
Hundreds of taxpayers from across the country are gathered outside the Goldman Sachs office in DC right now to speak out against the financial giant's Wall Street greed. We'll be delivering a letter to Goldman CEO Lloyd Blanfein asking him, once again, to stop paying himself and his cronies big bonuses and to start helping the millions of families losing their homes because of Wall Street's risky behavior. From the letter:
Every billion dollars in bonus compensation you direct to preventing foreclosure could
save 200,000 families from losing their homes. For just 10% of your bonus pool you
could both prevent those 200,000 families from losing their homes and lift an additional
100,000 families out of poverty because they lost their jobs in the recession. Imagine
what could be done with half or all of your bonus compensation pool. Donating the
entire Goldman Sachs 2009 bonus pool would prevent every single anticipated
foreclosure in America in 2010, and Goldman Sachs would lift one million American
families out of poverty at the same time.
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