actions: we don't see the children losing their eyesight in factories so that we can buy cheaper goods or those starving because we put buying luxury goods for ourselves ahead of ensuring that people have enough to eat by sharing the world's wealth. Yet it is obscene that some of us (YOU) earn millions you couldn't possibly spend in a lifetime while others are out of work, out of food, and desperate. You DO bear moral responsibility, even if you are able to sleep at night. There's a way to change all this: commit to a wealth tax, or a top to bottom salary ratio of one to ten (top can be no higher, INCLUDING bonuses and perks, than ten times the bottom). Support change in fiduciary law and corporate governance so that there is quasi-public status and a responsibility to the earth's and not simply the shareholder's bottom line. Ensure that our citizens are not mislead by monopolistic and lying media entities like Fox News. Stop disenfranchising practices and stop corporate giving to anyone who engages in them. Of course you know there's much more than this, but since I doubt you'll really read or pay attention to this, I'll save my voice. I've bought myself luxuries before giving to the homeless and I'm not proud of it. I'll happily commit to improving my behavior and taking responsibility for how I treat the earth and its citizens if you'll pledge to as well. Carlin Meyer 10025
Return the money and all this will go away | 0
Dear Sir/Madam I'm sure this will find its way to your waste paper bin long before it is read. It is on the hope that someone, even one person, will read this that I am compelled to comment. Why are the 99% protesting you may ask? The world witnessed the majority of your corporations being subsidized by public funds with the understanding this was to protect our futures. After all, letting banks fail can have major ramifications for all of us. We grumbled, of course, but generally accepted it as a necessary part of globalisation to insure our future. What people are taking issue with is that instead of using this money to shore up defenses, re-establishing investment and rescuing the global economy we have seen you perform the exact same mistakes that got us into the mess in the first place: following high-risk market bets for quick wins. What I take personal issue with is seeing the rediculous bonuses and dividends awarded to top executives. Now, as a business owner, I understand the mechanics of dividends and the need to reward staff through bonus schemes but you are playing with money that does not belong to you. It belongs to the general public, through government bailouts, who will continue to pay for it through higher taxes for many years to come. If you believe this movement is just a passing phase that will disappear if you ignore it long enough then more fool you. If, however, there is just a small sense of morality within you, you will reassess your choices and make the necessary moves to bring back the much needed equilibrium: - Reduce bonus pay - Establish a firm date whereby funds will be repaid to the public. - Set aside dividends to pay into the country's budget (intrest must be paid on all loans, including the one used to refinance your corporation). And please remember, this is not an attack on you personally, this is an attack on the system that has created greed amongst your ranks. Greed that will, sooner or later, consume your corporation into bankruptcy long before we are silenced. I hope you make the right decision for us all Matt Matt C TE57 ING
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I was told I needed to go to college to get a good education and have a bright future. I chose a SUNY because I'm from in-state and it was the best and cheapest option. Regardless, I will be leaving thousands of dollars in debt with a degree that isn't completely useless, but in this economy will essentially get me nowhere. I'll be lucky if I can get a retail or waitressing job that I'll have to work at for a quarter of my life to pay back all my debts. Where is my bright future? Last year, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, received a $17 million dollar bonus. At the same time Chase has foreclosed on thousands of New York families. Where is their bright future? Hillary Anderson 10577
Businesses should support their country that supports them | 0
The Occupy movement is not your typical "political" movement - it is about to EXPLODE, based the radically disproportionate distribution of income. The disenfranchised and now whats left of the middle class are coming to claim a livable share. You can avert an ugly, protracted movement that activates every populist force and ends in heavy taxation of the very rich by spreading new wealth with a Capitol Homestead Act (see CESJ.org). Then you will solve the structural problem with capitalism without redistributing existing wealth, and become true heroes instead of the villians you are about to be permanently cast as. Rand Wrobel 94501
the future | 0
It was Lincoln who said that 'you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time but never all the people all the time.' Beware of the day when the American people will act on their realization of the damage your policies and machinations inflict on their existence. Eric Bloch 08043
Long overdue | 0
You have destroyed countless lives with your uncontrolled greed, and have pushed us to the edge. It has taken too long for people to rise up and say ENOUGH, but that time has come. You own our government, you control our media, but there are too many of us awake and aware to stand idly by anymore. Enough was never enough for you and your excessive greed has brought this on. No one but yourselves to blame. We are everywhere and we are united. Jenna DiFeo 89450
Greed to the extreme | 0
I have cancelled most of my bank cards and will do more with cash and money orders. I cannot in good faith continue to line the pockets of the greediest people on earth, while others are starving. If the greed were not so extreme, so over the top, I doubt this conversation would be happening, but when your salaries, +bonuses and shares AVERAGE $800,000,000 that is just disgraceful. The actions of the banks and Wall Street will change or the people will MAKE it change. It will happen one way or the other, but it would make it easier for all of us if it were voluntary. I cannot get a small business loan for my retirement business, even though my credit score is close to 800, I own my own home and have a fairly well paying job. All because of the bankers who have wrecked our economy. SICK just sick. Karma is a great equalizer and I would say you are all due a HUGE dose of it. Renee Still Day 81240
What are your values? | 0
There's nothing wrong with making money or having money. What matters is one's values. What are your values? Is it that you exist in a vacuum where you are not part of the causal network of the world? Is it that your actions don't effect anyone else? Inna Goldberg 11204
Thanks for looting my pension fund | 0
My brothers and sisters in the fire service work long, hard, and often dangerous hours keeping our communities safe. None of us has ever gotten rich doing our jobs, but we have been able to look forward to having a pension that would support us in retirement. It isn't charity. We pay into it everyday. Thanks to the unethical practices of corporations like yours- your resistance to any kind of regulation and accountability, your unethical manipulation of bond ratings, your mismanagement of sub-prime loans- the investments that fund our retirement have been severely compromised. We are far from alone. You have consistently put profit ahead of the well-being not just of individuals but of our nation as a whole. It would be too much to ask that experience some level of shame over your malfeasance. I would ask you to recognize, however, that a change is going to come. You can join in and help or you can get run over. The choice is yours. Grant Miner 92627
Not proud of you | 0
The history of the bankers is not admirable and has done grave harm to the middle class and prevented most from succeeding. It started with the corrupt practice of becoming a stock market instead of a bank and lending practices that harmed this country. Now, with the veterans coming back and millions out of work, and people's housing tanking-the country will be left to the very few. It's not the America we all knew=a land of opportunity has been destroyed by the top 1%. This has to change for the people to flourish. It's pure greed. Sheila Hoff 98053
Fair share | 0
The top 1% pay 40% of the income tax? Fine. What bracket is that, 38%? Do you know that under that arch Marxist, that wild-eyed Socialist Trotskyite Dwight David Eisenhower, it was 90%? You know, back in those terrible Fifties, when inflation was non-existent and unemployment hovered near the terrifying level of 2.3%? Those hateful days? What do the top 1% earn now? If it's 40%, does this seem fair to you? If it's more, certainly it's not fair. I don't know. I do know the top 20% earn something like 46% of the income, and pay something like 50% of the income tax. That means the bottom 80% earn 54% of the income and pay the remaining income tax. The past thirty years have seen a shift unlike anything before in our history of money from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest. This cannot continue indefinitely without serious reaction. I hope it's peaceful, but people are running out of patience. David Derbes 60615
Without us you are nothing | 0
Without the 99% you have nothing, and are nothing. No loans to make, checks to cash, no dividends to pay out, no hedge funds, no venture capital, no investments, no nothing. Because we live in a consumer economy now. The old economy ended over 100 years ago. Demand drives economies. Consumers drive demand. Keynes rules prevail now. Capitalism is dead. Social capitalism is what we need now - heavily regulated and stable, no funny business with the books. And no running congress. That's over, too. Consumers are the voters, not the money. We'll fix that, too. Wealth wasn't enough for you. You had to get greedy. You had to try and get it all. People have died as a result of your greedy games. People have lost everything, including their health, families, jobs, homes, because you wanted it all. Children live in poverty, seniors eat once a day, families sleep in their cars, because you wanted it all. You even stole our country's future. Thanks for playing. There's the door. You can see your own way out this time. And you'll be frisked by a bouncer, just in case you wanted one last thrill of pinching the silverware or something, for old times' sake. J.M. Moss 91351
lobbying with taxpayer money | 0
Dear Beneficiaries of the Transfer of Taxpayer Money, Your spending of money for lobbying that you have at your disposal only because of bailouts and corporate underpayment of taxes: STOP lobbying the government with OUR money! Yours sincerely, Beth Cain Elizabeth Cain 60201
Tony Soprano Would Be Proud | 0
If you've ever watched "The Sorpanos," you might remember an amusing scene from the fourth season premiere episode, "All Debts Public And Private." Carmela is trying to convince Tony to invest some of his cash in securities, particularly stocks. "Stocks?" Tony says. "You gotta be high up in the corporate structure to make that shit work for you. We don't have those Enron-type connections." Well, Tony was right. You know it. I know it, and the 99 percent knows it. It's time for a change. That change will happen soon, the easy way, or later, the hard way. Either way, change is coming. You might as well embrace it. Steve Dew 01267
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