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Unsustainable | 0
I am a graduate of the RIT Saunders School of Business and a program manager at a Fortune 500 company. I've worked some of the hardest toughest jobs imaginable and am lucky to be a leader today. The best parts of my professional life have been about the people who work for and with me. Training people on customer service, teaching them about how to work together to solve problems, unleashing the creative in teams. But every year for the past 15 years I have watched my staff and my coworkers face harder and harder choices. Layoffs, health care costs, the balance of working and being home with their families. They dug our company out and have held on just out of loyalty and hope for that the future would bring them what the past generation got - full healthcare, vacations, stock options, bonuses, education opportunities, and a chance to work to a new level of responsibility. But each year it gets more stressful and they have more taken away. While you reap greater profits and make no concessions to reality. You stopped putting you people first. You forgot that you NEED your customers to do well and you communities to do well, so that you could be a success for the long term. We are done "toughing it out" and "being grateful for a job". We're taking back our power - as citizens, as consumers, and as voters with the power to change the legislation that runs this country. Change your path, or we will change where you are going. Cara 14450
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Enough Corporate greed, you are in position to do much good, but your behavior is that of the typical money hungry over zealous pigheaded and stupid antics of angry and "grown" children who are used to getting their way much to often! get the silver spoon out of your $U*%% and do the right thing for the people around you, not your buddies and board members. If you don't like the truth, PLEASE get out! debbie meritsky 14840
greed. | 0
It is time the richest 1% gave back to their communities. In the absent of a fair income tax system please consider how you can give back to the 99% from whom you profit. David Olivant Turlock, CA 9
"supply side" economic FAILURE. | 0
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell. THE REVOLUTION IS COMING. Nancy Currah Casper, WY 82601
Part-Time | 0
My husband was being cut to a four tenths position as a teacher. His 27 years of experience meant NOTHING. Thanks to Wall Street and the banks all the schools do is cut, cut, cut. His job was restored to full-time, but only for this year. What happens next is anyone's guess. We have three children, two have graduated college and the third will next year. They are underemployed and are not counted in the ranks of the unemployed. However, they do not make enough to live on and we supplement their incomes. We may never be able to retire. WE BAILED YOU OUT. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO REPAY US??????????? Jean 12503
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. After I saw how the collapse of the communist system affected our sister city of Uzhgorod, Ukraine, with the death of their "social compact" there, I fear that a similar collapse can occur here. It was not pretty! Their saying was "You pretend to pay us and we pretend to work". How are you going to keep a capitalist economy going without well-educated, motivated workers? Robert Stebbins Corvallis, OR 97333
Do the right thing | 0
Your company should pay its FAIR share of taxes with no loop holes to crawl through. You shouldn't get a bonus for doing your job poorly. It is your greed that has caused the downfall of our country's economy. Shame on you; do the right thing! Elizabeth MacNeil King of Prussia, PA 19406
You have miscalculated | 0
The thing that 's hilarious about your guys is this: if you had only stopped at a reasonable, prudent level of excessive greed...if you had reined in, just a tiny bit, your rapacious selfishness...you would have been able to go on plundering in plain sight a considerably huge fraction of our national wealth. And the vast middle class would have been ok with it, had we been able to continue to earn our meager share of sustenance. Instead, you didn't know where to stop. And when you passed the point of no return, your appetites set into motion a chain of events that has resulted in your being exposed as leeching parasitic mockeries of humanity. But then, I guess it was unavoidable. You wouldn't know how much is enough, so you were bound to exceed the point where people were content enough to turn a blind eye to you. No more. Julie Gervais Ferndale, MI 48220-3332
You make too much | 0
Share the wealth w/ the worker bees! Thanks- rob good Chester, MD 66092
Fairness | 0
Sorry!!! It's about time you concentrate on us!!! The hell with "Global" bullshit!!! Make America strong again!!! And also, "DO NOT LISTEN TO MITCH MCCONNELL!!! He's nothing but a Koch clone!!! Hope Baird Interlaken, NY 14847
Spreading the Wealth | 0
We have veterans coming home unable to find jobs, unable to keep their homes. How do you sleep at night? We have elderly who wouldn't be able to subsist if it weren't for their social security checks, Medicare, and Medicaid. Yet, so many of you are trying to dismantle these programs. How do you sleep at night? We have young married people with children who have lost their jobs and their homes because of corporate outsourcing for greed's sake. How do you sleep at night? I can go on and on of the destruction corporate greed has caused. It is not the public that has caused the uprising, it is the greed of the corporate leaders who never get enough and are unwilling to allow the 99% to earn a decent living. Doris Kelly 12538
inevitability | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. enjoy your perks while you can, 'cause they won't be available forever. leslie niquette west springfield, MA 01089
Now that you are People too...Welcome to our World | 0
We are tired of our money being poured to the top and only getting a mist back in return. Profits are up 80% on Wall Street yet job growth is only up 1% in the USA. It is time you paid taxes on the difference between the profits you make in the USA and your greedy attempts to farm that production/service labor out to the Global South (third world countries). Wars are fought on "open-ended" terms to make Libertarian Billionaires (Koch Brothers) richer. We have to live by rules and pay taxes. Since the Corporate Supreme Court decided your corporations are people too it is time you started paying our tax rates and living by our rules *(regulations)! Gordon Gerbitz Santa Barbara, CA 93103
The economy | 0
99% of us feel abandoned because you and much of Congress have forgotten who we are. We are the common people who work hard to take care of our families. We want to have the opportunity to work and make a safe home for them. We ask you to realize that our economy needs your help. Claire Cohen Lake Oswego, OR 97034
The lies the 1 percent want us to believe | 0
The one thing I have in common with the other 99 percent is that we will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent and the lies that tell. I'd like to quote Robert Reich, who says it much better than I. "1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and what happened? Most Americans’ wages (measured by the real median wage) began flattening under Reagan and have dropped since George W. Bush. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke. 2. Higher taxes on the rich would hurt the economy and slow job growth. False. From the end of World War II until 1981, the richest Americans faced a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent or above. Under Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 percent. Even after all deductions and credits, the top taxes on the very rich were far higher than they’ve been since. Yet the economy grew faster during those years than it has since. (Don’t believe small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax; fewer than 2 percent of small business owners are in the highest tax bracket.) 3. Shrinking government generates more jobs. Wrong again. It means fewer government workers – everyone from teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to safety inspectors and military personnel at the federal. And fewer government contractors, who would employ fewer private-sector workers. According to Moody’s economist Mark Zandi (a campaign advisor to John McCain), the $61 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House GOP will cost the economy 700,000 jobs this year and next. 4. Cutting the budget deficit now is more important than boosting the economy. Untrue. With so many Americans out of work, budget cuts now will shrink the economy. They’ll increase unemployment and reduce tax revenues. That will worsen the ratio of the debt to the total economy. The first priority must be getting jobs and growth back by boosting the economy. Only then, when jobs and growth are returning vigorously, should we turn to cutting the deficit. 5. Medicare and Medicaid are the major drivers of budget deficits. Wrong. Medicare and Medicaid spending is rising quickly, to be sure. But that’s because the nation’s health-care costs are rising so fast. One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid’s bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system. And since Medicare has far lower administrative costs than private health insurers, we should make Medicare available to everyone. 6. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Don’t believe it. Social Security is solvent for the next 26 years. It could be solvent for the next century if we raised the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. That ceiling is now $106,800. 7. It’s unfair that lower-income Americans don’t pay income tax. Wrong. There’s nothing unfair about it. Lower-income Americans pay out a larger share of their paychecks in payroll taxes, sales taxes, user fees, and tolls than everyone else. Demagogues through history have known that big lies, repeated often enough, start being believed — unless they’re rebutted. These seven economic whoppers are just plain wrong." Susan Jacquet Richmond, CA 94804
Chase and Citi | 0
I am closing my business account at Chase, and my 31 yr old personal account at Citibank. It's very simple: it is not okay with me that you got billions of dollars in bailout money, and then proceed to let go of thousands of workers and continue to scheme about ways to eek more charges out of your customers, ALL WHILE YOUR EXECS TAKE HOME MILLION DOLLAR SALARIES AND BONUSES. This has got to stop. Jean 10025
I support you | 0
Thank you for your courage and conviction. Things have gotten so out of hand in our country. It seems that people with money get all of the attention and the power. this treatment is contradictory to everything our country stands for. Not only is there widespread corruption, but the people with the power care nothing about the environment and the world as we know it. It is time that someone stood up and made them accountable for the horrible things they are doing. Sherry Reisch New York, NY 10023-3407
Let democracy live! | 0
You have ruined the environment and the economy and are rapidly destroying the middle class and forcing more people into poverty. Let's return democracy and equality to this world by paying your fair share of taxes, both as individuals and as corporations, acting ethically and morally responsible, and encouraging environmentally friendly means of producing energy and products. ROBERT SHERBURNE DELRAY BEACH, FL 33445
Unemployment | 0
If you can't provide loans, please provide jobs. We want to work. Martha Sheriger Fairfax, CA 94930
Environment | 0
Nature has rights. Vera Francis ME 04667
you are where you are because of others. | 0
we the people demand that you at the top 1% start to share what we the people have given to you. norma riccobene norma riccobene ocala, FL 34482
THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT | 0
Now the Tea Party has to choose a side. They have chosen (their corporate backers have chosen for them) Wall St. and the big banks. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds. Enjoy your cozy relationship while you can bscause the people are coming to throw you and your Washington lackeys out on the street to enjoy some of the unemployment that 10% of your fellow citizens are currently enjoying. James Duncan Fremont, CA 94539
Stop the austerity. Give back the bailout money. | 0
The subject line says it all. Stephen 11581
Your Faulty Credit Default Swaps/Overleveraging and Recklessness | 0
Your overleveraged lending as encouraged by Mr Bush and Mr Paulson to create a false sense of prosperity led this country to the brink of financial ruin. You should have been allowed to GO OVER the brink and now we are going to push you there by any means legally and peacefully possible and Nationalize the multistate banks and go BACK TO GLASS STEAGALL rules. There will be no socialism for you and capitalism for me. There will be a National Moratorium on foreclosures for one year until every homeowner is reinstated in a reasonable mortgage. Your recklessness cost me $500,000 in lost property value which was my retirement. I did not participate in the bubble or cause the decline. YOU DID. I need to be paid back by lowering my mortgage to the market value of my property NOW. Our banking system is broken and YOU BROKE IT. NOW FIX IT OR LOSE YOUR JOB! Ronnie Myers 30268
SHARE THE WEALTH | 0
Your practices are unfair. Life is not all about profit. Too many people are hurting because of your greed. Ante up. It is the moral thing to do. Judith 13790
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