Tell Congress: Break up the banks; make the economy work!

Too Big To Fail is just plain TOO BIG.

The banks took bailouts that add up to $15,000 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.  They claimed they were "too big to fail."

But instead of using the bailout to help the economy, they actually reduced lending that would keep people working, increased foreclosures, charged outrageous overdraft fees and – surprise, surprise – gave themselves record salaries, bonuses and perks. 

They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on politics and they're using our bailout money to become bigger and more powerful (rather than helping people and the economy through a crisis).

These 'too big to fail'  banks are a threat to democracy as much as they are a threat to the economy. It's time to break up the banks.