Our super-rich elites - enough to gag a maggot

i don't know how reading a story like this makes YOU feel, but i know it makes ME want to scream, jump up and down and run gagging to the bathroom to toss my cookies...

Signs of Swagger, Wallets Out, Wall St. Dares to Indulge

Exuberance made a comeback this year at Josh Koplewicz’s annual Halloween party. More than 1,000 people packed into a 6,000-square-foot space at the Good Units night club in Manhattan, a substantially larger crowd than in the last several years. The open bar was sponsored by Russian Standard vodka, and Mr. Koplewicz, an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, was able to snag a big headliner: the hip-hop star Lil’ Kim, who performed dressed in a black cat costume.

The scene was more extravagant in September, at a 50th birthday party in Hong Kong for Brian Brille, the head of Bank of America Asia Pacific. Mr. Brille, who is well known on the New York social scene, wore a gray Hugh Hefner-esque jacket. Women dressed like Playmates, with feather boas and satin ears, danced behind a pink silk screen.

Two years after the onset of the financial crisis, the stock market is recovering and Wall Street’s moneyed elite are breathing easier again. And this means in some cases they are spending again — at times cautiously, but sometimes with a familiar swagger.

"official" u.s. unemployment continues to hover above 9% while our congress fails to approve an extension of unemployment benefits, millions are subsisting on food stamps, millions more are being tossed out of their homes, the entire financial services industry continues to run out of control, and accountability for the rich and powerful has all but disappeared, but wall street is back to its old ways... as crude as it may sound to say it, they can all go fuck themselves...

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