I applaud your efforts and certainly encourage you to write these companies and there BOD as everything helps when faced with the criminality allowed in markets today. I have spent more hours than I care to recall writing/speaking to politicians in both Canada /USA, bureaucrats, company personnel and investment firms over the last 5-10 years and yet things just get worse and nothing ever improves for the better. It's always and at all times about the money especially in the Western governements led by the USA.

I am more of the view now that nothing short of complete financial disaster, popular uprising or world war will change or alter the present course as there simply is little to no leadership left. And when I look at history this is mostly how things have always evolved and when chnage has been effected, one of the options above. You would think by now that man as a species would have learned something or gotten a little smarter but it's simply not true. The one thing I know more than anything else is you can't spend what you don't make and you certainly can't help anyone if everyone is broke or living beyond their means based on debt, the piper must be paid for our financial sins and this is probably why the system is totally broken as it may be on it's last legs as we know it.

I have been an optimist my whole life with some reservations at times but what I see today leaves me a pessimist and I don't like living my life this way and worst of all I see nothing to change the present course nor do I have much energy to devote to it.