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To: TigerLikesRooster
If people were rational, there would have been no financial bubbles to begin with, and no hefty paycheck for financial whizes in Wall St..

Not true.

In our current system, if you make a bad decision and you're the only one, you're out of luck. But if you follow the herd doing something stupid, you're rewarded by having your losses covered.

Allowing private profits but covering losses with public funds is fascist econonomic policy (using fascist in its real meaning, not just as an insult). Gee, what do we see going on in this country? My money being confiscated and given to "bail out" private losses.

So it becomes rational to take foolish risks, as long as there are enough others doing so. The incentives are set up to reward those who act irresponsibly...so with the system set up that way, it is rational to act irresponsbily, because the responsible will be forced to pay for problems, and you only stand to gain!

4 posted on 07/20/2008 9:30:12 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

Like the old saying, if you’re going to owe money then owe enough that non-payment becomes the bank’s problem, not yours !


9 posted on 07/20/2008 10:17:50 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Gondring
My money being confiscated and given to "bail out" private losses.

Exactly what money of yours has been given to cover exactly which losses? Please be as specific as you can. Thanks.

13 posted on 07/21/2008 9:29:05 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Half the time it could seem funny, the other half's just too sad.)
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