{"id":1114,"date":"2011-10-29T18:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-10-29T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T02:08:35","slug":"message-from-wall-street-to-occupy-we-are-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/message-from-wall-street-to-occupy-we-are-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Wall Street to #Occupy: We Are Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

The origin of this is supposedly dropped leaflets onto the Occupy FLEAs in Chicago’s financial district. Whoever wrote this BLESS YOU!!<\/p>\n

\"\"“We Are Wall Street<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s our job to make money. Whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 13,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a problem until you lose. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.<\/p>\n

Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back some whatever, 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.<\/p>\n

\"\"Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re only going to hurt yourselves. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 4am and 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll eat that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year 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 half.<\/strong> I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team to $5k extra a summer, thank you very much. So now that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be making $8k a year without upside, Joe Main street is going to have his revenge right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 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 that, and we are going to survive.<\/strong> The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Main street our food supply\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6will he? And will they?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The origin of this is supposedly dropped leaflets onto the Occupy FLEAs in Chicago’s financial district. Whoever wrote this BLESS YOU!! “We Are Wall Street It’s our job to make money. Whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a commodity,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1131,232,29,1579],"tags":[1337,1351,1582,1581,4,651,317,1580,872,801,1562,240],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}