“I Live in a Nation of People. Many of Those People Have Helped Me Live a Better Life. Doctors. Scientists. Teachers. Policemen. On and On and On and On. I Would Not Be Able to Sleep at Night If I Sold Those People Out.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

Do you regret it enough to say that you made the wrong decision?

No.

I live in a nation of people. Many of those people have helped me live a better life. Doctors. Scientists. Teachers. Policemen. On and on and on and on. I would not be able to sleep at night if I sold those people out. I sincerely believe that the Greaney retirement study lacks an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins.

I am 100 percent certain that my ex would feel the same way about it if she had studied these matters as closely as I have and knew what I know. She knows that there is some funny business going on. But she does not know the full extent of it. It is hard for anyone who has not devoted themselves full time to these matters to appreciate the realities. I know that I did not appreciate them on the morning of May 13, 2002. It’s a hard-to-believe story. But a very, very. very important one. For me to stop talking about it would make it worse. We need more people talking about this story, not fewer.

Rob