[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Look at it this way, I often hear folks complain when the market is doing well...that it is "only" working for a certain class of people (which isn't completely true, but whatever) so if you could educate and get folks to participate who in the past didn't, you could really open up a group of people to a new experience which could motivate them to invest elsewhere.

"IF" , if you could educate people about something as simple and as easy as voting we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now and you think you can educate these people about investing and the market ? Most of the people we're talking about don't trust the goverment or anyone that is connected with it and with Wall Streets history of screwing over Joe Blow you're not going to get the people to trust them.



To Big to Fail........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail
Enron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
Savings and Loan crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
Bernie Madoff .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
Real Estate bubble burst in 2006/08 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...housing_bubble

.................all reasons on why the average Joe Blow is weary of the investment world.