> Pretty much everyone I work with lost half their savings in 2008....half
> their college funds, etc. And of course, due to fraud, a lot of pension
> funds went under too.
>
Contrast this with Argentina´s widely criticized move a couple years ago to get rid of its private pensions system tied to the stock markets casino, nationalizing it.
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