America's Peasants Must Get In Line Behind Wall Street For H1N1 Vaccine.

Are you looking to get the swine flu vaccine? Do you work for this company? Then fuck off.

This story has been making the rounds on television news and the blogs. It tells you a whole lot about how this country is run:

While thousands of at-risk Americans wait, some big Wall Street banks have already secured the hard-to-find H1N1 vaccine for their employees.

Building on a story that BusinessWeek broke, NBC reports that employees at the New York Stock Exchange, bankers at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and employees at the Federal Reserve have all received swine flu vaccine doses to administer to their employees.

In particular, NBC reports that Goldman Sachs has received 200 doses of the vaccine -- the same amount as Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Wall Street banks, like many other companies, put in requests for the vaccine but seem to have had something of a leg up on securing doses.

It’s a good thing I’m not looking to get the swine flu vaccine, because the last time I checked, I don’t work for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup. It’s nice to know that these and other Wall Street firms are given priority over hospitals and doctors’ offices that have yet to receive doses. After all, their employees have to be healthy and on top of their game if they’re going to continuing robbing this country blind.

(Read more at the Huffington Post.)

- Max