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Social and Economic Injustice | 1
I am tired of big corporations ruining our country by paying off politicians. As a result social programs have been cut, but wars, which benefit certain companies, continue to rage. Wall Street has wrecked our economy by gambling with our money the way some do in places like Las Vegas. The housing scandal had its roots in greed and corruption, and the perpetrators ought to be tried for fraud, and if convicted, jailed. As a result of the folly of bankers many Americans have lost their homes. More important, Wall Street helped create a recession in which millions have lost their jobs. Young college graduates, like my son, have been unable to find employment. We are both highly frustrated and ready to protest in any way we can. Mary Gibbons Shelby Township, MI 48316
Devas | 0
After they expend all their "merits", after lifetimes of over 1000 human years, because of their greed , arrogance,& selfishness, take countless rebirths in the lower hells>" No...you guys wouldn't know anything about that sort of stuff. Harvey Kaiser High Falls, NY 12440
Devas | 0
After they expend all their "merits", after lifetimes of over 1000 human years, because of their greed , arrogance,& selfishness, take countless rebirths in the lower hells>" No...you guys wouldn't know anything about that sort of stuff. Harvey Kaiser High Falls, NY 12440
Your subject here | 1
Do you really think you are worth what you are paid? Maybe you should try to live even a month in the lives of people you have screwed. Christina Fong Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Pay Up Fat Cats! | 0
You Banks get away with charging fees to customers and then rip us off. I am disappointed. The banks are supposed to work for the consumer not itself. Hey Wall Street time that you pay back to all of the money we gave u. I am not joking either. I feel those who are out of work should start calling their lawyers now. If it makes it to the Supreme Court great and then the people on the Left can over turn the rich one percent and make them give more donations to Social workers, Health Aides for the disabled, and Let them Unionize. The more Unions the better and that will create jobs in the Green Tech Field. Goldman Sacs has been Sacked. Time for A.I.G. to pay. C.E.O.S. must pay up all their earning to the poor and the middle class on the left. if Wall Street gets rich, then we are going after the top executive. Nik Kripalani San Diego, CA 92130
upside down | 0
I pay my bills on time. I am upside down in my home. I have a seven and one-half percent interest rate on my mortgage. I am not asking for any principal reduction, I would just like to refi at today's lower rates. My wife and my credit scores are over 800, no credit problems, but no bank or lending institution will refi us becuase we're upside down due to no fault of our own. It's time the midddle class got bailed out. Bill Tkach Paso Robles, CA 93446
Time | 1
It is time to stop the B.S. Philip and Judy Saraff Sr. Montrose, CO 81401-7564
Spread the wealth fairly! | 0
While I will freely admit that those who take bigger risks deserve bigger paydays, still, there must be some limit at which financial gurus' avarice will be sated. The deregulation of the banking industry led directly to this mess -- and it wasn't like bankers were starving before that. No one's denying you should make a profit; we're just asking you not to screw us while doing it. Not too much to ask, is it? Ed Baker Lakewood, OH 44107
Great Retirement Heist of 08 | 0
I don't find the economic collapase coincidental, the timing was amazing, just as boomers were getting ready to retire. You spent it and it was tme to account for it, you thought you had dodged a bullet. Well, here we are. Time to pay up. Jane 04605
Jobs, not cuts | 0
It has become obvious to most of the 99% that the democracy and freedom we have been fighting for has turned into a plutocracy, with less and less freedom for all. The 1% needs to realize that they are very fortunate to be in that category. However grateful they may be, they need to join the rest of us and fight to get America back on track so that the middle class does not completely disappear. They need to become aware that the middle class actually runs the country. And when we all become poor, and as the poor start dying, and equality and infrastructure rots, and disease and plagues begin, will America really be the country they want to call home? It is time to step up to reality and create the kind of world we can all live in. The 1% need to know what kind of scenario will soon be just outside their doors if they do not fight for what is right. Not just in America, but around the globe. We have support the leaders who want to help us and force the leaders out who want to exploit us. We need to start by ending corporate and political greed, reforming the financial system by closing loopholes and getting money completely out of politics. Sharlene White Oceanside, CA 92056
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Please, give my kids a job! You could take an unpaid coffee break everyday and free up enough to employ these bright, personable, well trained twenty-somethings. Wouldn't you rather see them employed (with decent pay and benefits) than "occupied," or perhaps pounding on your door. Behaving like the French aristocracy might cause you to end up like them... at least metaphorically. These kids are getting angry and you need to take their demands seriously. Kathy Partridge 80503
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Did my parents have to choose between a b-day party for me and buying food for the rest of the month? I don' think so, but with this economy, that is where I'm at. Wages are stagnant and prices are waaaaay up. If corporations are people (HAH!) then they are at least sociopaths and probably psychopaths-because THEY HAVE NO CONSCIENCE! They are driven by self interest and profit. Those who live off of them are not much better. Sally Allison 14612-4034
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
For most of human history there were no financiers. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Mayans, the great dynasties of China had no financiers. You are not indispensible. Seven hundred years ago, early capitalism freed serfs to make their own lives and foster human freedom. Today, a form of laissez-faire capitalism undermines democracy, destroys freedom, pollutes the environment, etc. History teaches that you are not indispensible. You ignore history at your own peril. Andrew Weinstein 11215
Unfair | 0
C;mon guys, this is just unfair. You've got to share your wealth, what do you need it for, buying yatchs and crap? People are starving, give it to them, take only what you need! Will Sheils Lillico, ot 52827
Economic Justice Now! | 0
The people of America need economic justice and democracy. We will struggle until we have it. Thomas 45223
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel.
The millions or billions you received for manipulating and speculating in the real estate markets did nothing productive for the country, and lined only your own pockets. Worse yet, by creating a bubble in housing prices, which you should have know would eventually burst, you contributed to causing the worst recession since the 1930's, making life extremely stressful for millions of average people. This situation should never be allowed to happen again. You who were responsible must allow more regulation of your business to prevent this, and should pay for part of the recovery of our economy with higher taxes on the portions of your income greater than most of us (like $500,000 or more), and thus, among other things, help to fund the oversight of your business, with the goal of making sure another recession caused by financial manipulation does not occur.
Mark Hanschka
Sunriver, OR 97707
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
As a teacher in a public school in NYC, I see the effects of capitalist greed played out in the lives of children whose families have been on the losing end. Some of my students are not able to focus on their work, and hence to learn and have the tools to succeed because they must help their parents by working. They tell me that their parents can't get jobs or have lost jobs and the students need to help out with a share of the family expenses. Yet at the same time, working in Spanish Harlem and commuting by bicycle from Brooklyn, I travel through the Upper East Side and see Beemers flanking Benzes and rows of cabs getting hailed continuously at an opening rate of $4. The MTA has closed the token clerk booths and consiquently the jobs that they employed in my neighborhood and those people are also out of work. And while school children don't get enough sleep because the are working jobs just to make ends meet, and while transit workers, the backbone of NYC, are laid off, the government cuts millionares a break on their taxes. This harks back to the big bank bailouts of a few years back. The shame of it all is that these millionares and these banks have not fixed anything by having their hides saved, while the common working man and child have been able to pick themselves up from hard times and keep going. It is shameful that those of prestige and power are not being asked to be examples of what good American citizens should be, but rather are being coddled like helpless infant children, while riding high on the backs of the American people from whom they take all of their monetary power. My message to you is, give up all that money and get out and do an honest day's work. Drive a NYC subway. Teach a public school ninth grade math class if you're that sharp with the numbers. Work a night shift at a restaurant and take up residence in the Marcus Garvey Public Housing Projects. They killed Caesar when he had the support of people to overthrow the Senate's greedy ways. They killed Dr. King when he spoke out against America's continued imperialism. They killed Robspierre. Mahatma Ghandi was shot because of greed and power. The irony of it all is that these men were right, and those who are supporting greed, selfishness, and oppression are now YOU! But everyone's day of judgement comes. The Roman Empire fell horribly and brutally. The British were driven from India and the Muslims and Hindus battled in a bloody civil revolt. Black Americans as well as Black Africans revolted and overthrew those who prospered off the sweat and tears of their hard labour. King Louis the XVI was beheaded. Don't think your day will not come. And when it does, no matter of money will save you. A word to the wise is that it is never to late to change your ways, but it is also never to early to start. Get on it! Dylan Tramm 11232
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What do you get when you make education so expensive that people are forced to choose between being saddled with a huge amount of debt or skipping the education? What do you get when you allow corporations whose allegiance is to delivering profits to their stockholders and executives to become more powerful than the people who this democracy is supposed to be 'by and for'? What do you get when you allow those same corporations to put their profits above the health of the planet, with no regard to price future generations will pay for their greed? What do you get when you send all of the jobs overseas, depend on consumers to keep the economy moving—and forget that the jobless are those same consumers? Answer—a newly minted third world nation inhabited by undereducated, impoverished, pissed off people. Corporations (and apparently banks) are no better than parasites because they don't have the sense to not kill off their hosts. Just because they CAN do something, it doesn't mean that it is either right or profitable in the long run. Marsha Lindsey Portland, OR 97217
You can't take it with you | 0
You can't take it with you No matter how hard you try - you can't take it with you Jola Simon 14214
Dear Board of Directors,CEO's and members | 0
"We the people" are fed up with the corporate greed and corruption, the lack of compassion or care for human life, the destruction of our environment, destruction of our economy and bleeding us of every cent we make while lowering the value of the money we do have and lower the value of the homes. I hold the corporations responsible for the current state of our very sad country. You are responsible for corruption in our government, dividing the people of this county apart by continuously telling lies. Making it impossible by your constant lobbying and money to have a fair election for anything in this country. Marketing yourselves constantly to us through every media outlet you own. You send US jobs over seas to further your profits while people are unemployed, stressed, starving and homeless in our country. Why do you do this? I am waking up and am only supporting companies who I believe will serve the people and the environment as we move into the future. More people are waking as well. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the Board Room are only the beginning of what us 99% are capable of. Remember the 1960's? Dana Mead-Campion Richfield, MN 55423
Sharing | 0
Let it be know amongst you few at the top. Although the main-stream media has been attempting to down play the OWS movement and marginalize the participants, don't be fooled by your own press. This movement is fuelled by indignation deep within a hug percentage of the population, and you're not going to be able to wipe that out with watered down negative reporting of this event. The vast majority have had enough. This is not going to go away, even if you have contributed to the Police Foundations, because the police will eventually realise this movement is important to them as well. Best you find a way to change the way you do business that will incorporate the very people that make it happen for you, because they are fed up now, and when ordinary citizens get fed up, all hell will break loose. Just in case you don't get it, the old paradigm is done, we've had it, all across the land and in most countries around the world! You are bright people, you can come up with solutions that can change the way you do business that will work for everyone....the only way this will work from here on in. I'm rooting for you.... Chris Carter Courtenay, BC V9N7B5
Wake up and smell the frustration | 0
All of you (and yes that means you who just claimed innocence) who in your greed were responsible for the greatest financial meltdown since the great depression and quite possibly in history since we have certainly not even seen the end yet, you will answer for your misdeeds. Just how do you expect an economy to thrive when none 1% has any money to spend? Are you completely out of touch with reality? Just what kind of model are you following here? The noises of frustration you hear now are just the beginning. We the people have finally had enough. This will not stop until you and the government you have bought and paid for come to your senses and put right what you have made horribly wrong. If you think this is not possible just remember Marie Antoinette. She didn't think so either. Richard McGonagle Burbank, CA 91506
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
you got 17 trillion dollars in loans at 3% and you kept it from benefitting american home owners in crisis, and brought the economy to a standstill, a depression really. 50 million have no health care, 10's of millions are on food stamps, most of the money is in the hands of people who pay an effective rate of 17%, States are going bankrupt, teachers and firemen and cops laid off, and no one went to jail except for protestors. You ruin the environment, plug carbon instead of green energy, and have a vocabulary of 40 words with a teleprompter. bob elmendorf 12115
We Want Ethics Back in Our Country | 0
That means in business too. It only works if we work together for the common good. So before you think about your bottom line or your pocket think about the ethics of what you are doing. Is it the right thing? Because a whole lot of people are hurting and if you aren't helping you are the problem. Loletta Barrett upland, CA 91786
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