Treasury Secretary Snow tours NYSE

[Joanne98]

Mr. Snow met with workers on the trading floor of the Stock Exchange and thanked them for showing up in record numbers Monday morning, the day after the alert was issued. August is traditionally the biggest vacation month for workers in New York's financial sector, but Mr. Snow said more employees came to work than on any other August Monday in the history of the Exchange. The Treasury Secretary said the employees showed that Americans will not be intimidated.

"They are not going to be cowed," he said. "They are going to keep this vitally important exchange open so the investors of the world can trade, so that our capital markets that are at the center of a successful world economy, so that our capital markets remain open. The New York Stock exchange is open for business and sure we have got security, we need security, we need to be more vigilant. But as we're more vigilant, we are not going to give up what the American way of life is all about. We are not going to go into foxholes. We are going to continue to be New Yorkers and Americans, living our lives and enjoying the fruits of liberty in this great country

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What an asshole!!!!!!!!

[cprise]

1. More like a blood-sucking capitalist

[teryang]

2. WTF?

Welcome to propagandaland. The stock market sucks. It must be the terrorists.

[54anickel]

3. Hmm, I'd like to see some proof of that record attendance, not that I'm

cynical or anything. Show me the proof and I'll lay odds there was a memo out begging, if not mandating, they all show up for work that day.
I'd like to be able to stop thinking this way, it's really a downer, but I don't believe anything this idiots say.