During this unpredictable time, maybe we should ask ourselves what characters are we trying to portray? How does our role-playing affect our future? And in a perfect world, who should we be emulating?

Thank you for you investigative reporting. As so many of us try to get by less than $50,000 a year, when you read this you realize that these people have hearts of stone. How can you be so wealthy and ignore the people after a hurricane that have no home? How can you ignore those with no food? Hearts stone and hopefully a soon to be extinct branch of our species. They could have bought module homes for many homeless people without ever missing the money. Take a million from your purse or pocket! Give up swandering wealth. Grow up. Evolve in to a better person!

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Work hard? Play hard? Get real! I was a teacher for over 30 years. Now who works hard? How about firemen/women, police, rescue squads, doctors, construction workers and more? They make it all sound like the patricians and plebians of Ancient Rome. Yes, I do hope they fiddled like Nero and that their Rome is burning down around them! Enough! If they can't share their undeserved bounty send them back to preschool where sharing to taught!

In a perfect world, we wouldn't be emulating anyone. And it won't be a perfect world until we cease to try. In today's world, everyone seems to be emulating Paris Hilton and her male counterpart, whomever that might be. I, for one, am tired of looking up the skirt of every woman that appears in any type of media, and watching fat, bearded guys in $45,000 pickup trucks try to look tough. Personally, I prefer to make every effort to be a rational, reasonable, and unique individual.

Wall Street, AIG, Banking Industry, etc., heads should roll, I'm so infuriated with the whole fiasco were in. I've worked my way through college, became an engineer, pay my bills on time, work hard, am a single father of three kids. I take no vacation. Now my tax dollars are going (against my wishes) to pay all these bastards off. I'm angy as hell.

That is so on target!! I think you are on to something that has been happening for the last couple of years with the middle class, the CEO's just didn't see it coming. I started this middle class behavior 6 years ago, it just now finally has taken affect as a whole around the country. So we will see how the CEO's can afford their 7 mansions since we are not feeding the markets anymore.

Hat is off to you!!

I have read Jordan Belfort's book The Wolf of Wall Street and have seen the movie Wall Street several times. It is easy to envy their lifestyles and want to emmulate their actions. They portray themselves as having it all: success, power, expensive cars and toys, women, etc. They are on top of the world characters. After reading Belfort's book I personally became more aggressive in my business dealings and found myself mimicking his behavior in the business world and in social settings. These characters become cult figures to individuals who crave their lifestyles, and just like Belfort followed Gordon Gekko's ways in the movie Wall Street, there are thousands of people that will look up to Mr. Belfort after reading his book and will continue his excessive life on Wall Street.

I find it difficult to believe that someone addicted to that much juice is reformed. He reads like am escapee from the Warner Bros. cartoon vault. I am in the process of rehabilitating my life as well. My excess was living in fear- of success. Having everything that people value taken away from me due to bad decisions and financial loss, I am living without less -burden, debt, obligation and fear. I am at my most creative in years, and have kicked my anti-depressant to the curb.

We all have to get back to the awe and wonder of dreaming and spend less time about acquiring things of deprecating value. Everything that I ever bought has depreciated in value over time. Well, at least it was a net loss. My investment in my friends and family has always paid off in the short and long run.

Our country would benefit from a renaissance of sharing. Back in the day when everyone didn't have everything, we could cont on our network of neighbors and friends to help us get through the day. We need to dream about our kids, dream about our relationships, dream about tour futures, dream about what we will leave behind one day. I'm not a monkee, but we could use a few more daydream believers on Main st., Wall St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Now, I know where and who's enjoying my 104k. Someone allowed the weasel to guard the hen house. This only adds to the screams that are circulating in society. It's like the rape victim paying the attacker! Once again the powers that be have asked John and Jeanette Q Public to "tighten the belts" once again. Let's see, I've heard that quotation around 5 or 6 times. "Ouch" my belt is past the last hole,and you're asking me to create another one. Oh well, the belt just broke! I won't ask the powers that be to give me relief, they have enjoyed their fat cat life styles for quite a few years at the regular people's expense. Oh God, I know you see this please help! I don't know how you will begin to clean house, but please do it soon. I am running out of beans to cook.

I love how these people who after getting rich, and living the life suddenly find themselves on the downside, or out of a job all together suddenly come to this rationalization about "gee i woke up in my 50,000 square foot house, with my private yachts, and 18 cars by my cuddly man servant and realized that there was more to life then money." why is that people seem to come to this point only after they have made their mark either honestly or off of the 401k's of their investors and suddenly i am supposed to take their words as if they came from a burning bush?? 22 months in a Club Fed for 100 million. wow if i ever get in trouble will your attorney rep me?? You disgust me.

More and more average jos are getting as mad as previous blogs report. When the proletariat finally bands together to defeat wallstreet and the banks it is really simple. Stop paying your credit card bills, stop buying the fashion item of the week and go to survival mode. When the money stops moving and the credit balloon is deflated, the banks fail and the economy comes to a halt, we will all then be at the same level. That's called sharing the wealth.

I worked at a "brokerage" that was a spinoff of Stratton Oakmont right in the middle of that time. I was in the thick of all of this garbage. I remember being hired at one of these firms as a "management trainee". They put that out there in the classifieds just to attract young job seekers into the office. When they got you in there, they would dazzle you with tales and examples of how these other guys, who were no different from you, were making $20,000 a month. The promise of being able to make enough, not just to support yourself but rather to "do better than your dad did" was very attractive.

After being in it for a while, the truth started to become apparent. The bottom line is we were recommending stocks that had no chance; and we were profiting from it. The owners of these firms were masters of rationalization but eventually, truth has the ability to dig out a pit in your stomach that forces you to admit what you're really doing.

I left the business at that point. Many of my colleagues are still in it to this day. I've asked the Lord for forgiveness for my part in this and I know that He has forgiven me. I've never made the same amount of income since those days and in many ways have struggled financially. The Lord has always provided, though. The greatest gift I've received through all of this is His grace and my character.

When I first opened CNN.com today and saw Jordan Belfort there with his tan and the picture of his infamous yacht (the yacht was almost iconic in that all the young brokers viewed it as the ultimate emblem of success), my first reaction was to write something negative and accusing. After writing here, I hope that he has asked the Lord for forgiveness. You see, paying back reparations, no matter how much, don't matter to the Lord. Genuinely asking Him forgiveness, accepting the gift of His grace and living the rest of your days within that grace is the ONLY way to make good on it.

It may have begun with Wall Street, Lending/Banking Institutions, Lehman, AIG, etc., but what makes it so insidious is that our Government as a whole succumbed to the lure(s) of this perceived wealth, became complacent with regulation and in some instances dipped into the well of corruption and thievery. David, like you, I've worked hard, timely paid my debt and live within my means and manage to eek out a savings (now greatly diminished). I shake my head with dismay and hear the cliche "performance is punishing" ... Yes, we who follow the rules are taking a beating, but I believe all those who have lived their lives with greed will get the biggest shaking up (justifiably so). The rumblings of the People Are Mad As Hell And Aren't Going To Take It Any More is resounding throughout the U.S. and World and maybe, just maybe, this time We will prevail and a sense of normalcy and well-being will be returned for at least a majority. The Tech bubble popped, the Housing bubble popped, and now "Pop Goes the Weasel" with the Greed bubble explosion. The doors of shady dealing are being flung open on Corporate America, and we are becoming aware of just who is that man behind the curtain of manipulation. I believe Accountability will be the new "it" word and figuratively "heads WILL roll". We thus can restore the basic and good fundamentals of our society ... If I had a crystal ball my feeling is that a bright future looms ahead; let's just hope it is sooner rather than later.

As I sit in my office, a very small not for profit builders association, losing members daily because they cannot get work, build houses(no credit for buyers) I am sickened knowing that these "wall street geniuses" so they think, made that kind of money off of my members and me! I think they should all give back what they have taken from us. They should have community service to see how bad it really is. Go to Louisiana and Texas and get their hands dirty helping out the people who they have stole from and help rebuild these areas. I am sure more than a few of them would quit within an hour because it is too much work for them since they have sat in their very expensive leather chairs for so long they don't know how to really work. e1438dca32