[timmac]

Airplane Circling Wall Street With Banner: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired'

On Tuesday, less than a week after Standard and Poor's downgraded U.S. credit for the first time in history, a plane circled lower Manhattan with a banner that read: "Thanks for the downgrade. You should all be fired," according to a tweet by AmericanBanker. It has since come out that the stunt was paid for by an unnamed broker from St. Louis, according to Fortune.

But if the patron had gotten her first choice, the plane would have been circling another city center.

"I originally wanted to fly it over Washington, D.C., but learned that you can't do that," she told Fortune anonymously, for fear of losing her job. "So I chose Wall Street instead, but didn't specifically intend it to fly over S&P."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/airplane-downgrade-wall-street-s-and-p_n_922565.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009&ref=fb&src=sp

Folks and Peakers, I feel and see and hear from common people, news reporters, politicians, etc, etc, that things are heating up, this nation is dividing fast, we got the tea party's are mad, politicians are mad and calling each other names, stock brokers are mad, business people are mad, teachers are mad, there is tension in the air, if things don't calm down soon I am not sure what will happen, this 2012 election is going to be a mad house..

[americandream]

Petulant infantilism. A free market is a free market, warts and all.

[Keith_McClary]

I feel and see and hear from common people, news reporters, politicians, etc, etc, that things are heating up, this nation is dividing fast, we got the tea party's are mad, politicians are mad and calling each other names, stock brokers are mad, business people are mad, teachers are mad, there is tension in the air, if things don't calm down soon I am not sure what will happen, this 2012 election is going to be a mad house..

Us fuuriners don't get to vote in your free democratic-republicon elections, so we must content ourselves with

[Oneaboveall]

Anyone make a Joe Stack joke yet?

[dolanbaker]

The message would have had more impact if he'd flown it into the building.

[Sixstrings]

The guys who work on Wall Street are there to make money for their hedge funds, their banks, and themselves. They don't care about a US downgrade -- only how to make money off it. They will never turn down free quantitative easing cash for the good of the country. Capital knows no borders, when one particular country is cleaned out they'll just move on to the next.

As America crumbles, Manhattan and the Hamptons are doing just fine.