http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/01/22/what-are-the-five-most-hated-companies-in-america Comments On: What Are the Five Most Hated Companies in America? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Both extremely expensive monopolies (the place in NE Portland I live does not have DSL through CenturyLink) with poor quality of product (no fluoridated water - what is this, Dr. Strangelove?).

All the big banks crashed the economy, so they affect me negatively, but indirectly. And Walmart is pretty easy to avoid, especially because there isn't one near me.
Posted by LawyerPepper]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:03:58 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by ujfoyt]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:18:33 -0800 Portland Mercury
For example: I don’t use Citigroup or Wells Fargo, but because of their collective actions, they’ve bankrupted a huge portion of the world. Additionally, 95% of the people connected to The Mercury’s servers are connected via Comcast. They have a virtual monopoly and their service sucks.

But I can agree, Walmart has singlehandedly fucked over more people than JC Penny had in total shoppers last year. Certainly a Top 10.
Posted by fidelity_axiom]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:46:56 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by guspasho]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:21:06 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by DamosA]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:28:40 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by counter.strike]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:19:20 -0800 Portland Mercury
People should be lining up outside Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon's estates with torches and pitchforks, but unfortunately that that will never happen as long as the heads of these transnational, "vampire squid" banking cartels sit in positions above governments, instead of inside a prison cell.

Spindles would strongly urge everyone to read the most recent article by the excellent Matt Taibbi titled "Secrets and Lies of the Bailout". My only criticism would be his implication that the Federal government are merely stooges to the whims of the banks instead of active participants in the fraud.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
Posted by Spindles]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:29:11 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by azure]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:20:38 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by MeSoThorny]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:09:59 -0800 Portland Mercury
A representation of the mismanagement of public funds and misplaced priorities right in our own backyard! Dressed up like a transportation project, but just another additional subsidy to developers who would have built out their projects without the streetcar because of all of the other subsidies available!
Posted by Babygorilla]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:04:57 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by MStar]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:02:27 -0800 Portland Mercury
T-Mobile isn't great, but they're the least worst of the carriers in terms of customer service. JCPenney is absolutely great. I appreciate that they don't play games with their prices, like Kohl's "Buy 5 and get 3 for 44% off" nonsense.

The other three companies can burn in a fire.
Posted by Crowsby]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:42:27 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by John Denny]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:36:46 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by MarkDaMan]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:12:50 -0800 Portland Mercury
I'm really shocked to see J.C. Penney there too. Not because it's great, but because there are so many worse companies out there.
Posted by Aestro]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:00:08 -0800 Portland Mercury
I would much prefer this same list that instead says, "Top 5 companies everyone should burn to the ground." Because hate without action is just posturing.
Posted by fidelity_axiom]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:51:05 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Aleta Melton Fullenwider]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:35:31 -0800 Portland Mercury Facebook comes in a close second. I've already quit FB, now i need a Comcast solution.
Posted by Tornado]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:21:14 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by jennerc]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:15:35 -0800 Portland Mercury