Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Midwest I-Banker Flys Blames Wall Street with "You're All Gonna Get Fired" Sky Banner



Consumerist - Earlier today, an airplane buzzed Wall Street towing a banner that said, "Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired." Update: FORTUNE got in touch with the person who flew it. She's a Midwestern mother and an investment banker. Last night the woman shot up in bed with the burning conviction that she needed to take her rage over the economic quagmire right to the doorsteps of those she felt responsible for it. "I originally wanted to fly it over Washington, D.C., but learned that you can't do that," she told FORTUNE. "So I chose Wall Street instead, but didn't specifically intend it to fly over S&P. I'm just a mother from St. Louis who feels the only reason we got downgraded was people in politics."

The nerve on this uppity broad, right? Trying to play it off like she's just some main street mother from the heartland of America, just outraged about what the liberal elite are doing to this country...meanwhile she's just your average I-banker, probably rolling in piles of toxic mortgage backed security money.  

This is so conniving I can't do anything but applaud it.  I mean it can't be easy being an I-banker in the Midwest, the local yokels always looking at you dis-trustingly, thinking you're one of us east coast, learn-ed folk, never quite trusting you enough to turn over their investment planning to you...well this'll change that fast.  No better way to gain the trust of the simpletons than to dump on Wall Street, the only reason you even have a job in your profession to begin with...genius...She's probably rolling in farm land subsidies and pork belly futures right now.