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Sometime back in the early 90s I recall reading an article in Forbes that advocated leveraging the world's poor and public assets as the next growth area for capital generation. Capital generation referring, of course, to the consolidation of capital by those who already control it. Since then there have been efforts to leverage everything vital to people's lives - housing, commodities as basic as water. Privatizing, derivatizing, bundling, selling, all so that fewer and fewer can make more and more profit at the expense of everyone else. Now it's down to 1% vs. 99%. And it's time to stop. Your choice is simple. Stop the exploitation of this planet and its people or we will stop you. R K 95017
True democracy for the 99% | 0
Currently what we have is cleptocracy. We desperately need a shift to democracy where there is economic and social justice for all of us - 100% of the population not just the 1%. It is time to write off the debts of the majority and not just the minority, the ruling elite, the corporations. We have a major crisis and it can be resolved by addressing priviledge and restructuring ourselves. JAYA CHAUHAN ot T5H 4B6
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Good Luck,the more history changes, the more it stays the same. joel merker 11235
End of GREED | 0
All these days you all were thinking to fool the masses of world by turning and twisting their minds to be the consuming beasts of your so called financial and high tech products sandwiched with genetically modified meaty food, brands of alcohol, addictive drugs in addition to the ill filled entertainments in the name of music, dance, cinema, cults of gods and religions. Now, the abused humanity wakes up to end your free ride of Inhuman greed once and for all. We all know your survival games by trying to infiltrate into mass minds to sabotage the rise of humanity with the help of corporate controlled media and their self serving slaves. But the truth is , your end is a done deal! It is not the faked Egyptian Revolution!!! Jey M1B 2P5
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Bridget Brehen 12601-6261
It's time to pay your taxes! | 0
Dear 1%: The free ride is over. Buying elections may have worked for awhile, but you can't buy cooperation or business as usual. We are rallying all over the country. We have had enough, and it isn't going to work the way it used to for all of you 1%. Time to Move On. Get a real job. Pay some taxes. Kate Moran Madison, WI 53713
Justice | 0
I have wondered as i have watched this world go from bad to worse just were do you think you will be living once the air is not breathable, the water is not drinkable, or our food does not give us the nutrition the body needs to thrive.....not just survive. As this world of have nots is grown you will need to build higher walls and stronger gates.... because it is true when people get pushed to the wall and are watching their children starve and their own bellies shrink....we get desperate and the walls of the mighty have come tumbling down from the wrath of the many....don't tell us to eat cake when so many have no bread or meat. What kind of world do you want your children and their children to occupy....a world of fear and injustice or a world that strives for justice. This many feel like the way to go because you get to accumulate so much, but just how secure do those added dollars make you....or is it just a need for more and more. A world of injustice is a world in conflict. You have the power to take us in a whole other direction. Use your power for the good of the whole. Hudlene k Harney Mead, WA 99021
Your subject here | 0
You have sold your soul. If you are not part of the solution then you are the problem Guy Watson Albuquerque, NM 87112
The ways banks bully consumers | 0
Though I could go on about 25%+ credit card rates, when credit is necessary to establish credit, as arbitrated by those who give credit.... I would like to mention the way Wells Fargo, in my case, ignores the law in California that is intended to protect renters when the home they rent is foreclosed upon. The law says that if an investor (the bank in this case) buys the home, which they did through the foreclosure process, the renter has 90 days or the duration of the lease to relocate. I had a valid lease which the bank's shill - excuse me, attorney - told me meant nothing. "We don't interpret the law that way." I was told to vacate in 90 days or face an eviction order which would go on my credit record, even if I was in the right. So I could stick by my rights and take my time finding a suitable rental and screw up my credit or accept the bullying and get out. So much for consumer protection. Russell Grindle Fairfield, CA 94533
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I lost half of my savings in renovating a farmhouse that I had to sell in the midst of the recession caused by your manipulations. I lost a very big chunk of my stocks as a result of your subprime mortgages incorporated into all sorts of investment products. You received major bailout money, you've still got a job, you've probably been paid bonuses. I have no job, no pension, no social security. Thanks a bunch. Peter Hudiburg 13844
Your subject here | 0
Stop making war on the middle class and the poor. While I have been unemployed for more than a year, your coporations sit on $2.7 trillion, outsource jobs overseas, and proudly proclaim that they owe nothing to their employees, only the stockholders. Our patience has worn thin. Maybe soon you will feel the uncertainty that we live with every moment. I hope so. Dr. Peter Geidel Paterson, NJ 07504
You Should Be Ashamed | 0
Don't know what your beliefs are, but greed is one of the seven deadly sins and you can't buy salvation. Do you really need two, three, four homes/cars when the vast majority can barely afford one? Do you really need a new $1000+ oufit for every fancy dinner party you go to when a lot of people go years wearing (and repairing) the same few clothes? Do you really need to go on vacations around the world multiple times a year when a lot of people can't even afford to keep in touch with out-of-town family? Do you think it's awesome to keep people from being able to work & support their families because you had to save a few dollars by outsourcing? Maybe you worked hard and earned your money, but your excesses are just disgusting. Do you *REALLY* NEED that much? And maybe some of the poor majority are druggies/drunks/lazy asses/illegals/whatever that DON'T deserve anything, but there are more people that deserve help than those that don't. I don't even know how you can stand to look at yourself in the mirror or how you can sleep at night. You disgust me and you should be ashamed. Jen H N/A, FL 32405
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. | 1
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you!
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea — God bless. Keep a big hunk of it.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Anna Peterson
Durango, CO 81301
It's well past time to pay it back, prop yourselves up, and leave the rest of us some air. | 0
Beth Moriarty Longmeadow, Mass.
Time to reform | 0
President Theodore Roosevelt admonished the "robber barons" of the early twentieth century that they must agree to reform or face revolution. Now is the time to accept reform. When one person wins at monopoly, the game for everyone is over. Harold Buttitta Boynton Beach, FL 33437
Fix America's economy before it's too late! | 0
While the US economy was wrecked and it's environment damaged by a few, people were forced to bail them out, leaving the majority of Americans on the brink of poverty, facing an uncertain future. It's only fair that those responsible for this mess chip in to rebuilt what they broke, don't you think? The people have nothing left to give, it's time for you to give back! Evelyn Brakopp Kailua, HI 96734
What is cancer? A behavioral perspective. | 0
Human cancer, what is it? Behaviorally speaking it is a cell in the body which has lost the perspective of bodily, communal responsibility. It has lost its essential living status as a unique but essentially equal member of the life of the body and become instead a dissociated consumer of the body. A consumer who know no bounds as to how its growth should be limited, as to how resources should be used for bodily wellbeing. A cancer cell's perspective can become so narrowly focused as to promote activities which will cripple and finally destroy the very body which gave it birth. All of this happening amidst the experience of its own meteoric growth, boom, successful expansion throughout the body as a metastasizing tumor. But when the body falls to cancer, cancer falls with it. In he end there is nowhere to hide. The body can fight the cancer and may destroy it. Or the cancer may win and everyone dies. Or there may be spontaneous regression. The cancer rejoins its community of origin. A time of healing occurs, a return to health emerges. Please help us make life sustainable again. For people, for animals, for plants, for our oceans, for everyone, for all of life. In the end we all have to do our best for all of life. And the end is near. It is now. I look forward to warmth among us all amidst the real work of great change. Now is when this can happen. John Pielemeier Fairfield, IA 52556
Either support America or get out! | 0
We are disgusted that those of you who hold your noses too high keep robbing the rest of us in every way imaginable and yet you think we will go along with it! No more! Either pay a fair amount in taxes or do not use or consume anything that our tax dollars help subsidize, including your corporate subsidies! We are not going to tolerate the rape and pillage of our country, our government, or our world at the expense of our well-being! Either you get a conscience and act humanely, or get out of our country because you are no longer a true and patriotic American when you act selfishly, dishonestly and violently at OUR expense! WE have absolutely had it with your kind! You are the real terrorists in our world! L. 87108
unemployment extensions and jobs | 0
Our country needs your help do what ever it takes to help the people with these matters at hand. Pedro Serna 609 N 112th St Seattle, WA 98133
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Hello and thanks for listening to this wave of change of which I hope you want to be a part. I know most of you who run corporations in America are good people. You care for your families, you care for your country and you work really hard at your work, and deserve the freedom to receive your financial rewards that you have given so much of yourself to achieve. You have a right to these things. What you do not have a right to do, is interfere with the workings of a democracy. I know you have justifications for such things, like, "Well corporations provide jobs, so you have to let us do what we feel we need to do," or "this law directly interferes with our methods of gaining profit for the least amount of expenditure, so we have a right to fight that." I know you feel this way, and some of you certainly don't care if what you're doing is wrong, so long as you get away with it. But that is wrong, no matter how you dice it. It is wrong to deny the MAJORITY of American people the right to clean air, water and ground; to safe, non-genetically modified food; to strict laws regulating finance and banking and protecting those who are entrusting you with their money; to safe streets and good schools; to good diplomacy that is not based strictly on financial gains to be had overseas. You, the Board of Directors, the CEO's the CFO's, the guys and gals who call the shots, do not have the right, or your corporation to interfere with these things. All around me I see people losing hope. I indeed was one of them. The American dream has slipped away from so many people. This is the dream of a chance to worship however you choose, to have a government that truly protects its people and the chance to get a job with a fair wage. Corporations DO NOT have the right to do whatever they want. They do not. A corporation is a legal entity granted BY THE PEOPLE to company. That means, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO OPERATE AS A CORPORATION. We give you the right to limited liability, the right to collect investment money the right to do many things in fact. And we as a people also have the ability to take those rights away. So, if you do not want those rights taken away, I suggest you jump on board with this wave of change because surely, in time, you will lose. You see, people will realize, sooner or later, as I have, that we don't NEED corporations. We don't need health insurance, we need DOCTORS. We don't need Monsanto....we need food. We don't need banks, we need money. We don't need shopping centers, we need the goods that are in them. And if you do not play by the rules and keep interfering with the wishes of the people, we'll take our business somewhere else. Please, get off your high horse. You are not better than people with less money. You know that. You have no more right to influence politicians than anyone else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So don't go there. Do what's right. Blessings, Russell Brown Russell Brown 10014
End to wall street | 0
We don't need wall street. We don't need capitalism. We are organized enough to make you redundant and we are taking the steps to show you the truth of this statement. We already do the work we need to have equitable societies. The only thing left for the 99 percent to do is cut the 1 percent loose. Jason Melnychuk Edmonton, AB T6H 3L7
We are 99% Please I ask you this | 0
For decades my family and everyone I know has struggled greatly. Wages were kept stagnate, while prices just hiked up higher and higher. I want all of you CEO's to have a feel of what we went through and what 99% of your very own consumers went through. You and your staff have caused an economic breakdown larger than any one human could ever do, it's because of you that the American people are in so much dept that there are not enough US Dollars in circulation to fully cover the ludacris black hole that you burden people with. For that I ask all of you to enact a more realistic approach to your businesses. Bail out for the American people effecting both depts being decreased by 1/3 and another 1/3 of that be returned in liquid assets to be able to address the lack of money exchange and job losses that are affecting every corner of America. Gabriel Rodriguez Winnetka, California, CA 91306
Elizabeth Warren | 0
You can't take it with you so pay it forward, for the sake of your grandchildren. doris kelsey fort scott, KS 66701
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Hey Folks, Just a quick note to let you know that the last 3 years have been my slowest in over 30 years as a floor installer. As a father to 5 adopted children (19, 17, 7,7,3) it's been tough to raise my family on $32,000/ year. Unlike others, I've been fortunate to still have my home. Not looking for a hand out, just a hand up.....Kevin McDermott kevin mcdermott 117
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel.
Sirs,
If it was an idea of mine I would limit pay to executives of companies such
as Viacom,and Colgate-Palmolive. I think
corporate pay should be limited to a small percentage,so the costs of any of
their ads and marketing can be passed on
to shareholders holding their stocks,as
well as people using their products and
going to their service operations and
watching and hearing them on TV and AM/
FM/HD or satilite radio.
This would show them that we can give
them their way of business.
George Kaminsky
Stamford, CT 06905
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