Your comment "really don`t understand why anyone would support/ defend policies and agendas that are geared to work against their best interests" says alot. However, if one`s PRECEIVED "best interest" laid outside the "status quo" and COULD be implimented to their GREATER PERSONAL GAIN, over the lesser "collective good" AND was barely LEGAL and you simply was willing to simply tear financial flesh off the stock market and Gov`t and society like a starved velociraptor (but ONLY for your OWN personal GOOD ) which is "Better"? The PROBLEM is this; as soon as others of this kind see him enjoying a seemingly endless financial bloody flesh feast, then they TOO get an appatite and start in. If ONLY this financial soulless individual could CONVINCE them that as a financial TERROR HIS NEED is SO MUCH GREATER THAN THEIRS and that THEY should act in the "interest of the greater collective good"...especially for HIS "GOOD". Try and with a STRAIGHT face TELL ME (and us) that that`s just NOT exactly all too human nature. "3; eh, I mean 8 for me, 1 for you. 27 for me, 1 for you . 389 for me, none for you..." ARGUE "Wall Strret" ISN`T like that"...In the end it`s EXACTLY what this is ALL about ! I have never willingly invested 1 misereable cent in Wall Street and NEVER WILL; too many WALL STREETERS are either incompetent ("Oh I know it`s YOUR life`s savings, but it`s just my job-OOPS!") OR (barely) legal THIEVES. How many rotten apples does it take to ruin a bushel?