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Sandra Holt ALEC isn’t a program for fairness in our nation. We expect all corporations to be fair to the citizens in our country instead of trying with money and actions to strip away any hint of fairness.
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Anthony Sciaccotta the time for greed is over , it’s our time now, let’s roll…………………
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Michelle Oliver The banks are the devils, how many people can they foreclose on, receive federal insurance then sell the same house for 50% less in a short sale? Why not leave the unemployed or underemployed worker to get a mortgage based on the current market value, the banks still will earn a profit because you will have people sign a 30 year fixed loan, who will lose doing the right thing? The government must put a stop to the foreclosure process that is occurring every second. Mediation is a joke, the bank does it as a matter of formality but have no intention of working on affordable solutions. I am a single mom, who became unemployed after 10 years with my company, was unemployed for 18 months, found another job and was laid off again. I informed my bank of the situation and inform them that I can make payment but not the original amount until I find a job that is willing to pay me what I am worth, have 27 years in the same field. I am not a dead-beat just a victim of this travesty that millions are experiencing. Something must be done immediately to stop the bank’s greed.
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Chuck Figgins All we’re looking for is fairness and a level playing field.
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Jackie Wall Street stole our retirement funds, our livelihoods and our dignity. At their bidding, the GOP-Tea Party governors and congress are stealing our workers rights, our voices and any chance of economic equality. I am 63 and my husband is 70 and our short future will be grim. We want a brighter future for our children and their children and unless we all fight for it, they will only face a continuing assault from a corrupt political system that favors a plutocratic dictatorship. We must change the Corporate States of America back to the United States of America or we may all cease to exist.
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Steve Hemping We had close to 500 in the street in Naples, FL. Yes, I said Naples, your 1%‘s right-wing, conservative so-called strong hold. The 99%’s are alive and well here. You should have seen their faces last Saturday! It was amazing and more to come, even here in NAPLES.
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Jan Jennings American taxpayers bailed out the banks and Wall Street. It is obscene for any bank executive to receive more than $1million MAXIMUM in salary and bonuses. (Most of them aren’t even worth that!) Reduce salaries of overpaid executives and pay your working staff a fair wage with benefits. Start paying depositors more than .75% on our savings (e.g. at least 5% which is what I earned on a passbook savings account in 1972!!!). Stop charging outrageous fees for services like debit cards that you wanted us to use. Start working with people you lent money to for houses they couldn’t afford because you didn’t make them qualify for a mortgage. Re-negotiate the terms of their loans.
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Sandra Cole You are taking more than your share. So long as that happens, the economy will decline. In the long run you will lose. You would be better off with a smaller piece of a bigger pie, than with shrinking the pie down to the size of your minds.
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William Gilbert I, with excellent credit, tried to refi my commercial mtg, only to find my reserve requirements have quadrupled to 100% of equity borrowed. My friend, also excellent credit, a car dealer, routinely acquiring loans to grow, is refused loans now and must go to loan sharks, at 21% +. If banks don’t lend, there will be no recovery.
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Darhlene Zeanwick I had been a homeowner for 19 years when Osceola County, Florida, gave me the choice of staying with my abusive husband of 7 years or lose everything. I am now divorced. Just a month ago, I closed my Fifth-Third Bank account. They re-opened it without my authorization, paid hundreds of dollars of ACH pulls without even notifying me first, and now expect me to pay them. I’m now with a community bank and will never trust a big bank again.
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Anthony Lillich As we know, the Wall Street bundling of credit default swaps has endangered the world’s economy to the point of collapse. This event has created a lack of jobs, business investments, business loans, and making it difficult to make loans. Housing foreclosures, bankruptcies, homelessness, joblessness has many brought to the point of no return to their prior lives prior to 2007. Banks and investment companies that participated in these credit default swaps, along with rating agencies that rated the swaps and mortgages that made up the bundles, need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and be required to make reparations.
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Karen Johnson You didn’t make it alone. People work together to build success and the results should be shared. We are not your serfs, we are not your slaves and we will hold your accountable for the untold misery you have created.
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Laura Berben I came to Florida in 1995 with $100,000.00 and excellent credit. Now I live in a rundown rental because Wells Fargo took my house, took government money and resold my house at a price I could have afforded. They chose to PUT ME OUT TO SAVE MY EQUITY rather than adjust the mortgage to reflect the 43% reduction in the value of the home! Thieves! That money was for my son! It was HIS INHERITANCE!
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William Jacko One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations. They do not want their own land; but other people’s…It is the negation of property that the Duke of Sutherland should have all the farms in one estate; just as it would be the negation of marriage if he had all our wives in one harem.—G.K. Chesterton Did you ever hear of the French Revolution? The people were starving, and the aristocrats did nothing. The next time the economy tanks and the banks require bailing out, the people will stop being nice to you thieves. Just keep doing what you’re doing.
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Janet Dowell You should feel obligated to give back instead of taking more….
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Kallya Georgiades It is mind boggling that you can go to sleep at night knowing that little children go to bed hungry, have no health coverage and if sick and in need of medical attention, cannot visit a medical doctor. You are zombies without a soul. How can you possibly have a soul when you sold it out to the devil for power and riches. What you forget is that everything in our mundane world is temporary and you will answer for your actions sooner or later. At the bat of an eye lid you will find yourselves in a worst situation than the one you have chosen for us surfs who unfortunately for you, we do have a mind and a brain. We know you have stolen our dreams and our children’s future because one yacht is not enough. One mansion is not enough. You need several yachts and several mansions to be able to survive. Never mind that the 99% of the population are bordering poverty. Where did all the money go? How much money do you need to fill your stomachs with the best of food and house yourselves with the best of the best? It is time you realize that the good times are over. You have to answer for your actions as the 99% is a much bigger number than the 1%!!!! We are done tolerating your greed. Justice will prevail.
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Kathleen Mc Alister Dear One Percent Group, Bearing in mind that there are always two sides to every story, I am tired of hearing your side of the story and watching the statistics and reports about your lack of humanness. I am tired of feeling like I am always at the bottom of your pyramid rolling bricks for some unknown reason so that you feel entitled. I am doing my level best as a social worker to clean up your messes because that is what I do best: sweep your floors and eat it with the rest of everyone else who failed to make the mark of the 1%. You need us to fail, to grovel at the bottom, and you need us to remind you why you don’t want to become what you think we all are. Well, look again. And “we the people” belongs to a concept bigger than the founding fathers knew when they wrote it: this is a sink or swim world we are all in and without us working for you, you are nothing. I worked as a low paying social worker because I believed in offering the best possible services to folks least able to afford it. I taught people on medicaid for years and years to believe in themselves and to use this money and service to get up and go. I then took a lower paying job as an aid assisting teachers in schools when corporate America decided Community mental health was lame and introduced HMO’s, PPO’s, and other private company brainsets. As an aid, I can accomplish again what was banished: a long term solution to helping children feel hope and success. I can be with them long term. So if you privatize education, I will have to work for nothing, won’t I? Did you kill my spirit? No. I am simply a step away from the proverbial foreclosure, the proverbial bit of belonging to a tent camp somewhere, and a paycheck away from dire straits. Think about what you do everyday to feel good about YOURSELVES. To know that you will leave this earth making a difference in the lives of others. Can you?
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James McCarthy my retirement fund or as my company calls it my 401k lost 2/3rds of its value, We need over site of Wall Street and CNBC
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Katherine Karrington To the 1% at the top. Please for a minute take a look at us below you. I am a single mom, hard working, me and many of my friends are out of business and have lost our home, our lively hood. See what you have done to the country with your selfishness. How much do you really need? We all want a piece of the American Dream. So let some of the wealth go, you will get it back 10 times I am told.
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Andrea Pernick you are millions and billions, why not give something back so this counrty can be strong again?
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Robert San Socie You took more than your share. Sent our jobs overseas to raise the stock prices and then told us we did not want to work for a fair wage, one more in line with Third World Countries. Well, game over. Time for a reset.We will not let you make our Democracy into a place Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini would feel at home. A country that servers business interests over citizens interests. I like the laws our Founding Fathers had for Corporations. Time to bring that vision back and remind the world Companies are not people and have only the “Rights” we give them. They do not have the “Right” to control the Media and buy our Government. I support Democracy and our Founding Fathers. Not Benito’s & Ayn Rand’s Dream. Liberty & Justice for all “People” Humans. Corporations are just bad legal fiction. Time for a rewrite of our laws.
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BITE ME; YOU WILL NOT WIN THIS WAR!!! Gloria Howard
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To: Erskine B Bowles, Morgan Stanley
Dear Mr. Bowles, I am writing to you as a member of the second income quintile in America, with the hopes of addressing one of the most powerful people in America. In both government and business, you have exercised and do exercise an enormous amount of power, and I would like to implore you to use that power in a manner likely to serve the causes of economic growth and social justice. I chose to email you in particular because of your role in the significant Bowles-Simpson deficit commission, the results of which were deeply troubling to me. It seems to me that many in Washington have accepted a kind of folk economics, under which austerity programs will somehow result in economic growth. In reality, of course, such programs merely reduce aggregate demand, and (targeted as they were on 'discretionary' spending) mostly harm the very poorest among us. Mr. Bowles, you are a tremendously influential person. I implore you to use this power to help push our country towards the kind of policies needed to encourage growth and social justice. This means, in effect, both fiscal and monetary stimulus, measures which have been consistently opposed by Republicans more concerned with scuttling the Obama presidency than with the welfare of the American people. But these bad actors have been abetted by the conventional wisdom of sound-bite economics, which views deficit reduction as a logical solution to our stalled economy. We need influential figures such as yourself to push back against this faulty logic, and to push for sound policy measures that take account of the needs of all Americans. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Cameron O'Bannon
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To: Anne M Finucane, Bank of America
Hello Anne, I am 29 year old science teacher at a public school. I have little debt and great credit + reliable income. Your bank won't lend me enough money to buy my own home. In fact, your bank and many other major banks don't seem interested in working with me, or those like me (similar status). Are you and your fellow executives still laughing the 'occupy wall street' movement off? Or are the messages beginning to sink in? You are part of the 1%, and the time for equity has come! What will you do to make a positive difference?
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To: Joe L Price, Bank of America
"Ghetto Physics" is a recent documentary about how pimps (corporate lobbyists), and whores (REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS) have infiltrated Washington, D.C., having screwed and bitch-slapped America. These guys (friends of yours?) "work" those capital corners while telling the American people to, "Empty out your pockets and bend over! Or else!" Even though I've never "worked the streets," I'VE BEEN SCREWED NONETHELESS OUT OF the following: 1. A fairly decent paying job of $35,000 annually (chump-change for you). 2. A place to live as well as my car. 3. The ability to pay off student loans, which will eventually add up to more than I'll ever be able to repay (so what if the interest is low - the penalties aren't), thereby leaving nothing for posterity. 4. A future of "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." 5. Health care. 6. At "least" a fairly honest and decent Congress. 7. Pride in being an honest hard-working American. Since I'm sure you must have been misled by what the 99% 0f American families are going through, I don't think we will require the services of Monsieur Guillotine. Instead, I can leave you with some parting words by Marie Antoinette: "Manger un peu de gâteau et ont une belle journée ." TRANSLATION: Eat cake and have a nice day.
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