Don Salyards writes about his plumber:
Welcome to Wall Street. That’s Wall Street in Winona, Minnesota where Boomer (Steven) Zolondek has taken risks, hired employees, paid taxes, and successfully run his plumbing business for 29 years.
Boomer has spent a lifetime clearing drains, busting up concrete, and installing those new water-saving toilets. Like most people in Winona, Minnesota and the rest of America, Boomer doesn’t shy away from hard work. Boomer knows that you never borrow money you can’t repay. He doesn’t think anyone is “too big to fail”.
Three years ago, Boomer didn’t get a 20 million dollar Christmas bonus for bundling up a bunch of “liar loans” into some worthless hedge fund. Now the politicians in Washington want Boomer to bail out the big shots and Ivy-League educated MBA’s that work on the other Wall Street in New York. A “Boomer Bailout” he calls it.
Boomer’s not having anything of it and neither should you. It’s time for our Politicians to get a whiff of the kind of reality that Boomer experiences every day at the corner of 8th and Wall Street in Winona, Minnesota.
Call your Senators and Congressman today. Tell them you don’t want any bailouts for anyone, period. Tell them that those investment bankers on Wall Street should reap the losses they have sewn. They’ll survive and learn from their mistakes, just like Boomer and the rest of us. America will be stronger as a result.
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