A story about a 1% banker........

And they wonder why us common folk are so upset about the current state of things.......We have spirited discussions about 15% vs. 20% on this forum but this is just flat out wrong.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-no ... 24882.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/2 ... 99280.html

and the gold medal of the douche olympics goes to....

Read the correction on the HuffPo article - the receipt was altered before it was posted to the Future Ex Banker blog (which is now offline).

Remember, we live in the age of easily altered digital photography.

and the gold medal of the douche olympics goes to....

The "employee" that altered and falsified the receipt. Maybe others, but we will never know.

Read the correction on the HuffPo article - the receipt was altered before it was posted to the Future Ex Banker blog (which is now offline).

Just because an overzealous restaurant employee took minor liberties with a restaurant receipt is no reason to stop vilifying executives in the financial sector. Wall Street and the banking sectror worked hard to earn our scorn and (personally) I intend to give it to them.

[Robin Garr]

and the gold medal of the douche olympics goes to....

The "employee" that altered and falsified the receipt. Maybe others, but we will never know.

Parson Weems's story about George Washington and the cherry tree was an alteration and falsification of Washington's biography, as well. But it's a treasured part of American heritage because it illustrates a broader, deeper point in a vivid and memorable message.

In other words, I agree with Daddio Stevio.

So, the receipt was fake but accurate?

[Robin Garr]

So, the receipt was fake but accurate?

It was every bit as accurate as the story about Washington cutting down the cherry tree or throwing the coin across the Rappahannock, or the one about Lincoln hiking 20 miles to pay his 2 cent library fine.

We won't even talk about the bible ...

So, the receipt was fake but accurate?

Steve...You're missing the forest for the trees. The receipt plays but a supporting role in this drama, something to be acknowledged and then dismissed with the wave of a hand. What is important here, slightly-modified receipt aside, is that this is a perfect opportunity to publicly damn a facet of society...Wall Street and the Financial sector in general...that have grown to become a huge weeping pus filed sore on the face of America.

Pass the chips and dip please...

So, the receipt was fake but accurate?

It was every bit as accurate as the story about Washington cutting down the cherry tree or throwing the coin across the Rappahannock, or the one about Lincoln hiking 20 miles to pay his 2 cent library fine.

We won't even talk about the bible ...

Sorry, but I beg to differ. Those stories take historical figures with known positive qualities, and attributing said good qualities to their younger selves to emphasize the positive and develop additional role models for our children.

This story takes a supposed banker (no one knows who he actually is - maybe the forger???) who left an approximate 20% tip (did a good job), and then alters it to make a total non-sequitor that all bankers are evil.

Well, maybe bankers are evil, maybe the "real" tipper was a banker (who wasn't evil in terms of tipping), maybe anything, but to put this in the same realm as the positive allegories - or to say that even though this whole thing is made up goes to show we should vilify bankers - just doesn't follow!

I'm not saying bankers are "good people", or even that good tippers are good people, just that some idiot made up a story to demonstrate a point of view that could have been demonstrated with FACTS, not innuendo. The net result of this process is that - after people find out that the whole story is a fake - people will become more callous to such stories, and actually will be less likely to believe a true story against bankers later on!

I'm sorry, but this is not the same thing as saying that "honest Abe" was honest as a kid, since he hiked to pay a library fine. There is a lot one can say against Obama, a lot one can say against Santorum, et al, but the TV ads are almost universally untruths, and I prefer not to believe them and not to believe this.

Woebeit for me if I were to defend the financial peeps, but the genesis for this whole mess was the "too big to fail" financial institutions in cahoots with the Federal government, including but not limited to the regulators, the office of the President, and especially Congress for setting it all up.

So, ridiculing the financial types is casting too small a net. Plus, no need to make up fake stuff, there's plenty of facts to hang them with already.

I can't be the only thirty something (alright almost forty something) on this board who grew up idolizing Alex P Keaton and his capitalist ways. Any others?

So, ridiculing the financial types is casting too small a net.

Ungawah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ndsXVaPwc

Just "write in" the Daddio of the Patio on your next election ballot I'll get this sh** squared away.

So, ridiculing the financial types is casting too small a net.

Ungawah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ndsXVaPwc

Just "write in" the Daddio of the Patio on your next election ballot I'll get this sh** squared away.

I don't think we'd agree on everything. Just let me know though, and I'll keep my Democratic registration so I can vote for you over Yarmuth! !

Note: That is not a redundant exclamation point.