The bottom line: don't get your hopes up. The government has not declared war on Wall Street even after Wall Street declared war on Main Street. And the media is complicit, even blacking out a march of 15,000 workers on Wall Street.
Wall Street is hardly humbled. Its arrogance was evident in an email the Financial Times says is "pinging around" trading desks. It reads, in part:
"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" 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 aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive."
The gauntlet has been thrown down.
News Dissector Danny Schechter directed PlunderTheCrime Of Our Time (Plunderthecrimeofortime.com), a new DVD that treats the financial crisis as a crime story. Comments to: Dissector@mediachannel.org
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