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Greed | 0
How do you sleep at night? With your all consuming greed. Harry Gee Collinsville, IL 62234
Your subject here | 0
You have lost your necessary civic responsibility and ethical behavior values--elements essential for your economic system to function. These losses have destroyed America for everyone else and thus you must reform yourselves and restore these values to how you operate while beginning to pay your fair share in taxes again and investing in your communities by small business loans, jobs creation instead of elimination, and returning your CEO and others' pay to a reasonable ratio with median wages in the community they are located in (far less than a hundred-fold, which is far less than current practices). Civic responsibility includes ethical investments limited to those that do not do major environmental damage or health impacts to Americans--thus never open coal mining or mountain-top removal ventures. J Angell Rescue, CA 95672
Chase/United Airlines Mileage Plus VISA credit card | 0
I have excellent credit and I applied and receieved a Chase/United Airline Mileage Plus VISA card because I travel a lot. TRICKS: 1. On the application form Chase/ United Airlines did not inform me the card had a substantial annual fee. 2. I wasn't informed, until I received the card, I had to charge $500 in approximately two months to get the advertised 25,000 miles. TRAPS: 1. The interest rate suddenly doubled to around 33% . I called Chase and asked why. I was told it was a "mistake" and they would lower my interest rate to 16%. 2. A few months later, the interest rate DOUBLED AGAIN! I called Chase again, and they informed me it was a "MISTAKE" again. I no longer trust Chase. I cancelled my card. Jesse 80018
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Enter your story about life in the 99% here. since 1997 to 2011 15 years struggle lost my job at bank of new york and since then no jobs with my skills corp American has becomming Greedy and Greed does Not Created... george santiago 11213
Disabled People's Program Cuts | 0
You who have committed immoral acts negatively affecting our economy have caused a climate where disabled people's programs are being cut back. People are going without eating 3 meals a day, without heat, without air conditioning, without help in their homes to keep them safely living in the community. Your greed has forced people who could be living at home with assistance into horrid nursing homes where they will surely die prematurely. Imagine yourself in such a place: alone, fed awful food, your things stolen from you, staff abusing you and even raping you if they choose and many other horrible realities of life in an institution. You have caused Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - all programs that many disabled people rely upon - to be on the chopping block for cuts we cannot survive. Think about it. marta russell encino, CA 91436
You're not doing God's work | 0
I know you think you're doing something so important for this country that it can't survive without you. But you're wrong. And we're making sure you understand that. America will only strengthen when your greediness ends. Dana Marascia 12047
Greed is not good | 0
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger The World is waking up! http://thrivemovement.com/ Steve 05404
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
The world is broaching a significant change. The Arab Spring, and a in August and Sept. (a month + or so a go), big anti-corruption protests and hunger strike went on in India that preceeded the Occupy Wall Street which started in late September but got noticed in early October. Then it spread to Europe where it seems to be violent in some places such as Rome, and peaceful in other places. The message has a consistant theme, in manifestations both big and small: it is about economics through economice disparity and high unemployment brought about through greed and legalized corruption through deregulation. The current deep economic recession was completely man made and could have and should have been avoided through maintaning bank and financial markets regulation. The Powerful banks got the law makers to dergulate markets where fraud became the norm and now we're stuck with bailouts with no "trickle down" effect and no hiring simply because the banks are in worse shape than they let on, due to changes in accounting rules that allow them to "cook the books". The fact that the bankers still pay themselves huge bonuses is a scam because they are still virtually insolvent. That is, if we went back to the pre FASB 157 accounting rule days, they would not have any capital. The whole thing is a scam and we need to get the banks to come clean and regulators to enforce with impunity, without being afraid to do this. Calling the FBI to arrest and to jail the corrupt former and currernt CEOs and senior managers of the financial instutiions and banks will send a message to the industry that 'if you do the crime you will do the time.' The banks need to get new management teams in order to come clean and reform. However, the banks are still up to their old tricks and doing the same old thing with a few minor changes. Perhaps Morgan Stanley is trying to do the right thing...? ( But they need to prove it to the public). It's Time to Clean up the system. That's what the protets are really about: bew beginnings. So, GOP leaders who voted for deregulation and are against passing job ceation bills-- you days are numbered! CEOs that benefit from corrupt practices--your days are numbered. The perpwalk is coming!! Angela McGuire 10025
We've been here before! | 0
"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution." Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father. Ricki Newman 47630
Hey cats on the top | 1
Its time to start giving back to all of us who have helped propel you to the top of your game. It's time for you to quit stashing away our/,your money and to start spending it again to get this country back to the strength of the Clinton years. Let's all get real, we are in this together, no one is insulated by greed. Just remember your legacy and what your family will have with your memory. You need to be up front and honest.you can't take it with you. Fed up in Colorado, Lynn Gray Lynn Gray Durango, CO 81301
We need Jobs | 0
You represent the 1% of Americans that can best afford to pay their fair share of taxes. Please support any action that will help the other 99% of Americans. Harry Richardson Albuquerque, NM 87122-2719
RICH PEOPLE | 0
A TIME WILL COME WHEN THE POOR HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO EAT BUT THE RICH- TASTES LIKE CHICKEN STEVE BANYAI PORT MANSFIELD, TX 78598
Theft | 0
I am 66 years old - disabled from MS. My wife also has several severe medical conditions. We have no source of income other than SS and our own savings. Our savings were massively impacted by the 2008 bubble burst that you engineered by attending to your own selfish, and immoral, quest for personal gain. We have destroyed the so-called "middle class". You have stolen my health, my money and my future! You bask in the benefits of your actions while the rest of us reap sorrow, darkness and despair. How do you live with your self? Matthew Drew Des Moines, IA 50316
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
How can this movement amend many of the pointless regulations that allows the 1% to steal from the 99%? If the focus on a specific agenda targets the root of the problems only then will the 99% reap long term benefit from this demonstration. If those in Congress refuse to consider the unfair treatment of the 99%, how can we replace them? If the 99% is going to face the same unfair structure as we do with the electoral vote overriding the 99% vote, during a Presidential race, then more focus needs to be instilled on the real core issues. Let’s not invest our energy addressing general issues and amplify the critical laws that allows the 1% to legally steal from the 99%. Time to open social media outlets to discuss what these undesirable laws are. Victor Suarez 10710
Responsibility for your behavior | 0
Up until last June I worked with disabled children in an alternative school setting. My job was to assess those approaching graduation in order to help them in obtaining employment. Without these assessments these children will most likely end up on public assistance. These kids were from every economic background and were from six counties and two states in the Ohio Valley. Because of the recession the program was cut, so when you complain about people living on assistance, you can thank yourselves indirectly for placing them there. For six years, I was able to help these kids obtain jobs which made them independent. They would never be rich, but they could stand on their own two feet. Now, they aren't even trying because even their parents can't find jobs. You may not think much of me, but until you took it away, I was a better job creator than you folks will ever be. Rene 41014
The greedy few | 0
It's high time that corporate officers and board members stop rewarding themselves with obscenely high salaries, bonuses and stock options. There is no ethical reason for the huge pay disparity between upper management and the average worker, except out right greed. No you're really not worth the compensation that you get. Get over it! To all you board members, stop propogating the greedy CEO image. Enough is enough! Joseph Bohan Rye Brook, NY 10573
The green of plants keeps us alive, not greenbacks | 0
All the money in the world can't replace the life support systems all of us need to survive. joyce banzhaf grass valley, CA 95945
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Last May, my husband was "laid off" from his job of 16years as an editor for a nonprofit organization. He has been unable to find work since that time, although he has sent out numerous resumes and applications for work. When he lost his job, we lost our family health insurance (we have a teenage daughter) and have had to spend over $1,000 a month for COBRA. In June, my employment at a NYC-funded program run by a nonprofit organization was terminated because the agency was not recontracted by the city. I was fortunate enough to be hired to do the same kind of work by another nonprofit organization. By the way, I am a supervisor at a social service agency working with families with at-risk youth. The economic situations of these families are more dire than you can imagine--many of them have benefited from the "Work Advantage" program that promised to pay their rent for one to two years while they tried to get on their feet financially. This program has suddenly been terminated by NYC because NYS has terminated the funding (a result, no doubt, of the "financial crisis"), and many of these families are now months behind in their rent and will need to enter the shelter system if funding for the program is not forthcoming. One might think, "what does this have to do with me?" but even if you have that mindset you need to realize that these children are growing up with limited opportunities (education funding has also been reduced) and will become tomorrow's social problem if these inequalities are not corrected. Justine Gottlieb 10025
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I am a 74 yr old retiree that still works part time because I cannot survive on my SS and pension. But, mostly, I watch my children struggle to make ends meet and have two grandchildren with their college degrees that cannot find a decent job. Lastly, I am outraged every time I hear this nonsense about not raising the taxes on "job creaters" your taxes were lowered 11 plus, years ago and where are these so called jobs being created. You lay off people by thousands and make those who are still working in your companies work longer and harder, while you continue to enrichen the top people. You do not give a damn about the country that enabled you to prosper or about the people who buy/use your services, you're disgusting!! Lydia Ritchie 11968
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Only FIVE other countries in the entire WORLD have a bigger income discrepancy between CEO and average worker pay. Wall Street SHOULD be ashamed of themselves, but they are not. After being BAILED OUT due to their own FAILURE, they want MORE MORE MORE and they don't care how many people DIE due to lack of housing and health care!! SHAME! Valorie Valo 97062
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
My husband has leukemia. We have Medicare but cannot afford the cost of the chemotherapy he needs to live. So, I guess the fat cats on Wall Street, who have superb healthcare policies for themselves, will let him die. Then I read the CEO of Merrill Lynch spent $1.2 million on decorating his OFFICE. Yes, Merrill Lynch, the same company that is foreclosing on our home since we cannot pay back the measly $20,000 more we owe on our home equity loan. Now- mind you- we have already paid back almost $90,000,00 on the $ 50,000.00 original loan. That does not seem to be enough for these cruel thieves. They have refused to negotiate and want to put us in the street. Oh, wait. I guess I contributed to this guy's office decor. Will he contribute to the cost of my husband's coffin? I think not. Joyce Spector 13755
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I am lucky. I was a whistleblower when I worked full-time as a secretary at Columbia University while I was studying towards two graduate degrees there at night part time. I was barely making ends meet and had huge student loans from my undergraduate degree and another previous graduate degree. Unlike most whistleblowers, I was lucky to not get fired and to have the FBI support my case. Unlike most whistleblowers, I did not have my life ruined by doing the right thing. I was eventually given an amount of money by the FBI for my whistleblowing of a Qui Tam case which enabled me to pay off my enormous student loans and put a down-payment on an apartment. I then had a great career for several years. However, I developed disabilities and can no longer work. Because ADA and EEO laws are not enforced and have no teeth in the US, I was horribly harassed in workplaces because of my disabilities even though this is unlawful. Again, I was extremely lucky that I had an excellent long-term disability policy at my last job, so I am able to live on disability from that policy and from social security disability and not have to live in poverty. I am very aware that if I did not have this private policy, I would be living in poverty. I am 44. I am very lucky that I can afford my COBRA for my health insurance. In less than a year, I will be on Medicare. I am part of the 99%. I am a lucky part - only from sheer luck am I not living in utter poverty and do I have my debts paid. Because labor laws are frequently not enforced, people are harassed, discriminated against, unlawfully fired and retaliated against for no good reason, for who they are, for standing up for their rights, for trying to unionize or for doing the right thing and blowing the whistle. I have dedicated my life to fighting for justice in the workplace! Please see my petitions at http://www.WorkplaceCredibleActivist.wordpress.com and sign my workplace petition at the WhiteHouse website: http://wh.gov/gMG. The WH website is glitchy - please do not give up. I also have this longer petition: Demand Legal Compliance @ Work http://chn.ge/bO31L8 We MUST demand that our rights be upheld in workplaces, that all US labor laws be enforced, and that all whistleblowers be protected. Whistleblowers save lives and money. When labor laws are violated and people lose their jobs when they shouldn't, this contributes to poverty and destroys lives. The harassers, discriminators, union-busters, and retaliators are the ones who should be fired - whether they are in private industry, non-profits, academia or government. What happened to Shirley Sherrod happens every day to thousands of American workers - they are unlawfully fired - but UNLIKE Ms. Sherrod, they are NOT reinstated and do not have anyone on their side. In the US, there is only justice under our labor laws if one can afford a lawyer - and most cannot afford a lawyer. I have been lucky; I have been able to afford excellent labor lawyers when I needed them. Those of us who have been able to do this and who have been lucky have an obligation to help those who cannot afford labor lawyers. I have FREE sample memos on my blog for people who are being harassed, discriminated against or retaliated against to use in workplace situations. There are no guarantees; I am not a lawyer. But I am a workplace expert and an author. I don't care if you buy my book. Get it for free at the library - but SPEAK UP at work when your rights are being violated. That is the only way our rights will not disappear. We are the 99%. Even though I've been very lucky and am not living in poverty, I am not wealthy, and I am still part of the 99%. I have been sexually harassed, harassed because of my disabilities, harassed for making OSHA complaints when a man was electrocuted in front of me as I worked at Columbia Univeristy, and I was a whistleblower about Medicaid fraud at Columbia University. I am the 99%. And, chances are, so are you. We MUST help each other; we MUST speak up! Solidarity! Occupy Wall Street! Occupy America! I hope we re-electe President Obama AND a progessive Democratic congress; The GOP will destroy this nation. Denise Romano 10014
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Fulfilling a dream, I attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC and graduated in June 2007 as a Certified Health Counselor. When the economy tanked in the fall of 2008, I was well on my way to creating the business I truly loved. In October of 2008 I lost all my clients and today I am struggling to support myself because Social Security is not enough! Young people have difficulty being hired, never mind a senior citizen who must work in order to live. I have worked all my life with an old fashioned work ethic. Where are your ethics? Marcia Gordon 19382-6346
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Enter your story about life in the 99% here. I work 40 to 60 hours per week at my main Job, building tires. I struggle to help my family and relatives make ends meet. I over pay for fuel, heat power and food, because speculators can and do manipulate the markets and futures of these goods and services. The people on Wall Street do not and have not shared the blame, for their errors in judgment and risks, that have cost retirements, devalued home prices and a rise in the cost of daily living for the average American. If that were not enough for The average American like me to swallow, the people who caused the problems and who should be held responsible are not. They instead get tax breaks, bonuses, shelters, and loop holes we do not receive. That is the tip of the iceberg. The politicians Wall Street supports, protect those who caused the economic problems, do everything they can to block any form of regulation that would prevent a repeat of the same actions that caused this mess we find ourselves in. It is time to make it clear, that business as usual is a thing of the past and the 99% of us that have taken the shaft for the actions of the 1% are not going to take the current situation without a struggle to right what is wrong. It is time to take America back to what it was, and that may well mean forcing politicians to refocus on jobs and passing the jobs bill to get more Americans paying into the tax base. Sincerely Charles Wagner, Tonawanda NY 14150 Charles Wagner 14150
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Enter your story about life in the 99% here. I don't blame the banks for my financial hardship it was actually persons in the music business and a conflict of interest with larger law firms that prevents me from suing additionally those that used my work as an opportunity for self gain. I also have respect for Chase Bank of all the banks as they engage continually in arts related philanthropy as donors, and had it not been for their stipend program, and a grant made available to me as an artist my pursuits could not have existed. Large corporate law firms such as Mcdermot, Will and Emery; Davis, Polk and Wardwell and lastly Winston and Strawn (Chicago) also helped my career through the VLA (Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts) I made music about corporations taking over society and the people who assisted in saving a portion of my work due to copyright infringement are from the very sectors I "arted" on as I recorded music about corporations. I am truly grateful for their time and assistance, my sentiment is not bitter. There are many misperceptions about what others do or have, and assumptions can be dangerous. I wouldn't mind a million dollar bonus myself (LoL). None the less I suggest the "banksters" and those who profited find something to work with to assist others in order to relieve burden across the board. Plenty of non for profits are struggling presently and organizations could use a boost. Even mine titled "Partakers" a sponsored project through "Fractured Atlas" is a 501.C 3 non for profit status- donations are considered charitble and tax deductible when permitted by law. I even felt bad using my situation personally here-but such is the nature of this. Honestly I think of those that profitted should find a way to do at least something or make ammends, its a headache at this point. Kind regards. MikeAlike (independent recording artist/writer) Michael R. Juliano 11221
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