Quote from flytiger:
I don't need people "on my side". I need people to understand right from wrong. To understand what's at stake, and to understand that there is an alternative to naked short selling, it's call "short selling", and I do it.
Guys like you - incorrigible. Somewhere along the line, you missed the "integrity train. " That's fine. I've fought you guys longer than most of you punks have been adults, and I use the term "adults" loosely. I suggest you go look at the PBS thead, where the lady was ignored. Look at the downside that ensued. Somewhere in your life, you might do what's right for the sake of what's right. I just dont' expect it to be today.
The stakes are very very high. Naked short selling creates huge leverage, and threatens the very existence of the system. I expect you to stick up for your employer. Just like my Doctor. His kid worked for a hedgefund. We talked about it. I was crazy, but his kid was honest. Guess who's unemployed?
You cant be the honest man in a whorehouse. I wouldn't expect you to understand, Hedgie.
Fly
Startups can't get capitol to manufacture in this country and industry has been systematically looted and I am a HEDGIE?
Nope I am the unconnected industrial prey of Wall Street.
Try raising capitol for an industrial company in the US after 1984.
Naked short selling is only part of it.
I worked for a company called Tool Research that had an R&D budget and retained earnings to smooth the boom/bust cycle of aerospace.
Because we had money and no debt we were subjected to the KKR takeover/bid proxy fight/ White Nite buyout looting destruction in 1988. We went from 2500 employees to 70 after they made half a billion liquidating our assets and reselling the company plus a 250 million dollar tax write off. I have seen this happen to alloy makers and welding materials suppliers and just about everyone that I deal with over and over and over again, their retained earnings get transferred to the takeover artists every 3 years until a bad patch in the economy coincides with the last looting and the companies go bankrupt.
These hedge funds AND Investment banks are parasites that ate the host and blamed the resulting destruction on the unions being paid too much.
We were doing FINE before the buyout. Union labor and all. (And I am not a union member but the one thing that business depends on is customers and if all the jobs are McJobs then only bankers and hedges will be able to patronize anything other than McDonnels and Walmart.)
The only thing the unions had to do with it is that a lot of the money borrowed to make the LBO tender offers and ship their jobs offshore was borrowed from insurance companies and pension funds. They used the union's own money for the buyout that put the union members (and me) out of work.
Investment banks are supposed to fund industry, not loot it or sell stock that does not exist to the point that proxy votes are decided by the votes of counterfeit shares.
But the government was captured LONG ago and the Madoff exemption for Market Makers that allows them to do naked shorts was only the formalization of a practice in place since the 80s.
The looting mechanetions of the Wall Street financial complex have destroyed American Industry and for the good of the country has to be stopped.
