kolosos35

No Happy Endings in the Credit Crisis

Yesssssssss! I'm in.....


On Sep 20 11:02 AM carey_jim wrote:

> Congress and the President and his cabinet should be allowed to go
> public and each official should have a stock that is traded on the
> New York Stock Exchange in his or her name.
>
> Our elected officials would then be allowed to openly make a profit
> from their political actions and the values of their stocks would
> reflect how they are doing.
>
> A stock would be issued for each official and the stock would be
> traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
>
> On November 4, whichever government official's stock had the highest
> value would become president, the next highest valued stock representative
> would become vice-president and so on down to local dog catcher.
>
>
> Don't laugh. The idea has merit. (I don't believe we would be allowed
> to short these stocks, however. That would smack of communism.)