Question

Why is it that as a private individual if I risk money in the stock market for retirement and the market takes a turn for the worse, I am out the money and no help is available but the Government risks money in the stock market for retirement and the market takes a turn for the worse, I, as a taxpayer, have to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/09/30/build/state/75-teacher-retirement.inc">bail the system out</a>?<br />n<br />n<b>The question you're not supposed to ask is the important one. Mason Cooley</b>