Bankers View OWS with Disdain: "it's people who have the time to do this..."

[amborin]

In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters As "Unsophisticated"

Publicly, bankers say they understand the anger at Wall Street — but believe they are misunderstood
by the protesters camped on their doorstep.
But when they speak privately, it is often a different story.

“Most people view it as a ragtag group looking for sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll,” said one top hedge fund manager.

“It’s not a middle-class uprising,” adds another veteran bank executive. “It’s fringe groups.
It’s people who have the time to do this.”

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Some on Wall Street viewed the protesters with disdain, and a degree of caution, as hundreds
marched through the financial district on Friday. Others say they feel their pain, but are
befuddled about what they are supposed to do to ease it. A few even feel personally attacked,
and say the Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been in Zuccotti Park for weeks are just
bitter about their own economic fate and looking for an easy target. If anything, they say,
people should show some gratitude.

“Who do you think pays the taxes?” said one longtime money manager.
“Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country
and do it well. Let’s embrace it. If you want to keep having jobs outsourced,
keep attacking financial services. This is just disgruntled people.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/business/in-private-conversation-wall-street-is-more-critical-of-protesters.html?_r=1&ref=business

[cutlassmama]

1. Perhaps they should offer jobs then and people won't have time to do this

[FirstLight]

2. disconnected asshats

who pays the taxes? AYFKM? ...and the reason middle class people HAVE the time to doi this is because they are homeless, jobless, and at the end of their rope.

keep talking smack, your time will be over soon enough :mad:

[Harmony Blue]

3. They are so out of touch

Millions unemployed...it doesn't matter what is, or was, their economic status...they all are unemployed and sinking down on the ladder. Someone who used to make 50k versus 25k are both in a world of hurt without a job.

[EFerrari]

4. "just disgruntled people"

Stupid mutherf#ckers.

[PETRUS]

5. "“Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country"

Is that a self-defeating statement or what?

Then the speaker follows with a lie: "and do it well."

Absolutely false!!!

[Marr]

15. Exactly! "Our jobs are the only ones we haven't shipped overseas! Show some gratitude!"

[L0oniX]

6. ...and the more you layoff people the more will join OWS.

[Vincardog]

7. WE need to start building guillotines outside their offices. WTF do they thing is driving the wages

down? THEY ARE

[leftstreet]

8. If I were looking for 'sex and rock and roll' I wouldn't go to Wall Street. Drugs maybe

What a moron

Doe he realize 25+ million Americans are unemployed, their ranks are growing, and they do indeed have time on their hands?

[Maeve]

9. "And while we're at it--let them eat ho-hos!" eom

[blindpig]

10. Assholes....

they still won't get it when their tumbril arrives.

[Downtown Hound]

11. The day we are rid of these useless asshats will be a great day indeed. n/t

[Odin2005]

12. Of with their heads!

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Assholes need what they call shitheads

Its part of the trickle down theory.

[kestrel91316]

14. Perilously close to "let them eat cake". Let the heads roll.

[Desertrose]

16. ...and they remain clueless greedy fools.

[Glimmer of Hope]

17. More out of touch rich people who live in a bubble...

[Capitalocracy]

18. I don't ever want to hear again that these people are "smart".

My God.

[dana_b]

19. "thank you sir, may I have another"?

is that what they expect?? Well they can f*** off.

As far as feeling attacked - they have no real idea what that feels like. :nopity:

[Aerows]

20. Here's a thought

How about offering some LOANS to small businesses so they can EMPLOY people, and then they won't have either the time nor the inclination to protest. Oh, and how about a little health insurance, too. People surprisingly enough get pissed off when there are no jobs, they don't have health insurance, and they are so deeply in debt they can't see a way out.