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Hey, it's me again (letter #3) | 0
It looks like this might turn out to be a daily check in with us. So first off, how was your day? Mine was good- worked (love my job); Thai food for lunch; rained all day- which is ok cause we need the rain. I feel like my letters have been all about me- partly. because you haven’t written back, yet…. So, today I wanted to find out a little bit about you- thank god for the google! Here is what I learned: You are the President International JP Morgan Chase- not sure what that means, but an impressive title You are 57 yrs old Only 8% of senior banking jobs are held by women…damn- that’s not a glass ceiling, that’s a brick roof Not to be nosy, but I was curious about how much $ you make and that information is hard to find!!! - In 2002, it appears that you were making $3,999,049 a year with stock options of another $2,901,000 - In 2011 your stock options were $4.1 million but I could not find any updates on your salary- I bet it’s safe to say it was also higher - And you sit on the Board of Directors of several companies including General Mills which compensates you with an additional $232,951 a year (hint: that’s way more than I got to sit on the Board of a FL healthcare advocacy group $0) And finally, you plan to retire in the spring of 2012 to pursue other interests which really caught my interest since I work with retirees It would be really cool if you could volunteer to work with us in our work to save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid- three of the most important programs for seniors that don’t have millions in the bank and stock options. And don’t worry, it’s not partisan work. The majority of seniors from all political spectrums that don’t have millions in the bank and stock options, support these programs. And you don’t have to be an expert! I can introduce you to plenty of seniors that depend on these programs to survive (including my own Dad). On second thought, introducing you to my Dad might be a bad idea as he finished his career in investment banking (after a successful law career) and thinks you all are crooks- he uses stronger language so it might be awkward. There are plenty of other folks though, here in Florida and around the country though. Well, I’m excited at the thought- can’t wait to hear what you think! Take care- Lisa
Regards. | 0
Good afternoon Mr. Price, I would like to say thank you. You have done so much in educating people in these United States that you now own. A job well done sir. In return, we will educate you in history. It does repeat itself. Its a shame it has to happen to an American though. Best of luck.
Mr Brian T Moynihan | 0
My parents are elderly, i barely make it financially to help them but i do, we have a mortgage with your bank. If we did not have that loan i can assure you that we would be the happiest and most grateful people on earth, it would make such an incredible difference in our life just to know that for as long as we live no one will ever be able to throw us in the street and we will never be homeless. We struggle many months trying to pay and almost lost the house. Please help us keep our house.
We are the 99% | 0
I just thought I’d jot you a little note to let you know that you will not be able to continue your old ways of secret dealings and corporate greed anymore. “We the people” are the ones with the real power and we will not tolerate your political corruption and lobbying from here on out. May I suggest that you join the movement of change before it engulfs you. Sincerely, Sam Beard
Pay Me With Sense | 0
I have accomplished things with fiat money unfathomable to many people. I have had pink, red, yellow, orange, silver, gold and green money. I have had that “boosting your self-esteem” money.I have had over-the-top “you can do anything” money. I have had private plane money.I have had “celebrity” and “fame” money.I have had counterfeit-you-could-exchange money. I know how to make money.Bank or Monopoly; real or fake money.Papers accepted by all… “you can take that to the bank” money. I have cut up money.I have burned down money.I have let it blow away in the wind from me. I have adopted money.I have abandoned money.I then attained more to do it all again…Funny. Admittedly, I have spent slave money.I have spent after-the-grave money.Without money, I see much better days coming! Some people hate and haze money.Some people worship and praise money.I relish in the fact that I understand money,So I have never let money take from Me. Money never made me steal,I took it from the blind to observe the results.How could removing something that is not realGive a dead body such a vengeful pulse? Money does not create s1aves.Drugs do not create fiend2.D3ad people do not dig graves.Misunderstanding one, can make you all three. The “system” is not what is broken,It’s your understanding that lacks depth.This will continue until more are awoken,Reliance on money from ‘birth’ till death. Money never created a j-o-b,Though it has created an unlimited supply of I.O.U.’sMotivation + Passion equals all you needStart paying with sense, your bills are past due! Source:http://blog.swanagain.com/?p=2910
Pay Me With Sense | 0
I have accomplished things with fiat money unfathomable to many people. I have had pink, red, yellow, orange, silver, gold and green money. I have had that “boosting your self-esteem” money.I have had over-the-top “you can do anything” money. I have had private plane money.I have had “celebrity” and “fame” money.I have had counterfeit-you-could-exchange money. I know how to make money.Bank or Monopoly; real or fake money.Papers accepted by all… “you can take that to the bank” money. I have cut up money.I have burned down money.I have let it blow away in the wind from me. I have adopted money.I have abandoned money.I then attained more to do it all again…Funny. Admittedly, I have spent slave money.I have spent after-the-grave money.Without money, I see much better days coming! Some people hate and haze money.Some people worship and praise money.I relish in the fact that I understand money,So I have never let money take from Me. Money never made me steal,I took it from the blind to observe the results.How could removing something that is not realGive a dead body such a vengeful pulse? Money does not create s1aves.Drugs do not create fiend2.D3ad people do not dig graves.Misunderstanding one, can make you all three. The “system” is not what is broken,It’s your understanding that lacks depth.This will continue until more are awoken,Reliance on money from ‘birth’ till death. Money never created a j-o-b,Though it has created an unlimited supply of I.O.U.’sMotivation + Passion equals all you needStart paying with sense, your bills are past due! Source:http://blog.swanagain.com/?p=2910
The time has come | 0
It’s time to put people before profits. You’ll be hearing that a lot for the rest of the year.
RE: Occupy Wall Street | 0
Mr. Moynihan’s assistant, Thank you for taking the time to read my e-mail. If possible, please forward it to your boss. I’m a current Bank of America customer and I’d be very interested to have his feedback regarding several issues of the day. I was troubled to read of Bank of America’s decision to begin charging customers $5 to use their debit cards. While I agree that debit cards are a service provided by your company, I have to imagine that the benefits and cost-savings they provide BoA in an increasingly cashless society far outstrip the overhead in providing them. The timing is even more troubling, particularly since statements your company has made seem to tie their institution directly to the Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank Act. Do you think it’s reasonable to respond to an action of Congress with what will surely be viewed as a punitive measure against their constituencies and your customers? Or has the disquieting trend of bank consolidation of the last 10 years left you feeling as though your customers have no option but to put up with whatever fees you feel you can charge, at least until Congress can act again to limit your ability to do so? Do you feel this behavior is appropriate from a company that accepted over $100 billion in taxpayer funds as either a direct bailout or a loan guarantee against losses? I’m very concerned about Bank of America’s recent history and the apparent disdain it has for both its customers and the economic realities under which we all currently live. I’d like to remain a Bank of America customer, but if I don’t feel valued, I’ll have to take my business elsewhere. Thanks, John Barrett Concerned Customer
From a place of love | 0
As your bff it is hard to tell you this, but you need to hear it. Maybe it was a traumatic childhood, or a dopamine imbalance, or a natural tendency toward obsessive-compulsive behavior. Maybe it’s just that each of us has our crack. But I implore you to get help now before your gambling addiction destroys you and everyone around you. Making money through derivatives, swaps and market manipulation is just as empty and soulless as running three-card monte in an alley. It creates nothing. In fact, by leeching the money out of the constructive economy and into your street-hustler games, you destroy the one thing that actually can create value: human labor. Gold stays in the ground without the hard work of miners and processors; a computer is just a blob of minerals until human hands and intellect shape it into the most powerful tool in the world. By sucking the US workforce dry, you are dragging the entire country - and much of the rest of the world - into your nightmarish addiction with you. You destroy lives when you outsource jobs, leaving people impoverished and without health coverage for their families. You turn children’s minor ailments into chronic, life-threatening disease for lack of preventative care. You cause the elderly to sleep in cars while eating dog food from the can. If an addict really does need to hit bottom in order to get clean, your time is now. You once had pride and dignity. It is heartbreaking to see someone I had once been proud to call “friend” fall so far. I know you will get the help you need if you still have a shred of self respect, and I am here to support you when you decide to turn your life around. Until then, however, I cannot indulge your spiral of death any further.
Love from a Current Columbia Graduate Student | 0
Hello Pen Pal! Nice to meet you! My name is Alicia. There were so many choices for pen pals, but I chose you because we have my favorite place in common - Columbia University! I’m a current graduate student focusing on human rights in high intensity violent conflict and post-conflict situations. It can be pretty intense, but I like it a lot. I hope you enjoyed your time on the Upper West Side very much. It truly is a magical place. I think I appreciate Columbia more than many of the students there. I’m the first person in my family on both sides to have gone to college, so a master’s degree is a very special thing. With $100,000 dollars of student loans waiting for me when I finish, sometimes I get so scared of what is going to happen in two years I get nervous and shaky. Then I feel guilty for not appreciating the opportunities that I have and how lucky I’ve been to get into an Ivy League school when my mother didn’t even finish high school. It’s a complicated feeling, isn’t it? Even though there isn’t any financial aid for grad students and there is almost no way for a human rights advocate to pay back the loan and the interest on it after I graduate, do you think I made the wrong choice? I think about that a lot. I’m scared that I was selfish by wanting to go to school and show off that my life could be different than my mother’s was, but in reality I’m actually being childish and show-boat-y and digging myself into this dark penury just like hers. Maybe I should’ve been humble and not done any of this, not gone to school at all. You know what I mean? I hope you write back. I don’t think you’re a bad person. I don’t know you yet. I hope we can be friends. I’m also really glad that your friends that are associated with Zuccotti park decided to postpone the action last week. I live there. I’m doing it for my little sister (maybe when we’re friends we can talk about it!). I mean, I won’t get into the legal stuff about the park, I just appreciate that we didn’t go to jail that morning because I had a paper due about Susan Sontag by Friday at 5pm and I’m so glad I was able to turn it in. You know how it is! Ugh, grad school! Sincerely, your friend, Alicia [email protected]
Glass-Steagall | 0
The repeal of Glass-Steagall was probably one of most the foolish things any administration has done in the last 20 years. It gave banks a license to gamble with investors' and depositors' money. You all took some of the most foolish risks and committed fraud on levels unimaginable by most people. And none of you have been punished for it. It's absolutely shameful. _ _ 90095
Complete failure | 0
Capitalism in its present form has failed the world's people and environment. Global warming, wars without end, bloated military budgets and salaries of corporate executives that are 400 times the amount of the salary of the average worker. Radical politicians pushing a dumbed down dangerous anti-humane agendas while their corporate handlers back the spreading of misinformation. Women, children, labor, the environment, wholesale extinction all de-valued, sold out and discarded. Unsustainable business practices using fossil fuels that are causing havoc through oil spills and global warming. You are riding a diseased wave of corruption and greed at the expense of earth and 99.9% of all creatures. We cannot afford your ways. Look at sustainable models of cooperative being. This is the way to the future. We reject your privatization and militarization. We can imagine a place where everyone has access to food, shelter, good education and meaningful work while societies cooperate with the earths bio-systems in a sustainable way. Kim Norts 94931
Why? | 0
You are rich and powerful. You have no real need; how much money is enough money? You have no need to prove yourselves anymore; you have the power to effect real change. So why aren't you using that wealth and power to lift up others? Do you think that the poor are poor because they're too lazy or too stupid to be otherwise? May you never suffer the kind of poverty that so many here in America and around the world have suffered, but may your eyes be opened to the satisfaction you may gain by putting your wealth and power to work towards the betterment of others who have not been as fortunate as you. Vyki Sabo 34984
loan modification | 0
we bailed you out,but when i needed help you refused. i tried for two years to get a mortage modified. you lied, you lost paper work, you said you had not recieved the papers-even though they were faxed from one of your banking centers!!! i could go on, but you crooks at bank of am know the dirty deeds you have done. marvin weber 34224
Enter Your Action Subject | 0
YOU have selfishly manipulated the financial markets for YOUR exclusive benefit long enough. Historically, that NEVER turns out well: Ghadaffi, Hitler, the "old" Communism, Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, etc. Man up! Do what's right for America, not only what's good for your greedy bottom line. J Gerlings 98199
NO SAVINGS FOR RETIREMENT!!!! | 0
I HAVE WATCHED MY 401K PLAN DISAPPEAR DUE TO THE ECONOMIC CRISIS!!! I AM FEARFUL ABOUT RETIREMENT AND HAVING NO SAVINGS!!!!! ALSO MY MORTGAGE PAYMENT IS EXTREMELY HIGH AND I AM AFRAID OF LOSING MY HOME!!! DUE TO THE POOR ECONOMY I AM AFRAID OF BEING LAYED OFF FROM WORK OR LET GO- AND THERE ARE NO JOBS RIGHT NOW- SO WHERE DOES THE UNEMPLOYED GO TO FIND JOB WHEN YOU HAVE ABOUT 100 PEOPLE APPLYING FOR THE SAME JOB????? Desiree 10467
Enter Your Action Subject | 0
I have worked all of my life since age 16, lived within my income, paid my bills on time, etc., --all of the right things to do. Now that I am almost 80 years old, it makes me angry that my retirement investments are dwindling away, not because I have spent the money, but because of the greed and mismanagement and misspending of the corporate world over which I had no control. It also makes me angry that the Federal government bailed out the large corporations and financial institutions, but allowed their executives to take huge bonuses, and engage in other financially irresponsible behaviors. Yet there is no one to bail me out of my losses you have caused. Billie Watkins 39060
sarah to sarah here. | 0
listen lady. my name is sarah too. it hurts me that all sarahs can’t share their money with all the other sarahs and non-sarahs; honestly, i think sarahs like you (and sarah palin, and sarah mclachlan) give all sarahs a very bad name. even i contribute; i’ve given grants (not loans with interest, just money that i don’t even expect them to pay back to me) to friends and i give $52 a year each to the red cross and the cleveland chapter of united way (who gives the money to other charities in need). if every sarah (and non-sarah) gave a measly $2 a week from their paycheck, big or small, this country (and world) would be a lot better place. and me? i’m working myself into the ground at a job i don’t like very much and struggling with my greedy company to keep my union benefits, which are the only thing keeping me from bankruptcy, what with all my health problems that i am constantly at the doctor for. and just think; my grandparents came to america from russia in the early 1900s dreaming of a better life for their children, and grandchildren, and this is what i’m stuck with?….say pal, you got $50 i can borrow?
You're not above the law | 0
Let's start with the billions of dollars you received through the "Stimulus Program" which is money given to you by the rest of us. We'd like that money back please, especially since you've made record profits and never even considered paying back your loan. If we the consumers don't pay back our loans, we lose our homes, cars, our way of life . While your CEO's are getting bigger and bigger bonuses from our money. I am happy to see the American People coming out from under whatever rock they were hiding under and are seeing the light, the truth. There is a nationwide movement afoot, and you and "YOUR REPRESENTATIVES" in the Congress are the target. The American People have finally realized that if they want something done they have to do it themselves...because the representatives that we elected to serve us have no interest whatsoever in doing that, they serve you, and other big business. You are the lowest of the low...you'll do anything for a buck, you are truly despicable human beings...I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt there. I will do everything in my power to make sure there is a Democratic majority in the House in 2012, and a Democratic President, and for a population that knows what you are all up to. Mark Willis Phoenix AZ Mark Willis 85029
PAY YOUR TAXES!!! | 0
Your Action Content Dear CEO, CFO, &COO's "All you can eat night at Howard Johnston's" is about to end. You have had a good ten year free ride on the backs of American tax payers. Grow Up and assume your responsibilities!! Pay what you owe and payback the American People. Laurie Smyla 10974
System Failure! | 1
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City: “We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies….We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments.” The Declaration’s list of grievances against corporations includes the following: “They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process….” “They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.” “They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.” “They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.” “They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ health care and pay.” “They have sold our privacy as a commodity.” “They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.” “They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through control of the media.” “They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.” “They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.” Ricardo Navarro 33141-1918
Bank fees | 0
I had a personal account at Bank One. I had a business account at Washington Mutual. Slowly, Chase bought and absorbed both accounts. Slowly, the fees for doing business with Chase became too expensive. Chase had a formula that would exclude me from fees. Part of this formula was to spend a certain amount of money per month on my business credit card. I own a small business and it is prudent for me to constantly be aware of expenses. I soon figured out that I was not Chase Bank's target market and I found a local bank that was happy to have my money sans fees. I started moving my accounts from Chase. The Chase bankers were rude and mocking when I told them that a lot of my move was political. I expressed my feelings about the bail out and that my fees were being used to pay their CEO. I have never been happier with a decision to leave a banking entity. Shryl Kidd Wimpy 76013
Not many complaints | 0
I have never complained about the experiences that I have had with your company, but I do have many complaints regarding the division of classes and how money is spread in our society. The wealthy in this world did not get there without the rest of us. If there was no one working for others, no one saving their money to afford things for their children, no one interested in the creativity or craft of others, etc. We wouldn't be where we are today. As far as I am concerned, the 1% that have the wealth OWE the other 99% a great deal of money, because without us, they would have none to begin with. Sarah Vito 97408
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