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you and I and everyone are stuck to some extent.
it may take a decade or even a decade and a half, but you are better off leaving the money there for the market to work its way back. you've already lost a bunch, don't we all wish we could read the future, and it you want, pull some fraction out to soothe your mind. But keep a good portion in the market and let it come back. I worry more about the retirees and old people who do not have time to wait for the market to come back.
also, what worked for me, rethink where your money goes from now, do something else with the new money. This way, you can rationalize that though you may be losing now in THIS segment, maybe your judicious or safe investing elsewhere will help balance out your WHOLE portfolio
frankly, I cannot blame you for feeling stupid and betrayed. The system IS designed to squeeze the hard earned dollars out of our pockets and INTO the pockets of the TRillionaires. The reprieve we get, is that if we are lucky and play the lotto right, we get to keep our hard earned money and maybe earn a bit more.
you see where I am going with this... after the housing market comes back in a decade or so, I PERSONALLY am selling and not investing or borrowing a GODDAMN dime from any fiscal entity for the remainder of my life. we are on this planet too short a time to hand over our hard earned dough so we might earn a pittance more while risking losing a whole hell of most of what we have in our lives. I will bury it, I will stick it in the mattress, but FUCK EVERYONE, I lost not only all my hard work from the past decade but ALSO, to top it off, owe my family $100k of THEIR money.
So, I ask (to all) why the fuck are these banking criminals, Bush and Cabal, and all the lobbyists STILL NOT IN FUCKING PRISON!!!
Do we REALLY have ZERO power and control over our fates????
IS THIS WHAT THE MEANING OF FREEDOM IS?!??!!?