1%ers That Need A Hug (...And, Any Extra-Change You've Got)!

[Mr. Shaman]

"It isn't easy to get the super-rich to discuss their money woes, and the Rev. Chuck Davis, who runs the Stanwich Church here in the hedge-fund capital of the world, has tried. His flock includes the mandarins of finance who've lost fortunes in the stock market debacle. In a recent sermon, he urged parishioners to simply admit that they're enduring a terrible ordeal.

Davis has been heartened by the reaction of regulars who heard his sermons on the town's economic travails, but he sounds a little surprised by the small number of new faces he's seen on Sundays. He thinks more will come as people really start to suffer. Perhaps, but there are those who think it's pretty horrible in Greenwich already. On a recent Sunday, one Christ Church congregant -- an investment banker who asked not to be identified -- likened the quiet of Greenwich to Hiroshima right after it had been turned into radioactive rubble.

"The people in Hiroshima were so shocked that at first, there wasn't any noise," he says after services. "That's what's happening in Greenwich. Everyone is in a state of total shock right after the bomb."

How dramatic.

Anyone wanna donate some bootstraps to these poor, unfortunate people?

 

[Unite Our Nation]

Apparently you are, by anyone's standards, unsuccessful in your career and financial endeavors.

I'd much rather have my choices than yours.