Government and Get Rich Quick Programs

Exactly...I hate seeing people getting taken advantage of..some are becoming desperate and fall prey to these scams, thereby making things worse on themselves, and those running those scams, they don't care...and they get away with it because they are actually offering SOMETHING for the money, with instructions...but it's still a scam. And they use people, who are supposed to be ACTUAL benefactors of the program. Thank you very much!

"The government can always print more money to get out of an economic crisis." Ah, picjim, if only it were that easy, but it doesn't really work that way.

I do not understand why a lot of people would not listen to their parents but still listen to the government, they themselves are in trouble, can you believe United States is 14 Trillion dollars in debt? And still people are still taking financial advice from them, you have to be kidding.

I do understand, very clearly. I was merely trying to make light of a serious situation that takes advantage of people, only to get people thinking more about spending their money on something that, really, that's all that's going to happen...they lose money, not make wealth. But these scams are every where and people do fall prey. I know someone who spends more then he should on scams, and it not only hurts him, but his family...but he won't stop. That's what got me thinking about it, and how others might be affected. And it's a very serious problem! Thank you for your response!! It's meaningful and direct.

That is an issue, many of us are getting lazy or love to gamble. Most of the time we have a system within ourselves that would trigger some warning signals to our brains, but we allow the salesman and do not do our due diligence to check the product out. Then again if Lehman Brothers can fail, then it is not easy to tell a good deal from scam.

Hi iwrite... I look at it this way...if it were really that easy to get rich that quickly...like a bad rumor, the success would spread like wild-fire and we would have a nation of wealthy people. Now there's a thought....what if everyone was rich...everyone with at least a healthy 7-digit bank account...would everyone still be considered rich? Or would it be considered just a higher standard of living?

Exactly...kinda like what the government does to us already. There are people who take advantage of others...and it's hard to stop them. I don't believe there are any get rich short-cuts, other than the lottery, but that's based on chance...and those chances aren't very good. So you're right...it's just work and investing. If it were that easy, everyone would be rich, don't you think?