Nasty Gram Circulating on Wall Street About Us Regular Folks

“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?”

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html

35% tip. yea, I'm sure waitresses everywhere will back that up. And retiring without a pension? Really, that's sad when you have a few million in the bank.

I just don't have a tear to spare for these guys.

If this is real, these people are even more out of touch than I thought if this is how they think regular people live.

This screed was crafted by someone with little conscience and a few steps away from Dexter-like sociopathy.

Did I see this movie before...the one with Christian Bale?

Unpatriotic bastards.

for a buck, for themselves, view the average Joe.

They pissed all over us and shit on us at will and they will continue to do so because they are better than all of us groundlings.


Yes, sociopaths is what they appear to be.

... you couldn't do my job if you had a 10 year head start you arrogant fucktard. You think you can take main street? You'll live on it in a cardboard box you stupid shit.

"We don’t demand a union."

I could be mistaken but aren't they in a union?

Not to mention that they think they are some hard driven fighter with killer instincts. "We eat what we kill" and we will take your dinner if we have too. They don't see laws rules or regulations at all. They believe they have an inherent right to do as they wish and will get a hard kick in the ass if they had to face society.

About the whole going Galt bullshit; hey dumb-asses, when you quit wall street someone else will take YOUR positions and the country will march on. You are not expendable either. Go ahead and take my shitty job, I'll just take yours.

Wonder if those chickenhawk republicons expect some Wall Street Brie with their whine?

That's some funny stuff.

As much as it may represent the actual feelings of the criminal Wall Street class, the piece was obviously created by a wingnut to cause outrage on message boards.

Apparently, all the wealth in the world was created by him and his caste of money-priests. Us proles at the bottom are merely whiners who complain too much. No mention of how WE CREATE wealth with our labor. They only get to play around with the profits.

And what's this about them not being in a Union? Unions are for the protection of workers from exploitation. Is he saying that HE is being exploited? These are the most pampered, overpaid and praised employees ever in the history of work. Sure, they work long hours. So does a single mom struggling to keep two (or more) jobs just to keep from losing a place to live.

And bad form bashing teachers. They sure educated YOU enough so that you could get your cushy job. Teachers are among the lowest paid jobs that require a college degree. And that "four months off"? They're not paid for. Teachers sometimes have to get extra summertime jobs to put food on the table.

What an ass.

but that four months is really two and is usually spent working as you mentioned or doing professional development, taking classes, planning, etc. It never really ends.

That bastard! Cushy job? Not mine.

Those two months were pretty lean sometimes. And I know about the workload - all those unpaid hours for marking, lesson planning, professional development and administration - not to mention extracurricular programs and after school events.

She probably put in as many hours as this bozo.

is that despite their delusions of creating wealth...they only shuffle wealth around. Much of what they shuffle ends up in their own pockets.

They do not create wealth. Wealth is created by people who take raw materials and make something from it that is sold making a profit. That is new wealth.

What we are enduring at the moment, is a remake of The Gilded Age. Unions began during this abysmal period of our history. For a reason.

until we get our first blood blister, or mangled fingernail. Then we'll realize just how out of shape we are to be working in the sun and getting dirty.

They left that part out, of course, they haven't a clue about who supports what in this world.

waaaaaaahhh!

...where I was laughing uncontrollably, I have to say, this is not only the biggest pile of self-serving claptrap I have seen in a long, long time, it is also laughably untrue.

These guys think they can handle a classroom of third- or seventh-graders, think again schmuck. They think they'll still get up at 5am, skip lunch, work the 80+ hour week, etc., when they are getting $50,000 a year instead of the $1,000,000+ they are earning right now? And, they're going to do their own yard work etc.???

Ha ha ha, puhleeze. I want, I really want to see these guys "take our jobs". Why? Because 9 out of 10 of these pikers won't last a month at the jobs, and they certainly won't be putting in 80-hour weeks, and they will find that no one is impressed with them as human beings, especially now that they are not gazillionaires, and you know what? TO HELL WITH THEM!

Grrrrr.....

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kids after school (and they go to public school because there's no way you can afford some swanky private place). You wash your own windows and vacuum your own floors. You shop at discount stores, and forget about vacations in the Bahamas. You go visit your mom in Idaho for a week and that's it.

A good teacher grades papers on weekends and after school -- and takes courses in the summer just to keep up with ever-changing requirements.

These Wall Streeters need to live on Main Street for a while. They would look at the pension fund money they handle very differently. Maybe there should be a law . . . .

Sounds exactly like what one would hear from some college student who has never had a real job, WANTS to be a Wall Street broker, and THINKS it is the province of really fast trackers.

Guys like that always wrongly think they're essential to the process of making deals in America. They're not. They're ants, and if one goes down, they won't even be missed.

As to the key question the author poses, the answer to him is "yes, you are too lazy, too uninformed and too arrogant to clean up after yourself, do any real labor, or get your fingernails dirty."

That is the essence of that screed.

Yeah, we can't do without them. :sarcasm:

I just Shrugged it off.

only profited a few at the top 1-10%.

I seriously doubt it. The kids would probably fill his desk drawers with chewed bubble gum on the first day. People who are full of themselves and think they are better than everybody else do not do well in the classroom. The kids see through them immediately and cut them right down to size.

And Blankfein would not have the patience to teach kindergarten.

There isn't a lot of demand for economics teachers or business teachers in K-12. It's mostly about teaching basics like reading and basic math. The challenge is the teaching, the communication.

The kind of communication that goes on on Wall Street would fail miserably in 8th grade algebra. These Wall Street guys would have to slow down. I don't think they could take it.

Because they stroke out, OD on Cocaine or drop from a heart attack by then. those that do make it to retirement, start their own businesses in their stress relieving Hobby.

I know a Bicycle shop owner who brags that he would never have been a Bicycle shop owner without Being a Trader On Wall Street first. As to survive in Bicycles, he needed a bank account large enough to fall back on as the Profit he sees is too small to heat his McMansion.

Poor poor baby!

yes he is an asshole. and does not have a good mechanics "touch" to repair it correctly the FIRST time.

going to pay full freight for licensed, bonded and insured employees.

Hmmm, I'd love to see these fucking pansies get a real job. I'll gladly take them down in the real world. Filthy motherfuckers.

...this guy outta get off steroids

On second thought, never mind. Use a dull blade. Three to five whacks should still do the trick just fine.

Pulling a weed or doing physical labor? hahahahahahahahaha. Lowlife mofo's will be selling apples and pencils on streetcorners with signs begging for a handout!! Idiots.

Do they not recall what happened to the dinosaurs? They think the rats and furry mammals went extinct?

and make, if we're lucky, $60,000. That was my life as a hospice nurse. I'll stand in line to watch one of those 'suits' clean up an embarrassing 'accident' from a patient.

LOL i think they got it backwards...it is us you make their profit. We are the reason why they drive bentley's and fly in lear jets. When we stop working their company stops making money. They are few we are many. And LOL if they think they drive the economy by buying 85K cars! No the economy is fueled by what average joe buys not what richie rich buys

Poor little thing..........

Gimme a break.

How many people on DU would love $85K a Year, upside or not?


By the time they get out on work release, that's probably what a school janitor will make.


Try getting a job as a Felon, assh0les.

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8251066#top

(CNBC polls, not DU).

Oh hwat fragile the egos, the Masters of the Universe do have...

The fantasy that a trader of nothing is going to go get a job in the real world is the tell.

What this very narcissistic blowhole is forgetting--is that Wall Street has
been crafting a disaster for America--for a long time now.

Yes, the DOW was at 14,000--and we were rejoicing. However, we had no idea that it
was a house of cards--built by Wall Streeters, who didn't give a rip about what would
happen to the U.S. economy or its people.

So spare me your "We're all connected" bullshit. You dropped us first. You lied
to us and propped up the stock market on smoke and mirrors that YOU KNEW ABOUT. You
knew it was all a lie and that the economy would implode. We didn't.

That is OUR money that you are playing with--during those long, long hours that you
work, with few potty breaks and quick lunch breaks. We trusted you. You destroyed
that trust.

We're just not interested in your whining. Or your threats. That old, "If
we go down, you go down!" nonsense--is just that--nonsense. Many have all ready
disengaged from needing you or your financial shell games. We're living our lives
without money in the stock market and we're crafting other ways to make money.

Sooner or later, the truth surfaces. Dollars are votes, and we've voted not to
support classless chicanery and doing business with a bunch of myopic weasels.