Back in the '60s, ungrateful hippie protesters spat on soldiers coming back from Vietnam; today the ungrateful rabble hurls invective at brave, patriotic bankers in the financial sector. It's true, insists one "handsome" young banker "with slightly mean-looking eyes" in a priceless New York Observer profile. "I had these big dreams when I was a kid to help people," whines the anonymous young tool. "But it’s much harder than one might think. You have to do your job. You’re in the Army, and they send you to Vietnam. It’s not a good war, but they tell you to shoot. You shoot. It’s very complicated, but people don’t see that." Damn, if he thinks it's tough now, just wait until he rotates back to the world and the flashbacks start. Someday, this mortgage-backed derivative security financial crisis is gonna end.
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