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Thank you for creating this hell | 0
What's another hard luck story to you guys? Someone like me with a disabling painful disease who could never afford insuranceand is now hundreds of thousands of $$ in debt with hsopital bills and is unable to work and now has to sign up for public assistance WITH EVERYBODY ELSE. (Snicker, snicker) Or the vet who returns home from serving his country and finds you have foreclosed on his home, leaving him and his young family homeless. (There's a knee-slapper.) You don't think we've noticed you've bought the congressional GOP, so you insult our intelligence as well. Do I sound a little angry? You think? Maybe it's the pain I'm in from having a muscle disease and not even able to afford prednisone right now, which I"ve been out of for a week. Meanwhile you enjoy your Ferarris and houses in the Hamptons that the 99% like me bought for you. Liz Kimberlin 10025
we, the people, demand equal rights | 0
The 99% of us in the United States, ney, the world, are tired of being stepped on and set aside for the sole purpose of feeding the trust funds of a select few ultra rich. The harder we work, the less we get paid, and the more we need universal, government-run programs to survive. We're tired of struggling to survive, and sickened by all the inhumanities caused by a global greed fed capitalist system. Stop stealing from the working class and the poor to give to the rich. Stop supporting a system that rapes the world and terrorizes & kills so many innocent people for short term profits. Plutacracy does not work for the masses of the world, and it must be eliminated. Christen 97008
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. Lillian Arboleda Houston, TX 77035
sustainability | 0
We can not legislate behavior. We need some morality, some conscience, not just what you can get away with. You may think you are above repercussions but that is like a head without a body. You need us to be healthy happy and productive. Dismantling the middle class will dismantle you as well! You had a lot but that was not enough. You not only milked the cow dry, you slaughtered it! Raun Norquist 11963
Learn to become human! | 0
ALL the CEOs should volunteer 20 hours a week at a homeless shelter, battered women's shelter or speak to the poor people in the lines at Food Banks or at the welfare offices to get their stories about things went wrong for them. They'd be surprised since none of it was self-inflicted misery! My sister is being foreclosed upon because her husband of 20 years died of pancreatic cancer after a long illness, she got fired after 20+ years when the company moved and while she cashed in her 401Ks to help pay the bills after her husband got sick, then the IRS charged her $14,000 just for withdrawing her own money! She's on disability now due to decades of her working, standing on a cement factory floor and so she is at 57 years old considered unemployable (or disposible?). It's not fair what happened to her or any of her unemployed cio-workers and the millions of others in this country while: prices for food and necessary items have increased, prices for heating fuel only goes up in price when it gets cold out when people really need it (during the summers I take cold showers to save on hot water), gasoline prices always go up even though our country has occupied most of the oil producing nations, while corporations continue to erode our laws which used to protect us from poisoned air & water just so they save more money at their companies or move to Third World Nations like Mexico who have zero such environmental protections. While the uber-wealthy sit in puried air inside their ivory towers with their private jets and bunkers of gold bars, we the voters and tax-paying people must suffer the economy's downturn and higher expenses of living. While the top corporations have made the record profits last year of $1,500 BILLION during our nation's 2nd Depression, no jobs are created in this country which could help us as the fat cats count their billions? Those filthy rich people have lost their humanity and empathy and have caused this beginning of class warfare! Remember the lessons of history since the Middle Ages actually DID eat the rich when the peasants took over the castle walls...and Marie Antoinette lost her head. Barbara Renton Yucca Valley, CA 92284
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Dear Sirs & Madames, I feel used by the banks, manipulated, & coerced, despite the smiling bank representatives. High interest charges and low interest payments. It may make sense for you, but I resent! It is the disparety that sticks in my craw. The excessive rates for credit card interest, legal but still usury. You brought our national economy down, you enjoyed bailouts, and your execs were grossly bonused. For what, layoffs? It is clear that the law has allowed you to exist, but you have few ethical standards. Honor among bankers? Take on the regulations as a heavy but protective mantle, and will protect our mutual benefits. It really is the right thing to do! Jose Moreno-Lacalle 10014-2722
Recognize the inequity | 0
Dear Bank Executives, This is a time to learn about the world you live in. It is an opportunity to make a difference for the future, all our futures. The time is now. Padraig 11216
Bankster misconduct | 0
Bankers are supposed to be experts at managing risks. In fact, you employ large numbers of experts in risk management. So how could so many of make such reckless risks in junk mortgage securities? You don't need to be a propeller-head quant to know that if you package together a lot of high-risk mortgages into a security, you've got a high-risk security? And how could Bank of America/Countrywide do such an incredibly sloppy job on the paperwork for transferring the actual risk for the mortgages to the securites of which they were a part? The whole banking industry needs to seriously clean up its risk-management act. BRUCE MILLER 94611
Your subject here | 0
Your cynicism, greed, and horrible sense of entitlement are destroying our society and our world. No amount of slick adverstising/PR can change this fact, so why even try? Why not just come out w/adverstising that says "Yeah, as a matter of fact, we really don't give a crap about anybody except ourselves--and we think that you, the American public, is actually pretty stupid." At least that would be more honest than whatever you're doing now. Roy Wilensky Fairfax, VA 22033
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I am getting so tired of hearing about the things you do which funnel excessive amounts of money in one form or other to those who already have more than they could ever use, much less need. How about showing some human compassion for those who struggle to meet their needs and those of their families? Mary 54601
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. Debi Bergsma Fontana, CA 92336-4106
Occupy the Boardroom! | 0
Stop being greedy. Pay your fair share. Jesse Shadoan 12572
Your subject here | 0
Your message here. Tell Wall Street how you feel. Bill Liddle Schenectady, NY 12306
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This is a letter written to express grave concerns over the methods currently being employed by the mortgage banks in America. It is my desire to see these practices changed through reform and regulation. The banks are using deceptive practices and intimidation to destroy the American Dream for millions of hard-working citizens. This must not be allowed to continue, or the America we know today will be gone tomorrow. It is the role of the government to protect citizens from predatory business practices, and it is past time for our elected officials to do what we elected them to do. The banking industry has used the weakness of our regulatory system to turn mortgage lending into a “cash cow” for their investors, but this has come at a steep price; a price we can no longer afford. It is time for leaders in state and federal government to step up and help their constituents; be they Democrat or Republican. The banks are destroying the hard-earned credit histories of good people everyday, and, coupled with new regulations governing credit card companies, killing the future financial prospects of millions of American citizens. The nation is falling apart all around us, and from where we, the people, sit there is nothing being done to control this wanton corporate greed. These banks are deceiving their customers with procedural necessities that only serve to further weaken their customer’s positions. This includes telling people that the only way to qualify for a loan modification is to be late on their mortgage payment. This is outrageous and damaging to the customer’s credit score which can lead to many other problems arising in their lives. It is the government’s job to safeguard our rights, and it is past time that this was accomplished. The signatures collected here represent American citizens who have worked their whole lives to make this country great, and now they ask their country to return the favor. It is within your power as elected officials to turn the tide against the powers of deceit and greed, so that the American Dream of homeownership does not go quietly into the long, dark night of history. Douglas Park Chicago, IL 60608
Hard times | 0
We architects have faced a 50% unemplyment rate, myself included due in large part to bank irresponsibility. Andrew Russin 98122
We see you | 0
As a CFO and CoFounder of a high tech engineering company, I know just what economic devastation your method of doing business caused our economy. We are not willing to be silent by-standers to the economic chaos you have created by your insatiable greed. You need to realize that change is coming. Teetle Clawson Santa Cruz, CA 95060-3133
danger | 0
The occupy movement is peaceful. They are simply expressing the dissatisfaction that is so very widespread. People are fed up with the increase in income inequality. Businesses cannot succeed without a middle class. And yet the middle class is dwindling. There are not enough jobs because there are not enough people that can afford goods. The wages of the average person have not risen in many years, while the CEO pay has multiplied many times. You are rewarding yourselves into oblivion. CEO pay is now over 300 times that of the average pay. That is unconscionable and unsustainable. What you are headed to, without change, would be a massive depression because things are getting worse and perhaps widespread violence. It's time to do something about income inequality. Amy Boscov Baltimore, MD 21208
A message from the upper middle class | 0
I am a healthcare executive and my husband is an attorney, We work very hard and are careful with our money. My husband and I are fiscally responsible and have always lived well within our means. We has IRAs, TDAs etc. We have had 529s for our children's college education along with other savings for them. We have invested conservatively, never gambled and are watching our dream of retirement receed into the more distant future. We saved enough for our children to attend private colleges and watched that money shrink rather than grow. Many would consider us well to do, we live in an affluent suburb, went to good schools and have secure careers, but even we are struggling in this environment. The banks and the government have turned their backs on us the back bone of this nation and that is why I support the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is not a fringe movement and the banks and the republican party are sadly mistaken if that is what they think. I am one of the ones you thought was on your side. You are wrong. I am the 99%. Laura Ostrowsky 10803
We're coming | 0
The jig is up. We're coming for you. Flynn Conlin Louisville, CO 80027
Let's Move On | 0
I don't want heads on platters. I invite the world's wealthiest and most powerful citizens to re-evaluate their idea of what capitalism is and what it can be; to remember their children, and their grandchildren; to acknowledge that unregulated industries wreak havoc on ecologies and economies; and to put their vast wealth and intelligence to work for the good of the whole-- for future generations, for our planet, and each other. There's a lot of work to do to clean up the mess we've all helped make. Despite the rhetoric of outrage, forgiveness is everywhere. Let's get started working together creating a new capitalism and a better society that actually thinks and cares about the future. Tyee Bridge Vancouver, BC V5V 1A7
Why fund coal? | 0
It is clear that coal will not make money much longer. So it isn't just wrong to continue funding the coal industry; it's stupid. Stop doing it. Not because it's wrong; no one has any illusion you will do the right thing. Because it's stupic. Charles Boisvert Sheffield, UK, ot S1
Re-direct your undeserved obscene bonuses | 0
Please invest your unearned, undeserved obscene bonuses to create jobs. Have you no sense of decency, at long last? Joshua Belknap 11211
Why We Change Banks | 0
I truly loved opening my account at BofA, I could easily pay my bills online, I could transfer money to other family members and it was FREE! For those of us that work 50 hours a week to scrape by, this means we don’t have much extra left over at the end of the pay period. Timing for us is everything. Imagine my chagrin when my car payment would get held for days while my day to day charges ran through at the speed of light. Day to day charges were so fast that the day my deposit went in, all the charges ran first, making 2-3 overdrafts before my deposit was posted. Pray tell why the bank doesn’t post credits before debits? I was carefully timing my debits to be with my credit and avoid late fees on bills. Thus this little quirk would cause payments to be posted late and hit me with a few of those almost $40 over draft charges. I couldn’t afford my free account at BofA so I moved my money, I closed my BofA account and got my $3 refund from the balance. Then two months later I get mail and emails from BofA with my MINUS balance in my closed account for a no longer free account since there’s no automatic deposit going through. Seriously BofA if I had money to give you guys, I would, but I’m a struggling formerly middle class citizen and I can’t afford you. Oh, and case it was just my bad math causing those overdrafts? At my new bank I’ve never had an overdraft or had a payment delivered late.
There is something afoot in the land of our forefathers | 0
I am quite simply outraged, by your unconscionable despicable practices that have systematically caused the financial downfall of our country. You have willingly set out to destroy the lives of so many with no thought whatsoever to those living in the aftermath of your greed ridden destruction, no thought about what it means to be homeless and in desperate need of the basics, food, clothing and shelter. What sickens me is knowing that you finance the campaigns of our politicians, because when they get elected they will turn a blind eye to your negligible practices that are destroying our planet: or they will ensure that a new bill is passed that will ensure that you can act in an environmentally unfriendly manner. What sickens me more is knowing that the highest court in our land has sealed the deal and by doing so, has proved it is a part of these corrupt practices We “One Percenters” were hood winked for a long time, that is not the case anymore, we have wised up to the culprits who are pulling the strings and maneuvering the chips on the board in their favor. The days of your reign are ending, we are about to clean house and in doing so we will wipe away generations of foul play and underhanded practices. Prepare yourself for a paradigm shift where love, compassion and generous hearts are the order of the day.
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