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1 posted on 09/08/2013 3:05:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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of course it is a pyramid scheme

the question is whether it is an illegal pyramid scheme


2 posted on 09/08/2013 3:11:39 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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It seems like Herbalife has been at the fringes of legitimacy for what... 30 years?


3 posted on 09/08/2013 3:12:58 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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Yes, it is a pyramid scheme and Villaraigosa is the perfect person, its all he knows - schemes.


4 posted on 09/08/2013 3:18:48 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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I’d be more concerned to know whether its products are safe and reliable.


6 posted on 09/08/2013 3:21:09 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Herbalife has been engaged for the last several months in a public battle with Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager who claims the firm is a pyramid scheme.

If it were a true pyramid scheme, it would have collapsed long ago.

This is nothing more than a hedge fund taking a short position. I hope the hedge fund gets killed.

A pyramid scheme is when new money is used to pay promises on earlier money.

Here the new money goes into tangible products, with commissions up the chain of sales positions.

On-Line Poker is a bigger risk to your wealth. So is the latest tip from Jim Cramer.

It irks that Ackman can get the government involved in his favor.

7 posted on 09/08/2013 3:24:04 PM PDT by cicero2k
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I thought Tony Villar would go back to being a union thug.


9 posted on 09/08/2013 3:36:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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I saw an Herbalife sticker on a man's bumper.

"Lose weight now. Ask me how."

The man had to have weighed at least 300 pounds.

11 posted on 09/08/2013 3:48:25 PM PDT by hummingbird (Don't be afraid of the big words.)
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Apparently the whores never really retire .. they just switch corners and/or neighborhoods.


12 posted on 09/08/2013 4:08:08 PM PDT by tomkat ( support the product, you support the politics .. shop like a warrior)
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Congresswoman Linda Sanchez has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the company is actually operating as a pyramid scheme.

Why not investigate Social Security to see if it is a pyramid scheme?

Of course she won't, she's a MARXIST just like all the rest of them!

15 posted on 09/08/2013 4:15:19 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Retired radio host Bruce Williams asked the simple question of anyone contemplating such a business - “Can you make a buck selling the product?” If you could do so even though the big money is in recruiting and establishing an empire he was fine with it.

Decades ago in high school I sold Fuller Brush products for a time. I recruited several others but never made anything off of them. It was quite decent money when I put in the time and effort.


16 posted on 09/08/2013 4:23:51 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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