Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Main Street vs. Wall Street

This got started with the financial melt-down Bush gifted us with, and the ham-handed attempts to solve it through bailouts and relief programs.  Most pundits note that stock brokers and investment banks did better during the melt-down, financially, than they did before it, while the rest of us lost our homes, jobs, insurance, and life savings.

The phrase is "clever" because of the repeat of the word "street", but it got so very tired so very quickly.

What is meant is "The financial sector vs. the middle class".  Let's say what we mean.

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