Apparently this email is circulating around Wall Street. I’d like to think it was a parody of a stock broker about to go postal, but apparently it’s the real deal:

I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.

Actually, it’s not a problem until you realize that you’re gambling with other people’s money, paying it into mortgage derivatives that were all premised on the idea that the housing bubble would never pop. This is a bit like saying, “Everyone really enjoyed running up massive debts on their credit cards until the credit card bill came due.” Parties are great fun, but if it’s all going to turn into the Masque of the Red Death, who the $#!!* needs it?

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… Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.

Sir or madam: you know how many teachers have already lost their jobs?

(h/t Daily Kos)

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