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Check out all the great letters everybody is sending to their new friends in the 1%. If you haven’t gotten yourself a pen pal yet, what are you waiting for? It’s lonely at the top. Choose a pen pal and help a banker feel just a little closer to the rest of us!

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  • Your subject here | 0  

    Please be advised:
    
    We are fed up with Bank of America and the other big Wall Street banks underwriting dirty coal and wrecking our climate!
    
    We are fed up with the inordinate political influence exerted by the richest of the rich!
    
    We are fed up with the lack of decent jobs for the 99% while fat cats get massive bonuses!
    
    We are growing stronger every day.  Change WILL come!
    
    Carolyn Pettis
    
    CA 91387
    
  • Occupy the Boardroom! | 0  

    American Spring! It's about time! 
    
    As a 68 year old retiree who has worked and saved her whole life and pretty much singlehandedly raised two kids and put them through college, I am disgusted with Wall St, and many of the banks and corporations who think it's ok to cheat others. The government seems to think it's ok too. What a disgrace!
    
    I was lucky to have had a good job for many years with a business that I respected, but I saw firsthand what an acquiring corporation can do to destroy a company that they really don't care about or even understand. Respect turned into embarrassment as far as I was concerned, and of course the company tanked. 
    
    I've seen what the banks and Wall St. have done to make it impossible for me to grow the savings I worked so hard for. Savings that I will need to continue to live independently as long as possible. Savings that I may need to help my children, one of whom has cancer, and who, with her husband have experienced the dire economic effects on their business and devaluation of their property.
    
    The government should impose any and all restrictions needed to level the playing field. Indeed they should have done so long ago.
    
    I believe that most Americans, as well as people everywhere, would prefer to help their fellow men than screw them out of their livelihoods. But the government needs to create the climate for this to happen.
    
    
    Diane Sandberg
    
     10510
    
  • Help us reform or stand as examples of the problem. | 0  

    As Bank of America is now seeing, We, the invisible hand of the market, can choose to take back our power and influence that we have granted you. As we find out about your influence in the damage to our economy, our neighborhoods, our ecosystems, we will vow to disown you and all of your products and assets. 
    
    if you redeem yourselves by trying to right your wrongs and standing with us in the promises that you will attend to your STAKEholders instead of only your SHAREholders, then there may be hope. 
    
    Not all people are stricken with greed or sloth. many of you shareholders likely agree with us, and we ask you as the majority of those you depend on as consumers, please stand and hold your companies to higher standards with us, and do not fight to make our world worse. You can build profit at the same time as you build our well-being.
    please fight to redesignate your corporations as B Corporations or Flexible Purpose Corporations. Doing so can help to fight corruption all the way across your board of directors.
    
    I sincerely hope you read this and agree.
    
    Adam davis
    
    Savanah, GA 31401
    
  • Corporate Greed | 0  

    Wall Stret is only a symbol for rapacious corporations that put profit ahead of people and the environment. There is nothing wrong with profit, but it should be tempered with reason and compassion and the realization that resources are finite. The old cliche, you can't eat money nor drink oil holds true. Even you. the richest of the rich, will suffer when there is not fresh air, water or green space.
    
    Cynthia McWilliams
    
    Manorville, NY 11949
    
  • Occupy the Boardroom! | 0  

    these people moving money around were so focused on short term profits they brought the whole house of cards down on everybody, but so what they got bailed out and are now just sitting on their ill gained profits.  Guess what ? People don't look up to you cause you are rich they just think you are greedy disgusting pigs. 
    
    Timothy Barry
    
     10013
    
  • What do YOU contribute to society? | 0  

    
    
    People engaged in the world of international finance, I have one question: What do you actually contribute to society? You don't make any useful product. You don't render any useful service. You just make the rich richer by risking the money of the middle class. It's time for you and your wealthy clients to start giving back to the 99% of us who actually go to work and WORK every day providing your kids with education, your wife with dry-cleaning, and you with cafe lattes.
    
    Isabel 
    
     47403
    
  • Occupy the Boardroom! | 0  

    I have worked all my life stop taking my money away.  I do not know where to put my money anymore, every where I turn there are crooks stealing my money, and the sad thing is, they get away with it.  Who is looking out for us? It is getting more and more difficult to make ends meet.
    
    Pamela Henry
    
     12533
    
  • The people have woken up! | 0  

    The continuation of greed and unmindfulness to the plight of the majority of people cannot and will not be tolerated any more.
    
    No more taking huge bonuses as the expense of everyone else, no more thinking of lining your pockets while so many cannot pay for basic necessities.
    
    This has to stop NOW. Unless you change and begin to do what is right for all- not just what is most profitable for you- we will not stop taking steps to force this change to happen.
    
    
    
    Patricia Petersen
    
    Boulder, CO 80304
    
  • My Requests for Disclosure Ignored by BOA | 0  

    
    
    In 2000 my mother died, and as I dealt with her final affairs w/an investment account she had with Bank of America, I kept asking for full disclosure of her records on the account.  The BOA officials in charge continously failed/refused to provide the documents I  demanded and subsequently closed the account selling off a bond which I had decided to keep, which was in hot demand as the interest rate was high comparatively with the market.  They seemed to be 'hiding' something from me, information to which I was entitled as Trustee.  I think BOA is as crooked as they come.  I definitely have grievance with them.  
    
    jaclyn burlingame
    
     13902
    
  • a moral compass | 0  

    
    
    Somewhere you lost a part of yourself to the greed and avarice for money. power and influence.
    You gamble with other  people's money, you gamble with our country's stability, our credibility, our homes, our jobs, our sleep, and our future.
    I will not ask, Have you no shame for you have answered the question a million fold.
    
    Gale Denning-Mailloux
    
    Bonsall, CA 92003
    
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