Subject: File No. S7-07-13
From: Sarah Reid, RA
Affiliation: Architect

October 22, 2013

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC is PAYING a TRAGIC PRICE for FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES that CONTINUE FUNDING WAR and THE MILITARY MACHINE, REWARD CROOKED BANKERS with MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BONUSES and NO ACCOUNTABILITY, ALLOW the SUPER-RICH to HIDE MONEY OFFSHORE AVOIDING FAIR TAXATION, TAX HARD EARNED WORK RATHER than INVESTMENT GAMBLES, REWARD RICH OIL COMPANIES with TAX REFUNDS, and then have the GALL to INSTITUTE TAX-PAYER BAILOUTS THIS is NOT SUSTAINABLE - OUR COUNTRY WILL COLLAPSE. PLEASE SEE the TRUTH of the SITUATION and TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION to ADDRESS ALL the WRONGS, RATHER THAN TRY to DESTROY the LAST HOPES ANY OF US HAVE to MERELY SURVIVE.

THIS IS UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL: CITIZENS SUBSIDIZING OVERPAID CEOs, MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS SUBSIDIZING FOOD CORPORATIONS BANKS. OUR ECONOMY IS UPSIDE DOWN - WORSE, CRUMBLING. TIME TO REVERT TO SOLID POLICY, COHESION AND INTEGRITY - WHILE WE STILL EXIST.

FOR OUR NATION to SURVIVE, ECONOMIC POLICY MUST BE DRASTICALLY REVISED. TO REVEAL THE SICKENING DISPARITY IN INCOME BETWEEN OVER-PAID CEOs AND THE WORKERS, WHO DO THE REAL WORK IN OUR COUNTRY, IS ONLY A FIRST STEP IN RE-ESTABLISHING BALANCE AND FAIRNESS, IN OUR QUEST FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THOSE WHO DO THE MOST DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY GET BAILED OUT, PLUS GET BONUSES, RATHER THAN BEING HELD CRIMINALLY LIABLE??? WE, THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, ARE SICK TO DEATH OF THIS ABUSE. WE DEMAND JUSTICE.

PLEASE TAKE THE MINIMAL FIRST STEP IN REVEALING GROSSLY UNFAIR PAY STRUCTURES, WHICH HAVE SO MANY RAMIFICATIONS IN THE DISSOLUTION OF SOCIETY.