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Re: n4807g post# 34467

Monday, 02/27/2006 11:25:51 AM

Monday, February 27, 2006 11:25:51 AM

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... the top 1 percent of Americans owned 47.7 percent of all stock, while the bottom 80 percent owned 4.1 percent.

Between 1989 and 1998, nearly 35 percent of all stock market gains went to the top 1 percent of shareholders.

Again...it's ironic that the argument against allowing people to keep a portion of their Social Security tax for personal investment, is the notion that they'll lose it in the stock market. Well by not allowing them that opportunity we relegate them to certain poverty.

what opportunity? to get taken by the big boys in the market?


Sara

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