Is this a Free Country or What !

According to the wikipedia encyclopedia, online chain letters to make money came into existence in 1988 and are classed as scams.

They become scams because people do not follow them through, it could be a perfect money maker if every one followed the rules and forwarded the $1 and sent out to the required number of people, because although it is a type of pyramid scheme it is one where, if people did receive the money promised they would continue to rejoin at intervals and so keep the scheme going.

This type of letter began long before 1988. In 1960 a friend of mine received one of these letters, I also received one but I did not follow it through where as she did.
It asked for the sum of 2/6p which is now an average of 25p.but the promise was not to receive money but a full dinner service if you followed up by sending out a further 25 letters to friends and family etc.

Six months went by and she had given up on it when one day a box was delivered by post, it was the promised dinner service and a really nice one, I was quite sorry that I had missed out on the chance.

It just goes to show that they can work if people really do follow them through.
 I t is no wonder that the ones that were sweeping the country in the last two or three years failed and people lost a lot of money, it stands to reason that people would be wary of risking the large amount of money that changed hands, or they did not have that sort of money to hand out and it was bound to come to a sticky end sooner rather than later but people knew it was risky so why cry when it goes haywire.

But risking $1 is a different matter , thousands or millions of us risk more than that on the lottery every single week with millions to one chance of winning.
Isn't the lottery a similar type of thing ? except of course it is backed by the government.

What if one week you won the lottery and the millions you expected turned out to be just a few hundred because suddenly people decided it was a scam and didn't bother to have a go that week you would be rather upset and call it a big scam yourself.

We once lived in a country which we believed was a free country and we prided ourselves on that fact, but slowly but surely all our rights are disappearing and we can not choose for ourselves what we want to do.

Laws are being brought out banning this and that or being made illegal. Are we the people not capable of running our own lives any more?
It seems not because we are slowly but surely allowing any rights we had to be taken away.
We can not choose for ourselves any more, is that what we want?
If we want to take the risk of possibly making money or losing it in what they call scams or hypes why shouldn't we be allowed to make our own minds up.

I haven't seen them banning racing yet, horse and dog and other forms where you can lose your shirt, or even the casinos or bingo halls, WHY! because the government makes money out of them in taxes.

If they made money out of what they call the ponzi schemes there would be no hue and cry or any thoughts of making it illegal.

I was a member of 12 dailypro and like thousands of people I lost money, but I chose to take the risk and join, knowing it was a risk, but that risk was working until certain people decided to put an end to it and it wasn't the person that was running it.
What are stocks and shares aren't they risky ! And doesn't the government wheel and deal every day and feather their own nests in the process.

How do the banks invest their money don't they risk other peoples money, and insurance companies take your money then wheel and deal with it, yes they promise you big things but if they fail and lose the money in a crash who is at a loss ! us of course, but we are allowed to risk our money with them its all legal.

Am I wrong in my thinking, What do you think.?


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posted by Sylva @ 2:12 AM