Thom Hartmann: 1% - It's not about your bank account but your patriotism

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 06:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdaJY7oYr4s   Posted on YouTube: October 31, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: November 01, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 944

 
The bankster 1% in Chicago had a little message they wanted to get out to the 99% movement camped out in the streets below. So someone at the Chicago Board of Trade poured leaflets out of the window - to rain down on the demonstrators below. The leaflets read "We are Wall Street, it is our jobs to make money...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." As we all know today - that's not a threat...it's a promise - Wall Street has never had a problem taking what's not theirs. Whether it was the trillions they took from the economy when they ran their housing bubble scheme - or the trillions more they took from the taxpayers when they demanded a bailout - Wall Street just churns other people's money and skims their vig off the top. And they've been doing it in a pretty outrageous way - what once was considered both an immoral and even illegal way - for the 30 years since Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, leading to an explosion on Wall Street of what was then called M&A or Mergers and Acquisitions business.

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[sabrina 1]

1. I don't think anyone has to worry about the Banksters taking

any real jobs. An idle threat since most of them, not the regular workers like the Secretaries etc, but those responsible for the Economic Meltdown, they could not survive if they did not have ordinary people cleaning for them, cooking, fixing their cars etc.

But the fact they sent those fliers out shows they are nervous of the people finally taking a stand.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Really enjoying your work, Thom! Thanks for posting here!

[Marazinia]

3. I wonder which of the many jobs I've had is best to give them?

Third shift warehouse, breaking my back for 9.00 an hour?
How about customer service rep for 8.00 an hour?
No? Okay, what about waitress, scraping and scurrying for tips?

Oh wait, I've got it!

Third shift gas station cashier.

Then maybe they'll find out what it's like to be on the receiving end of robbery. (Although luckily I never did!)