First off there is no more Main Street.
Main Street went shopping at the mall and was never heard from again.
Then the Mall went shopping at Ebay & Amazon.Com, and the Mall disappeared too, and when the Mall's mortgage was foreclosed, they put an orange ribbon just like they do at crime scenes around the whole darn place, let the weeds grow over, and called it a day. The taxpayers paid the mortgage.
Wall Street OTOH.
Wall Street has these little bloodlettings every once in a while: Black Monday, Black Friday, and the Savings & Loan scandal that the Bushes were involved in. Puce Thursday, too. We payed for that one too.
But mighty Wall Street will continue to rumble forward. That has been assured on this happy day.
Unlike Main Street. Unlike even the once mighty Mall. Wall Street will get rid of it's non-performing brokers,
cast off it's many excess secretaries (especially now that you can't tickle or slap or pinch them anymore when they try to slip un-noticed by your grey carpet cubicle--how fun is that ? ) , consolidate, and sell itself to China. We know that Wall Street will now survive because they have finally created an EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX for that most needed of Modern American Commodities (ABC) : wooden arrow shafts.
The one thing that we know for sure, is that no matter what else happens, Wall Street and that other great American institution that has given us so many great American things (like the Iraq War, and Fisa, and The Blackberry, and well... so very much more) The United States Senate will continue, through thick and thin, rain and shine, in sleet and in hail. Rather like the USPS, but not all socialistic or Commie-like at all.
All hail to the power and endurance of, well, unbridled power.
And eternally self perpetuating Endurance.
And wooden arrow shafts, now freed from the burden of both excess and excise taxation, will continue to be available to all Americans at never before heard of discounts from Amazon.Com