[Husker8877]

RE: Your post #27:

My, don't we have our perfectly diversified noses in the air, hmmm?

I agree it was primarily their own damn fault that so many lost so much in the Enron scandal. But why must you feel the need to take that opportunity boast? It's bad form.

(By the way, I have no stake in the situation, never having bought in to Enron in the first place. And hey, you have the right to brag all you want about your good fortune, if that's what makes you feel superior, and if that is a need you have...congrats on the schadenfreude buzz it gave you!)

[wideawake]

It's not a matter of being superior. I was not boasting about having a normal reitrement plan anymore than I would boast that I pay my electric bill so my lights don't get turned off.

Diversification isn't some kind of extraordinary achievement: it's extremely simple to do and a basic responsibility.

There is no Schadenfreude here - I'm not happy these people ruined their retirements, but I'm not going to pretend that what they did was wise.

And I did have a personal stake in Enron - I lost a chunk of cash in those shares I wouldn't mind having back.