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"I burned my CITI credit card when I saw them mixed up in a Citgo Gas station commercial. Think about THAT for awhile!"

Ummm, I worked at Citigroup for over a decade. They gave me my shares as a reward for hard work. When someone gives me free shares (every year for a decade!) of a company that will NEVER EVER go out of business absent a meteor strike, then ask me how unhappy I am about it.

P.S. The same Citigroup is also up to it's collective armpits in China, Brzail, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, The EU, Canada, India, half the nations of the Middle East, and probably 90% of the other third-world sh*itholes we all abhor and love to hate, but which we forget about so long as our bottom lines hold up and we don't lose jobs to them. We cry when it's doing business we don't agree with, and cry even louder when it refuses to touch business it could easily acquire. Make up your mind: do you want to be comfortable in your old age and not have to depend on government supplied pensions and health care, or do you wish to be poor an principled and dependent upon Medicare for aspirin and eyedrops, at an exhorbitant price?

I can guarentee you that every other investment bank/brokerage firm/financial giant is doing exactly the same thing Citi does (and is doing), and you will find relatively few that could survive for long without that business. Without that business, amhy more of your fellow citizens might conceivably walking the unemployment line, as well.

It's called "the free enterprise system" and it's something we're all entitled to take advantage of, and something that millions wish they could. No one ever said that cvapitalism was always pricinpled (or even HAD to be), but please, don't denigrate me for taking advantage of my rights and for having the audacity to look after my own interests.

I'm sure you do the same when it suits your needs.