Who is Wall Street?

Wall Street is the current scape goat for 2 generations or politicians who didn't have the right stuff to manage a country.

It's evil because all scape goats must be evil in order to draw fire away from the real culprits.

They are evil because they are Fat Cats.

Not all of them are evil. Just enough to screw up the works. If we could keep the politicians out of business it would improve things. A 700 billion infusion for wall street that will go mostly to the crooks both business and political.

Money for nothing, and kicks for free.

meet the scapegoat :





i'm sure you'll be smitten by my knowledge , dys .
i'm glad to share it with you .
hbg

What I know for sure is that Wall Street is not responsible for the financial crisis nor the bail out. The term merely stands for people, or companies who invest money.

Enron invested in stocks sold on Wall Street, but Wall Street wasn't responsible for Enron's appalling greed.

diane posted :



it seems to me that the wallstreeters were certainly happy participants . they gladly gave a helping hand in fleecing many investors - and they didn't mind collecting their commissions .
(after all , somehow they had to pay for their monster homes on long island - what choice did they have , live in an "ordinary" house ? ) .
hbg

All right, all right, I'll 'fess up. I am Wall Street. Yup, that's my real name. I picked Merry Andrew as a nom-de-net to throw you all off the track. But now that Dys has found me out, I might as well tell you I ain't no more evil than the next fella. ('Course I'm standing next to Atilla the Hun as I write this.) And I plan to put that money -- what is it? $700b U.S.? -- to good and benevolent use. There's a charitable organization called The Merry Andrew Fund which does some really great relief work in economically-challened places like Waikiki Beach and the Playas of Cancun, Mexico and Barbados and...and...well, I'll just have to investigate the others.

merry andrew :

have you submitted your application for part of the "700" to treasury secretary paulson yet ?
if you prefer , you may also apply for the total amount .
just trying to help another a2k member in need .
hbg

Hah, I just found this thread again. Hamburger, I think Merry Andrew, AKA Wall Street, works for AIG...need I say more?

Damn, you folks are sharp. Can't a guy have any secrets on A2K?

Well, you betcha!