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Forum Post: The Arrogance of Wall Street

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 8:35 p.m. EST by shrimpster (7)
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Here's a post from a friend who works on Wall Street. This shows the animalistic mindset and shallowness that surrounds that environment. The Occupy movement is a threat to them and the more effective it is, the more frustrated they will be, and the more they will show their true colors. Keep it up and dont give in. It will get tougher, before better!!!


“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 till 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?”

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[-] 1 points by FuManchu (619) 13 years ago

Sounds like a democratic party propaganda to make it look like Obama is on the side of the average guy. Note the subtle way in which the text implies Obama is against the wall streeters too. That sets up a thought in your mind that says Obama is on your side. Clever.

[-] 1 points by Avoice (81) 13 years ago

For someone who says he's tough that sure was a lot of crying.

[-] 1 points by Daennera (765) from Griffith, IN 13 years ago

Here Here!

[-] 1 points by MadAsHellInTX (598) from Shepherd, TX 13 years ago

I have a message back to those pricks. Here it is.

Hunting and fishing is a big thing in my area, and I've done some game hunting, from wild hog to deer, so I know what being a predator is all about. We're largely self sufficient out here, and can get along very well without you. We eat what we kill too...except for rats. News flash, lardbutts. You're not predators, you're pests. Rats get exterminated, and pest control is on it's way.

End message.

[-] 1 points by genesis (0) 13 years ago

Darn, that's what we have to fight against? It's going to be a tough battle, but I'm in for the duration.