We eat what we kill.
The following e-mail has been going around on the Street recently. I thought I might share it:
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?







Couldn't have said it better.
Couldn't have said it better.
"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
hahaha props
hahaha props
silver banana coming ur way
silver banana coming ur way
saw this earlier, I def..
saw this earlier, I def.. agree with most of this
That is fantastic. 10 points
That is fantastic. 10 points to whomever the author is. Can you imagine the reaction if Jamie Dimon published this on the front page of the WSJ with his smiling portrait next to it?
- Capt K -
"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
If I was from Jersey, I'd be
If I was from Jersey, I'd be fist pumping right now....fuck it I'll do it anyway.
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcom
OH SHITTTTTT did anyone else
OH SHITTTTTT
did anyone else think of John Galt and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged after reading that piece?
damn that's what i thought of immediately, anyways.
beautiful
beautiful
Awesome.
Awesome.
This needs to be on the front
This needs to be on the front page. This is what WSO is about.
GET IT DONE PATRICK!
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcom
This is on dealbreaker.
This is on dealbreaker. Personally, I whole heartedly agree. Very interesting the reactions on that site though.
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Quote: This is on
[quote=]This is on dealbreaker. Personally, I whole heartedly agree. Very interesting the reactions on that site though.[/quote]
Why the hell do non-finance types post on dealbreaker? Idiots.
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcom
could not have been said
could not have been said better.
Fantastic
Fantastic
Excellent post. And Obama
Excellent post. And Obama sucks.
that's awesome.
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I love it!!!! Diamond Banana
I think this needs to be the
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcom
Personally, I must disagree.
agree with ke18sb. you are
Love this so much...words
Reality hits you hard, bro...
I think the author has a
So true !!!
Wow! Well said
"I wanna Thank the Good Lord for Making me a Capitalist"
ke18sb, what is the problem
"I wanna Thank the Good Lord for Making me a Capitalist"
Only problem I can see with
Man, Obama is doing what he
Yeah I agree with this - it
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Two points: 1. Hard-working
Thank you! Let's not forget
If Wall Streeters were so
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
So here it goes then. Why I
holymonkey wrote: One more
We are Wall Street.
well said. i'm glad somebody
holymonkey wrote: One more
I could teach 500 3rd graders
Slacker23 wrote: holymonkey
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
And Wall Street is more like
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
The comment about not buying
- Capt K -
"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham
I have a friend who wants to
Have you guys ever considered
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Obviously main street is
Who cares if Main Street is
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Silver banana to
CaptK wrote: The comment
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-