“How Is It That There Are Site Administrators Who Agreed to Ban Me Because I Pointed Out an Error in a Study That People Were Using to Plan Their Retirements? That’s an Issue of Huge Public Policy Significance.”

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

You could have continued to make all the nonsensical posts you wanted to make about Greaney AND still work a job to support the family and you know that.  Do you think everyone posting on the boards has to choose between posting on boards and working?  How stupid do you think we are?

On most questions that come up on a discussion board, you don’t have to write a book to explain to people what is going on. This issue is different. Leave the Goon stuff aside for a minute. You Goons don’t have the power to ban anyone. You can demand it. But you don’t have access to the button that makes someone go away. How is it that there are site administrators who agreed to ban me because I pointed out an error in a study that people were using to plan their retirements?

That’s an issue of huge public policy significance, Anonymous. As a nation of people, we have to have some means of getting the word out about what the last 42 years of peer-reviewed research teaches us all about how stock investing works out to millions of people. That’s the job. That’s absolutely imperative. We should all be united on that one. If we were all thinking clearly, there would not be one person who did not see why that is so important.

I would peefer not to be writing the book. I would prefer that there had never been a single abusive post. I was still a Buy-and-Holder on the morning of May 13, 2002. I would prefer to still be a Buy-and-Holder. That’s not the way it played out. My job is to play the cards that are dealt to me. I don’t control what cards are dealt. Perhaps you’ve noticed.

Rob