Dump Your Junk on Wall Street (But Recycle)
I like the idea that’s gaining traction rapidly online and off: to stage a street protest against the proposed $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s junk paper. And some of those behind the planned demonstration are asking participants to bring their own junk — old electronics, stupid consumer products, obsolete household items, bad Christmas gifts — to dump as a visual manifestation of their outrage.
But please, please, please, can we make plans to recycle whatever trash gets piled up near the famed bull sculpture at Broadway and Morris streets at 4 p.m. today? Let’s not make an economic meltdown worse by poisoning our landfills even more.
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So what’s the deal here? If you have sensitive ears or are too young to hear vulgar words, stop reading now. Because an ad hoc movement calling itself BuyMyShitPile.com is behind the protest plans. It’s encouraging angry citizens to add their sh#@ — i.e., “bad assets you’d like the government to take off your hands” — to its online “pile.”
As the Website says, “Bring your 8-track tape collection, high-school yearbook, Grampa’s old recliner, and that snow globe from Great Adventure — not to mention your mortgage statements and student loan invoices — and add ‘em to the pile! And tell Secretary Paulson why you deserve a bailout, too! Bring your most audacious junk, junk that has a story, and make your case. (Ordinary garbage discouraged.)”
Hey, maybe someone can end up profiting from this plan: perhaps an enterprising junkyard operator or e-recycler? If so, we could end the day with at least one happy person on Wall Street.
Please do a follow-up post. I’d be interested to see what happened exactly.