Not that this applies to most on ET, but amusing anyway. I did not write this. âWe are Wall Street. Itâs our job to make money. Whether itâs a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesnât matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didnât hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyoneâs 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. Iâve 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 youâre only going to hurt yourselves. Whatâs going to happen when we canât find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: Weâre going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. Weâre used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We donât take an hour or more for a lunch break. We donât demand a union. We donât retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, weâll 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? Weâre 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. Iâll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much. So now that weâre going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: weâre going to stop buying the new 80k car, we arenât going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. Weâre 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 itâs 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 arenât 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 supplyâ¦will he? and will they?â
Un-huh. We all know wall st guys think they are so smart but really what they are doing is shooting fish in a bucket. The people are right to be suspicious of the remunerative and secretive lines of business the financial industry "engineers".
Gees the guy has a point. Those guys on WS work hard, play hard. They just might do what the author says they will do.
I don't think this master of the universe would last more than a day in a classroom, cubicle or construction site. Especially once he finds out what his mad trading skills are worth in the real world. I know I wouldn't. Not getting up to pee isn't exactly a skill employers are looking out for - no matter how good he is at it. But I don't think that should stop him from putting it on his resume.
Their heroes. First position takers, lead from the front. God Bless America, President Obama, and our fearless ones on Wall St who defend our economic interest around the world. Taking positions that othes are to tame to touch. Yes sometimes they take it upon the chin, but quickly they put dora the explorer bandaids upon their wounds. So onwards Dora and Diego, go bravely into that good night.