This anonymous e-mail has been circulating around Wall Street

companies and news publications since 29 April 2010.

“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s 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’ve 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 Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there
has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves.
What’s 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 5am & 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’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’ll eat that.
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’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months
off a year and 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 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’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is
going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the
new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners
anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re 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.

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 it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es 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. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe
Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”