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To: Rarebird who wrote (417869)	9/22/2011 2:09:45 PM
From: oldirtybastard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

You need to define "productive" For at least half the population the most productive thing they could do would be to die. The people trading and managing money aren't among these. As an alternative they could sit home an suck the taxpayer teat, go on to have a bunch of kids who will never read above the 4th grade level in their life, or go to work at GM and suck the taxpayer teat, or got to work at B of A and suck the taxpayer teat, or work for local or federal government and suck it that way with pension on top. They could also smoke and eat to obesity to suck the teat some more later in life as their body crumbles on your dime, not mutually exclusive from the first option. I think trading or managing money is the better use of their time.