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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 11:41 AM
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Wall Street and Main Street are two different planets
1. Wall streeters are loved by ReThugs. Main Streeters exist to be milked and bilked.

2. Wall Streeters are eligible for bailouts. Main Streeters are eligible for food stamps (maybe).

3. Wall Streeters are entitled to any and all tax breaks. Main streeters pay for them.

4. Main streeters are permitted to invest in Wall Street. Wall Streeters are permitted to lick their chops while scamming Main streeters.

5. Wall streeters never lose. Main streeters never win more than the table scraps.

6. Wall streeters love unregulated capitalism. Main streeters love the version of American capitalism they have been conned into believing exists.

7. Wall streeters are eying your social security benefits. Some brain-dead Main streeters think this is just dandy.

8. Most Main streeters care about there neighbors. Wall streeters care about getting hold of your neighbors savings, as well as yours.

Yeah, I know, these are some pretty big generalities. However, someone is going to have to explain to me why Wall streeters get bailed out when the shit hits the fan, why we main streeters are the ones doing the bailing out, and why it is that we never get bailed out when we're drowning.
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