Wall Street excited about bank merger and fact that 3,900 jobs will

[Jon8503]

be lost if the deal goes through. Wall Street always happy about workers losing their jobs but they cannot understand why we don't understand how great the Bush economy is.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Who's merging now?

And why aren't the anti-trust people DOING something about it?

(Second question is rhetorical.)

[ronnykmarshall]

3. The Bank of New York and Mellon Bank

[Joanne98]

2. Another merger? Pretty soon we'll have just one bank.. CHASE!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Nah, make it more basic: just the Federal Reserve bank

to control every aspect of your life without the franchises.

[sharp_stick]

5. That's why I hate stock analysts

Everytime you hear about thousands of people getting booted off a companies payroll these leeches can't wait to crack the champagne. It's all about growth and the bottom line to them.

I did get a bit of a shadenfrude (sp?) feeling one time when a big stock analysis group let go a bunch of people several years ago though. But it was short lived when I realized a bunch more people were on the dole.

[datadiva]

6. Mergers should be delcared illegal

for the next 100 years!

[Jim__]

7. Which just goes to show the brilliance of Wall Street analysts.

All these mega-corporations are dependent upon customers. And laid-off workers don't make good customers.

[blues90]

8. Great , I wish there was a true tally of how many jobs went in 6 years

and how may (REAL) jobs were created just since bush jumped into office . I can't imagine how many more jobs will vanish with what time we have left .

No one can survive on min wage unless they have a paid for home and never need anything for years to come .

Anyone could be outsourced or downsized and loose everything . It pains me deeply how much trouble many people are in now and I am one of them so I know all about the mental stress one goes through where it is a fight to live or give up and die with no future that holds any hope of ever getting back to a good living and the older you become the more difficult this is , trust me on that one.

We make nothing here anymore so what about all those who worked for years doing a job that is now suddenly obsolete or pays $5.00 per hour due to the mass of workers fighting for that one job left .