To: limtex who wrote (37623 ) 3/5/2002 5:13:01 PM From: the_wheel Respond to of 99280 I like your attitude. As long as no one ever sells, I don't see how stocks could ever go down. Now before anyone asks me where would the stock come from that you buy, just think for yourself, the company could issue it as NEW stock, that way everyone could have brand new shiny certificates. Then you could just keep them and hand them down to your grandchildren, then the money you worked hard for (that the company paid you) you could give back to the company that sold you the stock. I think that is only fair and even steven. Then the company could just charge each new stock customer a dollar more than the last one so each trade would be +1. Then before long everyone would be holding all their stock for a profit. Then everyone would be so filthy rich that we could just maybe take some of our certificates and give them to the poor peoples in other countries and then everyone would be happy an filthy rich. Good idea, huh? P.S. Think about this scenario real hard. It would not be very long at all before all the stocks you now own that are not worth jack would be sky freaking high. Wouldn't that be great? Plus, there wouldn't be any of those mean old (I do mean old most of them are over thirty) nasty unamerican short sellers (I am trying my best to be kind here). They would not be allowed to sell either, and they would also be so rich you could not imagine. If you would like to get an idea, yesterday I figured how much it could really be under my scenario, I took an excel spreadsheet and put a 8% for QCOM and a 19% for JNPR daily increase (like they did yesterday) in there and extrapolated (that means looking forward) it into (you guessed it) the future. If you would take the time to do this and check out how much they would be worth if you bought just one share (I know you have got a lot more, I am just talking about the poor peoples that can only afford like one share $12 jnpr plus 8 bucks a trade) if you would just take that one share and see how much you could be worth by June you would maybe go along with my idea. Now I know these nasty shorts are going to jump all over me for such ideas, but maybe if they tried this exercise and checked out how much they would be worth by Christmas and New Years and then March next year...well maybe they would change their mind too and click it in there, I am talking about the buy button, the one that promises untold future riches. All we have to do is disable the other mean nasty old button. I am sure with the modern tech that we could eliminate the selling for a while to see how it goes. I think I read somewhere that Japan may disallow selling. Also, the Argentines don't allow no money to come out of the bank only to go in that keeps the money safe from people like Softie who would take the money from the banks. Now the money is safe in the bank. Why not change the rules so it is safe in the stocks? I am going to start a petition and I hope you will join me. After all, American means rich right?