Ok, I won't preface this quote from the Washington Post business section today with any comments and opinions of my own, but could somebody tell me if this is A-typical of our medias intellect. Pollys welcome!

Last paragraph:

"WHATEVER might happen when the clock ticks 12:01 on the 1st of January, I figure even IF the banking system DOES BREAK DOWN, and I don't think it will, I'll get MY money. I'm not going to give in to all this Y2K HYPE and become anybody's prey. And neither should you".

-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 11, 1999

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Washington Post Articlel.

-- Alexi (Alexi@not-in-the-dark.com), July 11, 1999.

The pollys hope y2k will be a 10, so they can sow the world how wrong they are, JUST EXACTLY HOW WRONG THEY ARE!

-- ee (ee@ee.ee), July 11, 1999.

transparent propaganda

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), July 11, 1999.

Well, if by "I'll get my money", she means she plans to go and withdraw all of it in CASH prior to the end of the year, I guess it makes sense. Otherwise, lets just say that it is one of the more "pollyanna" type writings that I have ever seen -- to hypothetically concede that the banking system will break down yet to still believe that you will be able to get money from it. As in, "So what if my house is on fire, I surely will not lose anything."

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), July 11, 1999.

everything they write in the financial section is 90% tripe these days. Same goes for CNBC.

The market is overvalued, but the morons wont admit it, you earn 500% more in bonds than in stock dividends. (that's TODAY RIGHT NOW, not when in all blows off)

Why even listen to these morons for advice, I just read the financial section instead of the funnies.

Let's go bear hunting.... got cash?

-- Bear Hunting (bwahahah@splat.com), July 12, 1999.