I had CNN on while at work, muted of course, during the whole madoff thingy, one of the quotes written out on the lower part of the TV was
"I lost my life savings, the government has let me down"
I'm sorry, what?
Since when was the government in charge of my savings? Does someone really want that? It just bothers me like no other that people really want the government to have that kind of power. I want have the option of pissing away all of my savings on a single horse race if I want to, or give all my savings to some random guy to invest it or takes it and pulls a madoff, that's MY money. I guess that person wanted a government worker to step in and look over their investments for them.
One day we will be just like the Humans in Wall-e.....
What really scares me is when I saw that, I told some customers, look at that, who in their right mind would blame the government for their bad choices. The customers looked at me like are you serious?
Sigh.....
"I lost my life savings, the government has let me down"
I'm sorry, what?
Since when was the government in charge of my savings? Does someone really want that? It just bothers me like no other that people really want the government to have that kind of power. I want have the option of pissing away all of my savings on a single horse race if I want to, or give all my savings to some random guy to invest it or takes it and pulls a madoff, that's MY money. I guess that person wanted a government worker to step in and look over their investments for them.
One day we will be just like the Humans in Wall-e.....
What really scares me is when I saw that, I told some customers, look at that, who in their right mind would blame the government for their bad choices. The customers looked at me like are you serious?
Sigh.....