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We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.
Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work until 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.
For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime, and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.
So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.
The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.
We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”
I agree with them and all these lazy people who are holding up their hands for free bailouts, should use some common sense but that is not too common any more!
I agree...most people have absolutely no idea what the lifestyle of a trader is really like. One friend of mine who works on wall-street was in the office working 362 days last year. Just think about that when you complain about your 40 hour/week job.
And we can't take the profits in the good years but then complain when things go bad.
What makes these people (traders, etc.) think they're going to take anyone's job if/when their jobs go kaput? They're entrepreneurial. I hope they enjoy selling apples on the street 362 days a year.
I agree...most people have absolutely no idea what the lifestyle of a trader is really like. One friend of mine who works on wall-street was in the office working 362 days last year. Just think about that when you complain about your 40 hour/week job.
And we can't take the profits in the good years but then complain when things go bad.
So the scumbags who worked for enron are indicative of the entire industry? That is as ignorant and stupid as me saying "Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist, so all white people are terrorists as well"
Get back to me when you want to have a discussion that shows we are all more than 11 years old.
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Originally Posted by ovcatto
In all of my life I have never read anything more arrogant, and self-delusional.
What specifics of that letter are incorrect? The average work week for someone working on wall street IS over 80 hours/week, and that industry IS responsible for the stock market growth over the last few decades. If you disagree, please say what facts are wrong.
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