Well, Bless. Their. Hearts.

I dunno. If you study history, you know we’re gonna give these fucks a little more rope.

I think we’re still a few years away from true Bananna Republic status, where these fuckers will have to spend their riches on mercenary bodyguards to prevent to fight the daily threat of robbery, kidnapping and murder. We’re on course for it.

Wall Street just yesterday made a show of buying a bit of the NYPD with a few million bucks. Cops are worker drones who follow orders of those in charge. Those in charge right now are bought and paid for by Wall Street.

The cops will probably keep punching the hippies up to and until the Wall Street fucks walk off with their pensions.

Worked for twenty years on Wall Street and encountered many, many, douchebags like this. Most got their jobs through the lucky sperm club and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. And I know more than a few that are delivering pizza or bartending right now. Also, too, not sure what trading desk this guy worked on, but every place I worked, the hours were 8:30 till one minute after the bell at 4, followed by extended happy hour.

I hope this dick gets e-coli picking spinach in the hot sun.

It’s all fun and games until the middle class is gone and the elite move on to the upper class, which they are already starting to do.

Keep drinking that champagne, Wall Street. It’ll be a lovely memory to savor when your COBRA runs out and your child is injured in an accident.

Personally, I’m totally fine with this guy shoveling manure for chump change. I’ll go watch him bust his hump with that shovel under the Texas sun for minimum wage. If he does it well and says, “See? I told you so!” I’ll give him a hearty pat on the back. Heck, I may even bring him a glass of lemonade. I’m perfectly fine with that outcome.

We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.

Real hunters call these types amateurs. They’re the type who go hunting in the NY “Lower Tier” season and shoot each other.

And they’ve already stolen what most of us have on our dinner plates. The thing is, the “skills” that made them predators on Wall St (which they must not be that great or they wouldn’t be out the door so easily), just might not hold them in good stead in other parts of the economy where actually producing something of value is more highly desired.

Having taught both elementary and middle school, and worked in finance before that, yes, I truly believe not one of you privileged fucks could teach one day, let alone an entire rest-of-your-career, in the public schools.

That sort of attitude makes them poor peons, indeed. I would frankly prefer, however, to use them for skeet. Pull!

remember: it’s only class warfare if the shots come from below.

“Heck, I may even bring him a glass of lemonade.” Or a cup of lukewarm piss, before returning to scrape together enough food to feed your family. YMMV.

I agree, we’re not quite there yet, but at this rate it’s a question of when, not if, even the willfully ignorant and delusional suburbanites start mumbling about torches and pitchforks and decide there’s nothing left to lose. An angry and desperate soccer mom could fit a lot of fury into a minivan…

Then we’ll see the well-funded, well-fed and completely soulless police state fire up all the fun toys that were supposedly procured at great cost to “protect us” from “them” (those nasty muslimoterrorists) and turn them on us, the unwashed, unwanted schmucks — as they were intended to be all along. Angry masses constitute a real threat to their power and wealth; terrorists are largely figments of their imagination conjured up to direct our anger elsewhere.

Excellent aphorism, Cleek, thanks!

Anyone know how old that photo is? It’s from protests earlier than the current Occupy ones, isn’t it?

I’ve long believed that the kind of douches Hatmandu describes on the Street have been carefully taught, like the putative kids in the South Pacific song. I knew a young woman who’d gone to Dartmouth – this was a while ago – whose descriptions of the fraternities and the boys therein made it perfectly clear that Advanced Oppressing the Powerless (in that context the powerless were high school girls from the town) was part of the training.

No professors needed, it was strictly a boy-culture thing passed down in immemorial fashion from one class of young fuckers to the next. Upon graduation, they were ready for careers in finance, politics, administration, and so on. I suspect this has long, old roots in the European class system and the English public schools in particular, transplanted into men’s academies in the colonies from the late 1600s on.

Probably the only real difference between a young financier douche of the Gilded Age – a contemporary of Theodore Roosevelt, say – and the guy quoted above is stylistic. A 19th century exemplar wouldn’t have shot his mouth off like that. Bad form.

I have written about this before in other parts of the Internets, so I’m sorry if this is redundant again. Also too:

Back in the mid-1990s, I once worked on the taping of an “investments forum” at a small, rich-folks university in central Pennsyltucky. The members of this forum were about as out of touch as a bunch of upper middle class douches could be and still remember to wear pants in public. One member told of her sorry state: “After college, I was broke, except for the oil company stocks my grandmother gave me as a graduation present.” Another informed the audience that, “If you worked at The Gap in the ’80s, and you didn’t buy stock in them, you deserve to be poor!” (How you were supposed to buy Gap stock on a minimum wage earned as a part-time employee was not explained.) And the third mentioned that, since Hispanics will be the next growth opportunity, he recommended investing in rent-to-own companies.

It was only my utmost professionalism combined with the need to keep a steady paycheck and an aversion to small-town jails that kept me from leaving my camera, getting up on that stage, grabbing the nearest fire extinguisher, and hose down the lot of those fuckfaced fuckers, beat them with the empty container, and then invite any interested audience members to shit upon them while they were down.

Feh – this is just lame MOTUPr0n.

It’s like Glengarry Glen Ross. Only not compelling and not all that good.

Sounds like this guy has got it backwards.

Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.

Did not we just have to bail these losers out? So OUR money was your money. YOU spent it, asshole. When OUR money dries up, so does yours.

What a maroon.

Gonna be hard to maintain that level of cocaine in the bloodstream at 85K/Year.

I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

Oh, right. And I’ll just pick up a job as the starting quarterback for the Saints. Just shows how out of touch this clown is. If there’s a high school district in the entire country that pays $5k to some guy to smack grounders to 16-year-old shortstops, there are already 2,000 people in line ahead of him.

I love that photo. I post it on my FB page every now and then.

Yesterday, in fact.

Now, when I see it, I can only think of the recent pic of that bitch in the ugly dress sipping champagne and smiling at the protesting rabble below her.

Jump, fuckers!

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I can’t remember where I saw it (do please tell if you know), but one of the champagne-swilling crew was overheard recently asking a cop if they should be worried about their personal safety. Which I regard as a hopeful sign. Worry!

Smarter than dinosaurs? Ooh, good for you.

Meanwhile, what unclemike said above. I’d pay good money to watch one of these sharpies try to teach a class of ten-year-olds for six hours. “You fucking re-tards, what did we just say? What did we just say? THIS IS THE ONES COLUMN.”

Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping?

Yep, that’s exactly what I think. I think these clowns are too stupid to be greeters at Walmart. Need proof? Note his reference to “4 months off a year.” I suppose if you count weekends that true, but otherwise teachers in my area get part of June, all of July, and part of August off, less than 3 months. And much of that time is spent preparing for the next year. Moron.

Then we’ll see the well-funded, well-fed and completely soulless police state fire up all the fun toys that were supposedly procured at great cost to “protect us” from “them” (those nasty muslimoterrorists) and turn them on us, the unwashed, unwanted schmucks — as they were intended to be all along. Angry masses constitute a real threat to their power and wealth; terrorists are largely figments of their imagination conjured up to direct our anger elsewhere.

Wow. Your prediction of the future is the same as mine. Pain Rays, coming to a city near you!

I didn’t like these sonsofbitches in the 1980s and I sure as hell like them less now. I -did- enjoy watching them flame out however. Lotta whining went on when they discovered that their previous ‘jobs’ were discounted significantly when they applied to the local stop ‘n’ rob to be night clerks. This time there’ll be the added amusement of listening to them complain about being unable to pay their student loans and demanding that they be cancelled.

After reading that load of crap from these miserable excuses for human beings, I would second the motion of:

“Jump! You fuckers!”

Hey, you fucking greedroaches; let’s collapse the floating crap game that you think is the holy grail: we’ll take our chances with competing with you assholes.

I hope you hear Amy’s piece on the debacle in St.Paul. On Democracy Now. The cops were outta control, ready to hurt or arrest anyone. At least they’ve been outed and have to pay damages, sadly not enough.

By way, shitstick: the notion that Obama and the DNC are “trying to knock you off the top of the pyramid” is arrant horseshit, and you know it. All of his campaign rhetoric is one big fart in the corporate windstorm.

We’re getting on to you fuckers, and THAT is why you’re shitting your custom-tailored trou.

I predict that the last great idea to come out of Wall Street before the final fall will be, “Invest in Guillotines!”

Sounds like Joe ‘We are’ Wall Street decided not to share any of his
8-Ball today. And I seriously doubt this guy knows which end of a hose to turn on, let alone is capable of washing his or any ones car.

I remember when the crash of 2008 happened. McCain fatuously ended his FAIL of a Pres. campaign to go running back to DC to wank about something.

In the long run, BushCo & ObamaCo let a lot of these fucksticks stay on board bc allegedly the FatCats at the top had “the knowledge” and there was no one else to replace them, and furthermore, if they didn’t get giant sucking bonuses and raises, then they’d go look for jobs somewhere else.

I was like: frickin’ let the criminal sh*ts look for a job somewhere else! Get ‘em outta here. They lost MY money with their funny money games, hookers ‘n blow, yadda yadda.

Why the top dogs are still in place pulling down insanely greedy million$$ per year is something to contemplate.

I’m all for OWS, but remember who let the dogs stay in the kennel and fed them more & more… just saying…

Yes. I remember those days. That was the time when there could have been some regulations put on them, instead Obama put some of the worst offenders in charge. You know that they would have destroyed the world out of spit if they didn’t get their way because they had a plan to make money after the destruction of the system. They are used to profiting from failure, even their own.

I work in financial services and I’m calling BS on this letter, e-mail, etc.

Not that these a-holes don’t think like this or worse, it’s just a little too cliche to be real; hits too many hot buttons in one fell swoop to be one persons’ actual manifesto.

I will enjoy watching while he cleans up after he dumps the shit from above in his toilet and it overflows. Maybe I will enjoy watching him re-wire an outlet, wash his windows, change his oil, a tire, or a diaper or polish his own shoes.

Yes, I am waiting for it. It is going to be a blast.

“It’s our job to make money.”

Unfortunately, you can’t eat money, you can’t wear it, you can’t use it to plow your fields or make your furniture.

You can’t read it, you can’t listen to it, you can’t put it up on your wall and enjoy it.

It doesn’t enlighten you or lift your sprits or open a new universe of thought.

Making money is totally non-productive.

Yeah, you need bankers … but only as a means to an end. “Wall Street” has become an end in itself – a totally self-absorbed, greedy, useless bunch of people.

Makes one think fondly of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. What better group of people to send out into the country-side to be “re-educated.” Maybe in the cotton fields of Mississippi now that that state is actively hounding out their undocumented workers.

5 minutes, i give him 5 minutes in my classroom before he runs and hides

I’d like this assclown to do the easiest job I’ve ever done for one week. He, she or most likely it wouldn’t last a day.

I hope folks realize what the reason behind that tripe was.

No sane person could read that shit and not get a little warmer under the collar. Which is PRECISELY the point.

They are now egging us on, WANTING us to do something stupid (violent). Because if we do, before we’ve won over the hearts and minds of the millions of Americans that are still largely ignorant of this movement, then they will respond with deadly force, and use their media to paint a picture of how violent we are and must be stopped. Effectively ending any hope of the movement broadening.

I’d bet dollars to donut holes that’s the reason behind someone spreading this shit. I hope the good and decent folks of OWS and all the other OCCUPY don’t fall for it.

It was also the point of those assholes drinking champaigne and basically giving the protesters the finger the other day.

They WANT to provoke a response. We are dealing with the worst kind of assholes here.

I also like that photo!

“Jump! You fuckers!”

That would be an awesome campaign slogan for a really cool presidential candidate.

Since their shenanigans obviously affected interstate commerce, maybe we could MANDATE they jump once the SCOTUS okays that horrible precendent??? At least get some good out of a horrible idea.

Too much self esteem. Needs a good ass whuppin.

Most of these people wouldn’t know a wrench from a rubber mallet or a screwdriver from a pick ax. The only thing they can grow is tiresome.

Would be interesting to see them try to survive without electricity for a month or two. Or have to provide their own food and water.

That would be entertaining.

Some of the MOTU might actually want to consider that in third world countries that it isn’t unheard of for police to look the other way. I find it amusing that people whining about having to survive and pay taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars are selling the idea that they are stronger than the folks working 2 minimum wage jobs to make enough to live on. In an Us vs. Them scenario I put my money on Us.

I can’t wait to watch them TRY putting in an average day at one of those “cushy” jobs requiring time, patience, and empathy like teaching. They lack the prerequisites to even pull it off.

My mama always told me, “Pride goeth before a fall.”

haha… seriously! I did four years and I don’t recall one trader being on the floor at 4:01pm.

In fairness though, back office support tended to work a bit more. And some traders do work (research) when they’re away from the office. I personally did a few thirty hour shifts, straight thru, no sleep.

I think the disconnect probably exists with the happy hours. Traders probably think that happy hours and strip bars are “work” because they’re there with clients. I’m confident the rest of the world sees those “work hours” in a slightly different light though.

How vaguely threatening. I’m not impressed. Bluster is easy when you’re safe behind you corporate security at the office and your private security in the gated community.
Come down and tell that to liberty park.

I find just the idea of one of these arrogant asses, that think they are entitled to take as much money as they can carry out and leave the crumbs and dregs for the masses, totally fascinating. I absolutely dare them to try to talk that shit to some teamsters revving their engines in preparation for a long haul coast to coast carrying nuclear or toxic waste. I would enjoy watching them trying to do the job of building a road or climbing the iron to build one of those high rises that double for the proverbial ivory tower they’ve been living in.

Truth is, they’ve already cannibalized the best thing they had going for them that they never appreciated: what will they do without demand? We, the 99%, already can’t afford to buy the wares of those companies whose stock they’ve been trading, because they’ve looted it all! They ate the real estate market, crashed home prices, stripped folks pensions and 401K. There’s really not much left to steal, but if they try, they’ve already awakened the sleeping giant, and they are watching it occupy Wall Street. You’d think they’d wake up!

As obnoxious as this rant is, I hope we all remember that Washington enabled Wall Street. It’s the entire corrupt relationship — the revolving door — that needs to get slammed shut and cleaned up.

Jump! Too funny.

WE are the people who make your life possible you arrogant, self-absorbed too-big-to-fail assholes of Wall Street:

Like people didn’t grow and distribute food before there was money.

Or, build homes.

Oh, and if our labor were compensated appropriately instead of at bargain basement discount rates so you could rake in 85k plus a year ripping off grandmothers, I wouldn’t need a mortgage or health insurance or your “so-called” services, because I would be able to provide those things for myself.

Go drown yourselves in a pool of hydrochloric acid and spare us cleanup costs.

… and burned to the ground and the Earth salted beneath it.

Atlas Shrugged was a satire in which it was posited that people who stand on top of the world also hold it up.

Obviously bullshit written to delight and engage the wildest fantasies of the wealthy, unfortunately this piece of tripe actually became the basis of federal monetary policy thanks to that simpering drool of a second cousin to a retarded baboon Alan “gee who knew there was corruption in the world” Greenspan.

I just fucking LOVE hearing members of the parasite class like the author of this would-be-funny-if-I-didn’t-know-he-actually-believes-his-own-bullshit rant claiming to be necessary to OUR survival, when in fact it is the 99 percent of US that make his plush overprivileged life possible.

What amazing chutzpa! Or plain ignorance.

They ate the real estate market, crashed home prices, stripped folks pensions and 401K. There’s really not much left to steal

If only we could find something else for The People Of Wall Street to steal and they would be happy again…Oh! Of course! Social Security!

Well, just remember. If we really needed them, they wouldn’t have to keep telling us.

The middle class is too big to fail.

Such arrogance and delusions of grandeur are quite often hall marks of some deep psychiatric condition.

Sociopaths, psychopaths, and narcissists………oh my.

This is actually pretty good though. I’m supposed to cry because he’s going to “teach” me. I’ll no longer be given the “privilege” of mowing his lawn, washing his car, or serving him his meals. He’s gonna do all that himself IN ADDITION to doing his new middle class job.

What an entitled putz! I can’t wait to watch him have a melt down when he tries to figure out how to work a washing machine or lawn mower(having not had to do any of this for years apparently.)

Pssst, the $85,000 figure is what he figures most middle class folk make annually.

It’s his “revised” income after we toss Wall Street out on their backsides.

Someone ought to share with him that $85,000 is optimistic. Median is $50,000 and declining.

He should get practicing on asking, “would you like fries with that?” just like alot of college grads are doing as a result of his malfeasance.

Most probably never having to do any of that.

Who’s AFRAID of the Ticker-tape worms turning?

Holy Cow.

With Vincent Price ?

85k a year without upside? These are not the enemy. Making that on Wall Street is peanuts. Geez what do you think it costs to live there? Maybe the 85k is the lie. I do know that lots of these types put in many hours but not for 85k.

A companion pic. Marine holding sign:
2nd time I’ve fought for my country.
1st time I’ve known my enemy.

Bare minimum to live in NYC is 70K a year and that’s living in a dump. I don’t think any of these people live in a dump.

The whole thing looks like a lie. Besides do you think some shiny pants desk jockey can hold up for eight hours in the sun?

I think its a put on so we can all blog about it.

“Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.”
Unfortunately for the rich, this works both ways. We’re in this together, like it or not.

A ‘good’ income in Feenix remains around $40k. That’s with an MA of some kind, and a job at Honeywell or Amex.

Or an excellent bumper sticker or campaign button.

Us 99%ers have plenty of enemies. One of them is the democratic party. TBogg, do you know our enemies?

Z

I am not certain if this guy is a threat to himself or others. Either way, I think an involuntary commitment may be in order here. He sounds a bit deranged.

Come on folks. Money makes a major part of the world go round. People like this schmuck have played a major role in what we all regard as progress. I don’t want to be friends with this guy (if he even has any), and I doubt he’ll have any kind of family life as long as he’s this focused on money. But it’s ok. And he’s really not the problem.

The problem is that thousands of his buddies crossed the line into fraud and they’re only now starting to be investigated, much less indicted.

philS,

You wrote that, didn’t you?

Will the writer of the “we eat what we kill” please come forward? Me, you and Dick Cheney are all going quail hunting! Yeah! Christ, I hope Dick is sober, because he has to eat what he kills…

He says “$85,000 a year without an upside” because that is what he thinks he’s going to make after he “steals” the job you have.

This guy is totally an idiot.

The guy reads like a narcissitic sociopath. He, and people like him, are exactly how we got where we are today.

“when our money dries up, so does yours.”

These are the kind of people who believe it’s okay to take food out of the mouths of children just so they don’t have to pay more in taxes.

I personally am looking forward to this guy being taken down a peg or two. I only hope that he was so “busy” from his wall street job that he didn’t have time to reproduce.

You mean like these guys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ba1OKY7Xc

You’re being too hard on PhilS.

He calls the guy a schmuck. I think his point is this guy is only HALF the problem. The other HALF is the enablers in DC. They’re the ones that have allowed the new motto of the US of A to be “greed is good” and are willing to throw 99% of the nation under the bus to save the 1% who are responsible for the idea that money makes the world go round.

Heh

I was the same way.

I felt like bringing up the fact that everytime a worker or job was replaced in the US, Wall Street would cheer and make the excuse that the worker should recognize that he would need to “adapt and retrain because it’s a global economy.”

I thought every single one of those M-Fers should of been told “adapt and retrain mf-ers! Rejoice in the global economy. It’s your turn now. Enjoy YOUR golden years as a Walmart greeter.

Alas, the idiots in Washington softened the blow for the most egregarious of the a-holes.

Remember why the NY Times sent it financial reporter to visit the Occupy Wall Street protesters – a banker thought that maybe this is the leading edge of the revolution. I think that the Wall Street parasites fully expect their behavior to lead to violence, and they expect that their wealth will protect them from its consequences if they can get the timing right. WIth elites like that, the sooner politics by means outside our closed political system start, the better.

That nice Mr Pierce (see blogroll above) just referenced this post, as well as last Thursday’s, and favorably. He also endorsed the growing Bob Dylan for Nobel Prize movement. The odds are apparently down to 10 to 1, so I cannot really recommend a flutter, but it’s a lovely thought.

I can just imagine this twerp pretending to be a teacher and terrorising seven year olds. Their soccer moms would tear him to pieces, actually the seven year olds might do it.

you know, that sounds like an awesome movie pitch. srsly!

The fact that this spoiled self-important asshole refers to what he does as “work” is an insult to everyone of us who actually does work for a living but are not adequately compensated for our efforts. 3 hr business lunches isn’t work. Robbing people of their pensions and life savings isn’t “work” it’s a crime. And the fact that this jackass keeps his pager on 24/7 is not the equivalent of working a 15 hour day. I call complete bullshit on everything this parasite is saying.

TAX THE RICH.

The middle class is too big to fail

I forget who said this, but if I’m so smart, how come I’m not rich?

The inverse of course is just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you are smart. Just lucky. But the old hebrew saying says it best,

When you have change in your pocket, you’re handsome, smart and you can sing a little too!

Yes, yes, before Wall Street, banking, Monsanto. insurance companies, big pharma and Big Oil the human race:

starved to death;
had no homes
froze to death
failed to engage in any meaningful endeavor
failed to provide any level of health care to membera of human society
died attempting to reproduce,

In summary, the human race simply became extinct without these too big to fail institutions.

Oh, wait…

If these a-holes jump, what’s the city going to have to pay for clean-up? When that amount of crap hits the street it’s going to go everywhere.

Bear in mind that the quote is from roughly 4/2010, not that it doesn’t pertain every bit as much today.

Plus ca change … .

Well, now I know how a letter written with one’s head fulla blow reads.

Atlas Shrugged was a satire in which it was posited that people who stand on top of the world also hold it up.

That is the best summary of Ayn Rand’s bullshit I have ever read (although I am not sure AS was intended as satire). Mind if I use that?

they expect that their wealth will protect them from its consequences if they can get the timing right.

Yup. They are already starting to pay for their own private police, e.g., Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase donating $4.6 million — just, you know, in case.

THe suburbanites ARE coming. Long Island Progressive Coalition is marching today with OWS. And Yes We Can LI was there on Monday

Cwaltz – Actuall I don’t think he’s even half the problem. He (if he’s even real) stands for GREED. Greed is not the enemy. If it is we’re SOL, because greed is an integral part of humanity and not something that anyone is ever going to change. Whoever wrote it is just playing with your heads and trying to distract you from the real enemy: breaking laws and getting away with it.

That said, there a couple of laws that need to be enacted (and then enforced) to make this sort of mortgage scandal less likely in the future. At least one of them was on the books but got trashed by Republicans decades ago.

Median for a family of four in the New York area is around $63000 which doesn’t leave a whole lot for much else after feeding and clothing those four people.

I know people who think this economy is just fine because all the restaurants are full when they go out to eat on Long Island. I point out that the north shore of Long Island and New York in general has some fairly high earners living here in addition to the underground cash economy of contractors and the requisite high-end drug dealers (that cocaine that fuels Wall Street doesn’t just get into peoples’ noses, someone’s gotta supply it).

I really, really don’t put a lot of stock into anonymous, “apocryphal” email stories like this. Seems pointless to me. I mock my conservative family members and friends of passing this stuff around, and will do the same with liberals as well.