Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
Your speculation is worthless. Even you must see that. If you want things to change, you have to take action yourself. But you refuse.
Consider the old man shaking his fist at those darn kids on his lawn. Anyone impressed by him? No. Anyone handing him $500 million? No. And that’s you.
But I wish you all the best that this life has to offer a person, in any event. Even though that helps not even a small bit.
I don’t think I need to take action myself, Anonymous. I believe that that way lies madness. Considering what is at stake here, if I took this all on my own shoulders and considered where things stand today at the end of 16 years of discussion, I would go insane. No. That ain’t the way.
We live in communities. If the community of people that invests in stocks to provide for their retirements wants to open the internet to honest posting re the last 37 years of peer-reviewed research, that community of people will do that thing. I intend to help. I very much want those efforts to be successful. But this is not a job for me to do alone. This is not all on my shoulders.
It’s a community that enacted the laws against financial fraud. It’s a community that awarded Robert Shiller a Nobel prize for his “revolutionary” (Shiller’s word) research findings of 1981. It’s a community that established posting rules at every site at which I have posted that prohibit the abusive tactics that you Goons have engaged in to silence the thousands who have expressed a desire to participate in honest learning experiences.
The United States is a good community. Our laws are good laws. We will prevail in the end. I have zero doubt.
It would be a terrible mistake for me to think that I should do this on my own or even that I COULD do it on my own. This is community business. My job is to let the community work its will.
I have a part to play and I intend to play my part. I will never say that I believe that John Greaney included a valuation adjustment in the retirement study posted to his web site. I would be letting down the community if I did that. So that will never happen. But it is for the community to decide how to proceed and when to proceed. My job is just to facilitate the process by which the community arrives at its decisions as to how to proceed and when to proceed.
I love my country, right? Is that not the catch phrase that I use all the time? That’s the bottom line here. That’s been the bottom line here going back to the morning of May 13, 2002. I love my country and so I cannot bring myself to violate its laws re so important a matter.
I hope that helps a small bit, dear friend.
My best wishes.
Rob
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