You're nuts. All I did was answer your question. I don't know a lot of people who did well in the stock market and those who did were highly educated professionals. I know lots of people who made money in real estate, and these include uneducated immigrants with nothing more than a Grade Three education. Draw your own conclusions, sirs.
<<So again, all the left has then is to demonize the stock market, distort Bush's actual plans for trying to save SS, and misrepresent the idea of leaving $$ in the market for an extended period of time, equivalent to what SS mandates, using the occasional stock market drops as some smoking gun of how terrible an idea it is for following up on some form of SS reform that includes the stock market. >>
I didn't do any of that. You're really crazy. It's actually quite amazing how you can take a simple and rather bare-bones answer to a simple question, read whatever you want into it and then when you finish re-crafting it, denounce it as a Commie plot against Bush.
Anyway, I stand by my answer. It's the plain truth. It's what I know from MY life (and maybe someone else knows the exact opposite from his or her own life, and if so, I'd like to hear) and I drew some conclusions from it, mainly that most ordinary folks are not wise investors in the market. Sorry 'bout that, but don't shoot the messenger.