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Your subject here | 0
At this juncture in the TARP Bailout which saved your firm from financial disaster, and your executives from the disgrace of having to stand in a breadline, or file for unemployment, or lose their homestead to forclosure, why is it we do not hear the succuss stories of how you used our tax dollars to make astouding recoveries, or great strides in financial embellishment of the credit availability for all of those taxpayers who gave you the money? Robert Nielson omaha, NE 68134
Time for a Land Ethic | 0
It is time that Nature (which includes humans) was given more rights than faceless corporations who profit from the destruction of the Earth. We have a right to clean water, healthy food, and clean air to breathe. We have no real need for dirty energy from coal or from the Canadian Tar Sands. The only real purpose of the continued expansion of the resource extraction industries is to provide more profits to the few rich people who now control everything. It is time to put the earth and ethics ahead of corporate profits to benefit a few at the expense of the rest of us. Rick O'Neill Roberts Creek, BC V0N 2W1
I want to talk to an American | 0
You have shipped all jobs overseas, I refuse to talk to someone overseas, when thousands of Americans are unemployed. BRING THE JOBS HOME. Jo Joshua Godfrey Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
To all those who benefit from the inequality | 0
No more layoffs, stagnant wages, fee hikes and climate change bancrolled by Wall Street!!! guillermo cancio Hollywood, FL 33021
Thank you note to the egregiously rich and corrupt | 0
Your excesses have truly helped consolidate the people you have so massively abused and exploited. Thank you for that. Can you hear us now? No? Well, stay tuned. There's more where all of this comes from. Lots more. Julie Starr Santa Barbara, CA 93101
All Good Things Must Come To An End... | 0
Perhaps you're familiar with that 14th century proverb?... Can you feel the fire you've ignited under foot? Time to consider getting out of town: FOREVER!!! A POX on you all! Mike 11235
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. In a way, the mess is really not your fault. What is the mess is that the government is so corrupt we have no limitations on financial power. Wall Street, allied with government, is taking America backward to the Gilded Age. Is this the America you really want? Do you want the nightmare world delineated by Ayn Rand. (Who happens to be a lousy writer, clumsy in her use of language) Do you want an aristocracy of talent and achievement? A hierarchy of moral and familial values? Or do you want America ruled by trashy people who manipulate and cheat, without concern of any type for their fellow man? The ball's in your court. joan schaeffer la conner, WA 98257
Cancelled all accounts | 0
Your service is horrible, you lost my credit card account after 30 years and it was a good account, not happy with your approach to your customers. Jo Joshua Godfrey Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
How Are We Supposed to Survive | 0
I'd like to make it known, that the average homeowner who is not rolling in dough, cannot get assistance in lowing a mortgage even though the main breadwinner is on disability and must spend half of what is recieved on a mortgage. This leaves very little to live on for the rest of the month, including medications and food. Let us not forget the expense of LIPA and phone services. Could any of these banks live like this? MaryGrace Brown 14214
The Banksters: | 0
Dear Sirsand Madams: Great tragedy has fallen upon our beautiful country as families' lives have been wrecked by your rapacious, callous policies. My deepest wish is that most of your banks would be nationalized and really run democratically ly for the interests and security of the 99% That is to create jobs, build massive amounts of green infrastructure and make certain student loans do not unfairly financially burden young people. At the minimum, our Congress should put very tight regulations on you; force you to refinace loans for homeowners who are in trouble so that they can pay their mortgages AND NOT BE FORECLOSED. And, send a number of you to the clinker. White collar criminals you are indeed to have taken the taxpayers money and stayed in the same rotten groove! iF YOU HAD ANY SENSE YOU WOULD REALIZE THAT THE COURSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN is neither in your interest (in the long term) nor the national interest. KATHY LIPSCOMB SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131
Justice and economics | 0
Please remember that the entire nation as well as the rest of the world does best when ALL of us work together--not just to enrich a few, but to make things better for all of us. Do the right thing, and reform yourselves. Thank you. Jesse Richard 59601
We are the 99%. We are too big to fail. | 0
You are very rich. You have accumulated a great deal of wealth. You probably are proud of what you consider to be your success. You probably want to continue this "success". You probably want to continue to accumulate wealth. Most of us are not rich. Many of us have much less than we need. We do not have enough, and our human needs go unsatisfied. For this reason, many of us are suffering. Our lives are harsh. Our dignity is challenged. Our humanity is unfulfilled. In accumulating your wealth, you seem to be insatiable. You possess too much. You posses much more than you need. Yet you seem not to care about us or about our suffering. Your greed disgusts us. We do not understand this greed that apparently will never be satisfied. We do not understand your selfishness. What sort of person are you who can hoard wealth far beyond your needs while so many of us suffer? By now, you have probably begun to fear that we will try to take some of your wealth away from you. Do you fear us? People have died from your selfishness. Do you fear that you have earned not just our disgust but our hatred too? Do you fear retribution for the suffering that your selfishness has created? Do you fear justice? You should not fear justice. You should fear only our having to wait so long for it. After all, we too are only human. Like you, we have our flaws. Ours is not greed. But yours is probably not vengeance. David 05601
Common Decency | 0
Do you not see what the result of actions and inaction are? - No longer is a one-income family possible in the US. - Our air and water are used for your toxic dumping. - All our institutions and regulations have been subverted. - Continued dependence on foreign oil, the main cause of our trade deficit. - The same dependence causes further aggravation of GH effects. - Which leads to untold suffering due to climate change. ENOUGH! Francoise LaMonica Newton, MA 02459
Dear Wall Street and K Street & elected officials, | 0
For too long the 1% have distracted us with struggling to pay the bills and reality TV shows and worrying about our economic well being and video games and a-dollar-and-a-dream lottery tickets and Hollywood fantasies and wondering how we can afford to obtain a solid education for our children. And, while we weren't looking, you used the massive amounts of money that you made off of our (the workers') backs to pay off (aka lobby) lawmakers to change the rules to benefit you (the super minority). Well, we've awoken from our long slumber and we're not going to accept this anymore. We will not allow you to destroy our democracy, our environment and our economy for greed and we will not allow you to neglect our needs and our rights as citizens of this country. We (the 99%, the super majority) make this country run and we want you to know that you work for us and NOT the other way around. So, do some self-reflection and realign your priorities. We will continue to clamor and to remind you that we're here. Reinstate and strengthen the government regulations that protect us from the greedy. Provide all workers with the living wage that we work hard to earn. Prosecute white collar criminals and environmental polluters. Strengthen worker protections. Institute campaign finance reform. Restore our democracy. It cannot exist while our government is ruled by the 1%. Esther Levy 10032
My taxes and corporate taxes | 0
I'm a retired school teacher. Why do I pay more taxes than most US corporations? Steve Eklund Salinas, CA 93901-1337
Forclosing | 0
You people are at fault for the economic mess our country is in today. You invented sub-prime mortgages, mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps. There is much more; but, I doubt you want to hear what you already know. You got bailed out; and, we got forclosed. You are setting on two trillion dollars in profits; but, you are not hiring. My wife and I are disabled. Bank of Americia said they could not help us adjust our mortgage because our medical costs were growing so fast that we could not keep up (no COLA's in past two years while you people were handing out bonuses) The Supreme court says you are people. If that is true, you are betraying America sending 70% of the money to China and else where. Don't worry, we know you own all branches of the government. So, they will not charge you with treason. Hopefully that will soon change. Merle Gothard Rio Linda, CA 95673
Financial ethics | 0
Financial ethics must include consideration of the harm to all as well as stockholders. Justine 75218
families are suffering | 0
I am an educator and have been for +30 years. I have a birds-eye view of low income working families and the unemployed. Believe me, living in poverty today is even worse than it was 30 years ago. Rents are higher, landlords have less mercy and family members who use to be able to help out are struggling themselves. I sometimes feel like I'm living in a Dickens novel. You have to know that it is common for families to have two parents who have always worked hard to be HOMELESS ... to MISS MEALS... LACK MEDICAL CARE ... and to live with severe STRESS every single day. People are just trying to survive ... literally. If you want to live in a country that is safe, with people who will buy your products, you must share the wealth. You can still live in luxury and support family wage jobs for Americans who are willing to work hard. Sue 97405
Corporate Greed by the 1% and the Suffering of the 99% | 0
Did you forget the Golden Rule, Do unto others as You'd have them do unto you?" Doesn't your conscience bother you when you treat others so badly? Wouldn't you rather be generous than selfisg? If you can afford to live well and yet allow others to live a decent life, why do you insist on being so greedy? Are you so besottted with greed that you can no longer stop youself from being this way? All one can do is pray that you'll wake up and realize that you're on a fast track to hell. Britt Strader Kentfield, CA CA
Reality in Most of America | 0
Thanks for everything, guys and gals! My home is now worth about 65% of what it was in 2007, and I'm told we're actually lucky it isn't more like 50%, or less. I used to work in the real estate industry, but that's been destroyed. Went out and was lucky-enough to get a 9-5 (sometimes more like a 5AM-9PM) job; still fortunate compared to a lot of our countrymen, even after the destruction of our small real estate business, I'm told my family income continues to put us in the top 86% or so of all American incomes. Yet, we don't have enough money to take any kind of decent vacation once a year, even for a week, and we can't afford to put our kid through college. We have money saved-up in 401(k) accounts, but are legitimately worried that if we can ever retire, it will be a pretty spartan existence. We've never asked for handouts, and have worked our arses off for a long time (24 years for my wife, and 27 years for me). Some American dream. Hope things are going more smoothly fo! r you... Chris Radan 60447
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I have been laid off my job as a Medical Biller. I'm trying to put myself through nursing school, since heatlhcare seems to be the ony safe, well safer than most jobs. I'm paying 7.5% on my mortgage. I've applied for food stamps. All I want is to work and make a decent living to support myself. Since being laid off I often pay my mortgage late, because the money just isn't there. How unfair that you don't even do the job you were hired for and still get millions of dollars in bonues. Just share some of the bonus money with the many people who are losing their houses and jobs. It's pocket change to you. I'd like to refiance but can't because I made a few late payments. I'm barely staying above water and money is a day-to-day issue on what bills will get paid. Stop acting as if the blue collar workers are invisiable. Do the right thing in your jobs and earn your money. I get less and 1/4% on my money. Help make our economy livable for eveyone, not just yourselves. Mary Greco 14214
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
I have been laid off my job as a Medical Biller. I'm trying to put myself through nursing school, since heatlhcare seems to be the ony safe, well safer than most jobs. I'm paying 7.5% on my mortgage. I've applied for food stamps. All I want is to work and make a decent living to support myself. Since being laid off I often pay my mortgage late, because the money just isn't there. How unfair that you don't even do the job you were hired for and still get millions of dollars in bonues. Just share some of the bonus money with the many people who are losing their houses and jobs. It's pocket change to you. I'd like to refiance but can't because I made a few late payments. I'm barely staying above water and money is a day-to-day issue on what bills will get paid. Stop acting as if the blue collar workers are invisiable. Do the right thing in your jobs and earn your money. I get less and 1/4% on my money. Help make our economy livable for eveyone, not just yourselves. Mary Greco 14214
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