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Old 10-04-2011, 01:10 PM
 
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another stupid leftists chimes in on the protest

Controversial comedienne Roseanne Barr has her own solution to the financial crisis: behead any wealthy banker making more than $100 million who won't be reeducated
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What is it about Progressives and their love for forced re-education of those who don't get on board their ideological train?
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Old 10-04-2011, 01:13 PM
 
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Let's get the semantics straight - they are not "Wall Street Bankers".

They are Wall Street Swindlers.

Confessions Of A Wall St. Nihilist: Forget About Goldman Sachs, Our Entire Economy Is Built On Fraud - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
First, Russian tabloids are not valid sources of information.

And if we pretend they are, something that one bitter employee writes means we can generalize an entire industry that way?

Please explain to me how any of the companies I listed would exist today without wall street bankers. Look at their financial situations before takeovers and explain how they would still be around without the help of wall street.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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That is exactly what these bankers that you complain about do every day. They work harder than anyone else on earth for a few years are paid millions. Then liberals complain because they don't bother to educate themselves on how wall street really works.
Harder. Than. Anyone. Else. On. Earth.

Huh.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:24 PM
 
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Harder. Than. Anyone. Else. On. Earth.

Huh.
You were not aware of that? I heard that they were once stuck in an underground vault for months and only had the little amount of food and water that could be lowered to them down a shaft. Oh wait...those were coal miners and it wasn't a vault, it was a crumbling coal mine. Nevermind.

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Old 10-04-2011, 02:27 PM
 
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Please explain to me how any of the companies I listed would exist today without wall street bankers. Look at their financial situations before takeovers and explain how they would still be around without the help of wall street.
Close corporations, Dude.

They're immune to pests and parasites.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Northern CA
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The only wealth redistribution that gets granny's approval is the classic transfer from the workers to the owners. I say let the owners have it all. Then when we go over the edge we take them with us and everybody loses. After that we may just make the changes needed to keep the shysters, scammers and gamblers away from the economy.
Could you help me understand exactly who your angry at? Is it the banks, it is the stock brokers, is it the companies like Goldman Sachs and Coca Cola, any company on the stock market, mutual funds, retirement accts, or is it anybody that dares earn a profit?
Would you like us all to just hand over 50% of our earnings, so the gov't can redistribute it? Who gets to have that money, and how much should the Feds keep, and what about the States? What is a fair salary for everybody? What should the gov't provide for free? I have heard that housing, healthcare, and education are rights. So what kind of house are we all going to get? How much education, and maybe they should just be training on the job, for whatever job the gov't needs us to do, then we don't need no ejucashun.
Can you fill in some blanks, recruit me.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:36 PM
 
Location: A safe distance from San Francisco
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You were not aware of that? I heard that they were once stuck in an underground vault for months and only had the little amount of food and water that could be lowered to them down a shaft. Oh wait...those were coal miners and it wasn't a vault, it was a crumbling coal mine. Never mind.
I find myself turning on my TV less and less these days. There's better comedy here and I don't have to mute the commercials.
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Old 10-05-2011, 06:20 AM
 
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Harder. Than. Anyone. Else. On. Earth.

Huh.
Let me know how working 100+ hours/week, every week is not hard work.


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Close corporations, Dude.

They're immune to pests and parasites.

So you have no valid answer, other than to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work by 'closing corporations, dude'.

Interesting.
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Old 10-05-2011, 06:38 AM
 
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Let me know how working 100+ hours/week, every week is not hard work.
Those poor, poor people.

Makes me want to cry, and send them a charitable donation right now.

Their work is so meaningful.

Shoveling schit is a necessary function for the stables on Wall Street.

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So you have no valid answer, other than to put hundreds of thousands of people out of work by 'closing corporations, dude'.

Interesting.
Closed Corporations, ****head. (Closely held)

Like Henry Ford had.

'Member him?

From 1976 to 2009, I never worked less than 100 hours per week.

I was doing fine till Mark Mora took my security ID badge.

Nowadays, I just while-away the days and nights posting on City Data.

The Captain told me that if I wanted to rant, I should rant to him.

I had, ten years earlier, requested an onsite washer and dryer, but Mark Mora insisted that I take the germs home with me.

Now, I'm all infected, and stuff.

I had to exempt myself from Worker's Compensation coverage because of Mr. Mora's manipulations.

He was given an award for saving NIH money.

Paul Carlson, the Safety Officer, kissed Mark's asss on the deal and was rewarded with a promotion.

NIH likes to encourage "team play".

I was prohibited from wearing rubber gloves when transporting hazardous materials at Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

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Old 10-05-2011, 07:02 AM
 
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Those poor, poor people.

Makes me want to cry, and send them a charitable donation right now.

Their work is so meaningful.

Shoveling schit is a necessary function for the stables on Wall Street.



Closed Corporations, ****head. (Closely held)

Like Henry Ford had.

'Member him?

From 1976 to 2009, I never worked less than 100 hours per week.

I was doing fine till Mark Mora took my security ID badge.

Nowadays, I just while-away the days and nights posting on City Data.

The Captain told me that if I wanted to rant, I should rant to him.

I had, ten years earlier, requested an onsite washer and dryer, but Mark Mora insisted that I take the germs home with me.

Now, I'm all infected, and stuff.

I had to exempt myself from Worker's Compensation coverage because of Mr. Mora's manipulations.

He was given an award for saving NIH money.

Paul Carlson, the Safety Officer, kissed his asss on the deal and was rewarded with a promotion.

NIH likes to encourage "team play".
Again, you still haven't explained how the list of companies (and the tens of thousands of people who feed their families by working for them) would still be around without wall street bankers. Way to continually avoid answering a simple question.
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