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Reasonable Profits | 0
It's about being reasonable and sensible, as measured by the average US Citizen - not you Wall Street/Ivy League types who think you're entitled to swindle the rest of America and the world on your way to the Club. Your job is to invets in ways that crreate jobs for the rest of the country and to invest our money so that everyone gets a reasonable piece of the economic pie. James G. Dickens Thomasville, NC 27360
Game Over | 0
As a working class human being I hereby inform you that the rigged economic system game is finished. People the world over are demanding fundamental changes across all aspects of society -- a society that has been hijacked by the greed of the tiny minority. The change will come with or without you. As a fellow human being, I hope that you will show some intelligent compassion so the game doesn't become a, "contact sport." Please come down from your self-created pedestals and join the rest of your species in creating a fairer and sustainable world. Ralph 590-0403
Do the right thing | 0
Help us change the system so that you can focus on making the world a better place rather than just act out of greed. There is no honor in what you have done, but there can be. Join us. Susan Spang 12202
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
My biggest grievance is the rising cost of healthcare, although I feel like everything has gone up, from groceries to oil & everything in between. My husband and I pay for our own health insurance since my husband owns a small business & I work part time as an independent contractor. My main job is being a stay at home mom. I was diagnosed with cancer two years ago & the very same insurance that we pay for told us that they didn't cover the chemotherapy for my very treatable cancer. Thankfully today I'm in remission. My husband and I wonder on a monthly basis why with the two of us working is it still so hard to get by? We just want what's fair for all Americans, not just a small percentage. Sincerely, Jennifer Giuffre-Donohue Jennifer Giuffre-Donohue 11768
Shared responsibility | 0
Thanks to your irresponsibility, America is suffering badly. It's time for you to look for creative and positive ways to make sure that the tremendous concentration of wealth that you encouraged gets turned around. We can't have a successful economy if we don't all respect each other. Warren Buffet is pointing the way. What about you? John Gaffin Myers Flat, CA 95554
Attention: Wall Street | 0
I am tired of being taxed to the point that I cannot totally make my bills. You do not pay your share of the taxes. We need to tax you to the extent that you were taxed in the Eisenhower (IKE) era. We do not live in a feudal system where the rich get everything and we work to support your lifestyle, that is not what our country was founded on. You need to see and live in the real world and come down off of your high horse and live like the rest of the world and work for a living. You should go to jail for taking money from the workers and not returning anything to the very people that you have riden on their back to get where you are today. Revolution will be the next step as it has always been to correct injustice. Paula Marshall Barstow, CA 923611
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. John Pinezich Longmont, CO 80503
income concentration | 0
It's deplorable that income inequality has reached such an extreme in the United States and that the incomes of ordinary workers have not improved for 20 or 30 years. Lawrence Maxwell San Francisco, CA 94109-6574
Fitzgerald was right about the very rich | 0
In his short story "The Rich Boy" F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator says, "[The very rich] are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." In your greed, your cynicism, your fantasy-based sense of entitlement and self-worth, and the total atrophy and sclerosis of your essential humanity, you would be pitiable. *Would be*! If your psychopathology affected only you yourself. But it doesn't. Your apparent sociopathy and lack of character, combined with the similar traits of those who sit with you in the boardroom and those who aspire to sit there, do not damage you alone. They are destroying your fellow citizens, our democracy, our once beautiful land, our global ecology, and quite possibly humanity itself. You don't deserve mere pity, then. To an infinitely greater degree you deserve contempt and disgust. At best. You have caused many dreams to be deferred. You have allowed many other dreams to be grasped for a tantalizingly brief moment and then smashed them. How could one person do that to another and then still consider herself/himself human? Wayne Dickson 32724
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Dear Banker Pal, I had a short sale offer on my house, but you said "No, thanks". I wound up foreclosing and later found out you sold it at auction for less than my short sale offer! Brilliant! You also promised to lower my credit card interest rate after 6 months of on time payments, but again, you said no. Do you say "yes" to anything other than compensating your execs outrageously? Just wondering... Kent N 30628
I AM the 99% | 0
One day, the poor will have nothing left to eat BUT the rich. Shape up all of you 1%ers, or we will make like the Zombies, and come and *eat* YOU!!! Kristen Van Tassell Centreville, VA 20121-2569
Wall Street Greed | 0
Executives of Big Banks, You have acted in irresonsible fashio, were bailed out, and continue to make it extremely difficult for ordinary people to move forward, or eve meet their financial responsibilities as the housing market had been corrupted by your actions. This has left millions of people without homes due to foreclosure, in the process of foreclsure, or "underwater" in their mortgages. Honesty and commitment to real people should be banks' mission, not making the few very wealthy at the expense of the many. Jeanette Schneider Bishop, CA 93514
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Add my name and voice to those who advocate for an economy that encourages innovation, rewards hard and loyal work with livable and fair wages, invests in education and retools Americans. Too many on Wall Street have broken the rules, changed the rules, and moved the goalpost from hard working families. Wall Street's greed and arrogance have robbed millions of families of the American Dream they have worked and saved for. some of them for their entire lives. As the nation has been thrown into recession, perhaps depression, Wall Street executives & board members have dedicated themselves to give themselves & their elites exhobitant bonuses and give Washington politicians equally offensive amounts to rewrite or repeal the rules again. An through it all there has been no accountability, no judgement for anyone responsible for this global economic crisis. And so I add my name and voice to those who advocate for that accountability for their crimes, for judgement as to how their actions have affected our lives. Mirta Calvo 32603
OCCUPYtheBOARDROOM | 0
I am sending this message DIRECTLY to the BOARDROOM. But what I really want ito OCCUPY is AFFORDABLE FARMLAND. Nothing is more important to me than a HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT and an economic climate that is good for my kind of business--SMALL BUSINESS. The FAT CATS on Wall Street need to take a break from EXCESSIVE PROFITS and share the burden of this Nation's DEBT, instead of taking breaks on TAXES. PONY UP, WALL STREET. Guy Kilpatric Sharpsburg, MD 21782
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Dear Banksters-- I had thought to invest in my own computer-based business. I sank considerable savings into the start-up, established my corporation, and initially did well. Then came the meltdown, and I slowly lost my best clients. I was ineligible for unemployment, and went through the rest of my savings and stock portfolio to survive. Because of my age (57) I have found it impossible to find work, even in retail during the holidays. Today I walk dogs and cat-sit, receive Medicare and Food Assistance. I cannot contribute to my Social Security now, which bodes ill for my future benefit. I am hounded daily by creditors, and worry every month that I will make the rent. Thank you for your recklessness, Michael Carnevale. Michael Carnevale 10019
Your wealth | 0
It would be great if your greed could be medicated by your sense of concern for others and your country; HOWEVER, if not, remember if the economy goes under that includes your wealth as well. Hari Lubin Greenbrae, CA 94904
The Great Divide - lyric by Janis Ian | 1
Dear "men who worship pride": Come good people and gather ‘round Step out of the water before you drown Tide is coming swift and deep Gonna knock you off your feet There's a tide of greed that knows no shame and a tide of money that holds no stain A tide of men who worship pride and will not be denied While politicians lie and cheat to get to higher ground we follow them like sheep and salute them as we drown but no man will be king when all men wear the crown and there will be a reckoning from deep inside the rising tide as we tear down the walls of the Great Divide Come good people and gather here You who still hold freedom dear Step across the waters Bring your sons and daughters Some will sink and some will swim Some will walk on the water again Some will rise and some will fall Each one will hear the call While churches counsel patience and heavenly reward they sub-divide our nations by the shield and by the sword and every congregation has it’s pipeline to the lord but there will be no salvation and no place to hide for those who lied and buried us alive to build the walls of the Great Divide And oh, when the poorest of the poor come knocking at the door they will not be denied And oh, when those who took too much are stripped of it and judged then mercy will provide for the rising tide So come good people and gather ‘round Come and stand on common ground Raise your voices up and sing Let's make the heavens ring And you whose silence costs your soul Learn to speak or dig your hole Tomorrow's here and it won't wait No time to hesitate The tide's already risen. The deluge is at hand Don't sit there by the ocean while it sucks away the sand ’cause you'll be left with nothing but the memory of land while we sit high above the tide and watch the walls begin to fall as one by one our children wave goodbye to the Great Divide Keith Ranney Kula, HI 96790
the inequality of it all | 0
My husband is one of the uncountable Americans who lost his job when the economy crashed, thanks to the Bush Administration, and you rich, greedy 1%. First the job, then the savings, then the house, the truck, the good credit rating, etc. We are in our 60's, and have been good hard-working American taxpayers all our lives. I am sick of the inequality in America. In a country as well-off as ours, no one should be homeless. No one should go to bed hungry. No one should see their life savings disappear, or lose their chance to ever retire. You need to start doing THE RIGHT THING. Pay your fair share, like the rest of us do. AND START NOW!! Victoria Fairchild San Antonio, TX 78223
EQUALITY, FREEDOM & JUSTICE FOR ALL | 0
*ECONOMIC FREEDOM, NOT BONDAGE!! *EQUALITY IN LENDING PRACTICES, NOT DISCRIMINATION!! *REAL JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO PRACTICED NON-EQUALITY & BAD ECONOMIC PRACTICES, NOT HUGH BONUSES FOR THEIR BAD, SELFISH POLICIES!! Elizabeth Allancorte LaMesa, CA 91942
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Today a young man asked me for money to get something to eat in exchange for opening a door to Wendy's for me. A young woman asked me for subway fare at the entrance to a stop on the #4 train. Soup kitchens are booming. We are seeing more and more destitute people in our city. Meanwhile, the already rich got richer, and the system is designed to keep us apart so we don't get to know one another. Come down to Liberty Plaza and meet some of the brave young people who have been taking a stand for basic fairness and an end to wars that are bankrupting the country. Peggy Ray 10463
humanitarianism; equality; end the aristocracy/monarchy | 0
Enough eilitism and corruption. We could have a great life on this planet without the worst side of human nature always being in control. End this money obssession. Use money for doing kind good things not for personal gain and power and the destuction of people and the planet. How do you all sleep at night? God. Don't you get it? laura braggiotti 14620
Must be lonely at the top | 0
It must be lonely at the top looking down on the rest of us who can't find work or can only find underpaying jobs, don't have health insurance, and don't know how we are going to pay our bills. At least you have all your money and your greedy friends and the politicians you've bought off to keep you company. Chrystian Shepperd Everett, WA 98208
Must be lonely at the top | 0
It must be lonely at the top looking down on the rest of us who can't find work or can only find underpaying jobs, don't have health insurance, and don't know how we are going to pay our bills. At least you have all your money and your greedy friends and the politicians you've bought off to keep you company. Chrystian Shepperd Everett, WA 98208
When will you have enough? | 0
When will your profit margins be large enough to satisfy your greed? When will you have enough money to waste on yourselves, at the expense of the people who buy your products, wait on you hand and foot, take care of your basic needs, and make the products that make your life easier? Does all this make you feel better about yourself? Try it just once...look in the face of your of your bottom level employees and see the face of appreciation when you GIVE instead of TAKING. Taking will NEVER satisfy you. You will doe lonely, never knowing if people love you for who you are, or for your money. Listen to your heart. It wants you to give............ Bobbi Hildebrand Turlock, CA 95380
I support Occupy Wall Street. | 0
Show your patriotism and pay your fair share of taxes. Show us you differ from the robber barons at the turn of the twentieth century. JP Morgan Chase Investments illegally manipulated my aging mother, who is deaf, into signing papers she did not understand. They did this to move her assets into a different account, so they could get their fees for doing so. As a consequence, my mother lost thousands. Of course, that's no skin off their noses; their profitable fees are safe. They also refused her request to close an account — twice, also resulting in a loss of thousands. They are bums for whom I have no respect. I have to schedule time into my daily routine to argue with bankers; it's absurd. I figured I'd done everything right. I studied hard, went to a public university, kept out of debt, graduated cum laude, worked full time for 25 years, lived frugally, delayed marriage, married another hard-working college graduate, remained married for 22 years so far, delayed childbirth, limited children to two... and yet. My salary has never equaled, let alone surpassed, that of either of my parents (a teacher of English as a second language and a retail sales clerk), neither of whom graduated from college. Our living standards are far lower than that of my parents. We have minimal health insurance; it's all we can afford. We rent, we do not own a home. We've never owned a car younger than 15 years old. My company folded, and I'm left with no retirement. Despite a willingness to take on any work (I worked for the 2010 Census), I've been searching for full time work for over three years. I do piecemeal gigs to try to stay afloat; I work unpaid internships in the hopes of making contacts and landing a job. My husband works four jobs. We now work seven days a week, day and night, no vacations, and have been doing so since 2008. Our two children, who rarely see us anymore, are both honor students. But I worry we won't be able to send them to college. Is this the American dream? Bella Silverstein Studio City, CA 91604
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