Should WALL STREET talk to MAIN STREET on OPRAH?

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Posted on Nov 6, 2009 12:41 AM


Today I heard on the news that Wall Street's Goldman-Sach's received 200 H1N1 vaccines for its employees, the same amount received by New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. The reporter went on to say that while Goldman'Sach's employees were part of the greater New York population, they were probably not in as dire need of the vaccine as the thousands of Lenox Hill patients lining up for the vaccine, like pregnant women, children and so on. How did Goldman-Sach's acquire the precious commodity, at a time when there doesn't seem to be enough to go around? Maybe money and power is at work behind the scenes. After all, Goldman-Sach's and the company which owns the rights to distribute the vaccine are businesses, not philanthropists. Profits for themselves are first and foremost; the public figures in at a distant second, if at all.

Can Goldman-Sach's be philanthropic? Would their employees consider going to the "back of the line" and waiting their turn like the rest of us? Does Goldman-Sach's give back to the community in which they work, in which they make millions in profits? Perhaps "giving" is not part of the fabric of Wall Street. Will we ever know?

Perhaps Oprah would invite Wall Street employees to tell us about their lives in the current economy. They might include managers, brokers, admin assistants, mailpersons, "runners" on the floor of the stock exchange. I'd like to hear their stories. I'm sure millions of viewers would tune in to Oprah to hear Wall Street "talk" to Main Street. After all, there are always 2 sides to every tale. Have they faced foreclosures? Have they collected unemployment? Are they affording college tuitions for their kids?

I'm for everyone living "happily ever after", no matter their status. We all deserve to live our best lives. I'm just not sure we all are.

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1. Re: Should WALL STREET talk to MAIN STREET on OPRAH?
Nov 6, 2009 9:40 AM   |   In response to: hugmamma


HAH!

Like that's ever going to happen!

Wall Street doesn't talk to Main Street. It talks AT Main Street! The flippant, bullying, self-important therapsids!

Of course, Wall Street may pretend they talk to Main Street -- like when they need to con various impressionable people into an "Astroturf movement" to protest against and dismantle health reform, insurance reform, trade regulations, energy and environmental reforms, and anything else which is a potential threat to their profit margins and mind control.

Always remember that Wall Street always considers Main Street to be beneath them -- even though we are utterly dependent on Main Street's money and blind obedience.

There would be no "teabaggers" without a cadre of Wall Street weasels and their Conservative cronies whipping them on.

Shameful!

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2. Re: Should WALL STREET talk to MAIN STREET on OPRAH?
Nov 6, 2009 9:53 AM   |   In response to: hugmamma


Or as Moe Howard of the Three Stooges once mentioned in a political speech:

"This country needs land reform and tax reform, but all we get is chloroform."

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3. Re: Should WALL STREET talk to MAIN STREET on OPRAH?
Nov 6, 2009 10:33 AM   |   In response to: hugmamma


Who is in charge of distributing the vaccine? Health & Human Services, the Government. Who received a bailout? Goldman Sachs. Are there any former employees of Goldman Sachs who work for the Obama administration? Yes, many. John Corzine worked for Goldman Sachs. Come on people, follow the money and connect the dots. What concerns me is you are talking about rationing based on who they work for. Maybe some of the fears about this healthcare bill people have are not so offbase after all. You can say what you want about the tea party movement, but what has amazed me, is how many truths have been revealed about politicians and our government since regular people who only have their vote and the money they contribute to these same politicians started demanding the truth. I have a feeling the more people demand the truth, the more corruption will be revealed. It's about time we go back to the majority rule, after all, isn't that what democracy really stands for?

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4. Re: Should WALL STREET talk to MAIN STREET on OPRAH?
Nov 10, 2009 10:03 AM   |   In response to: skatchis


Yeah, but what if the "majority" is undereducated, bigoted, superstitious, fawningly deferring to THE MEDIA, reactionary, and possibly even INSANE?

"Majority rule" doesn't always mean "mob rule" -- but who in their right mind would seriously consider the all-too-obvious idiocy of the Palin-Heads, the Westboro Baptist Church, and so many of these "tea-baggers" who seem more interested in screaming their paranoias than discussing issues -- much less negotiating them?

Indeed, if any of those ids ever saw a John Waters movie called Pecker, they would NEVER call themselves "tea-baggers".

Let's face it: the majority of Americans nowadays "think" with their gallbladders rather than their brains. We would have wound up NUKING Afghanistan if they had their way.

I'm not defending oligarchy, mind you, but Americans need to start boning up on their intelligence, empathy, and sense of resonsibility before "majority rule" can truly be considered the very best option.

We have come such a long way down.

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