Originally Posted by sperbonzo

if you or I were to use insider knowledge of future laws or regulations to buy a stock, or tell our friends to buy a stock, WE WOULD GO TO PRISON FOR A LONG TIME AND THE GOVERNMENT WOULD SEIZE EVERYTHING WE OWN. When the government officials do it, nothing at all happens to them. Why are they allowed to trade stocks at all, when the government obviously has a HUGE influence over what businesses will succeed or fail? The conflict of interest here is so obvious that it's stunning.


I'm still waiting for a Democrat to tell me how Obama is SO much better than those "evil" republicans....



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