The latest I get up on a weekday is 5:00AM (usually it's 3:15AM) and I work most days until 7:00PM or so. I haven't had a vacation (a real one - where you do nothing but enjoy yourself) in nearly a decade. I took my family to DisneyWorld over spring break and worked every day I was there. I was up every day at 5:00AM, dialed in on a laptop from the hotel room, and made trades with my blackberry from the Pirates of the Carribean ride.
I'm the walking definition of a guy who got where he is by refusing to take no for an answer, so you can imagine how gratifying I found this email sent to me by a friend today.
We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money. Whether it is 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 have 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 Joe's are still looking for a scapegoat to blame. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, because you are only going to hurt yourselves. What is going to happen when we can't find jobs on the street anymore? Guess what, ...we are going to take yours. We get up at 5am and go out after work till 10pm or later. We are used to not getting up to p*ss 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 are going to devour them as well.
For years teachers and unionize labor has 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 are going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are sooooo underpaid for building the youth of America. Say good bye 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 are going to be making 85k a year without upside, Joe main street is going to have his revenge right? Wrong!!
Guess what....we are going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren'tgoing to leave the 35% tip at our business dinners anymore, no more free rides on our backs. We are going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our drive ways. Our money was your money, because we spent it.
The difference is- you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democrat National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but its really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat asses 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 them, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama is making Joe Main street our food supply... will they?
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Ahhhh.... But, my fat-cat Wall Street friend, what will happen once you find out that we outnumber you? (And by "we" I mean everyone who isn't making an obscene amount of money.)I'll tell you: Little dolls of you will be hanged. You will be burned in effigy. Your multi-story homes and high rises will be looted and burned. Your expensive cars will be totaled. And then you will be lined up and shot down like the mad dogs you are. We are the real America. We make things with our hands. We make the cars you buy, the chairs you sit on. We build your homes and pools. Think you can just waltz in after destroying the economy and expect to take our jobs away? I think not. We have guns, you arrogant, elitist bastards, and we won't hesitate to use them against slime like you.
Oh my... looks like someone missed his nap time today.
Maybe you had better leave this conversation to the grown-ups kid... you aren't fooling anyone.
Silly anonymous boy! Liberals don't have guns, and they sure as hell don't have spines.
Whatever made you think that Wall Street men aren't armed? In fact, their guns are bigger, better, and more numerous.
And here's something else they have that you don't -- brains. They'll outsmart you any day of the week. Face it, you don't stand a chance.
And another thing...
Those (expensive) cars they drive, and those chairs they sit on? You don't make them. They're made by the Japanese and the Germans and the Chinese. You know why? Because your unions do too much whining, and they don't like doing business with whiners. They have no respect for whiners.
Wall Street men don't have unions. They stand individually, each on his own merit. There's no union backing up his ass if he's incompetent. He either produces, or he's out. That's what we like and respect about them. They're not sniveling little children. They're men.
You're too stupid to realize that you're putting yourselves out of business. You are your own worst enemy, and you don't even know it.
So grow up, get real, and get back to work... while you still have a job.
Tom,
Your first paragraph pretty much sums up why I'll never make anywhere near as much as you do. It's also why it has been decades since I felt any real envy towards those in your income bracket.
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