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Another Madoff Investor Commits Suicide
New York, 6:53 AM
Fri Dec 11
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"The American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.
The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the "2008 Financial Report of the United States Government" as released by the U.S. Department of Treasury."
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Really? Sad.
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He had legal recourse as his funds were reinvested with Madoff against his knowledge. Unless he didn't want anyone to know where or how he obtained a cool million-five--on a UN soldier's salary.
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Some of the other Madoff-related death was suspicious as well.
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"The BBC's Web site said Foxton had invested his life savings in two Austrian-based hedge funds..."
Oh, and remember who was runnning the Austrian scams:
[www.thedailybeast.com]
02/14/09
The guy probably worked his whole life then saw everything vanish in a day... and not through any real fault of his own, but because he was duped. That's a tough thing for someone do deal with, especially an older man of his generation, where honor and dignity and so forth likely weigh very heavily. He probably felt like a failure, not just for just losing the cash, but also because he allowed himself to be taken by a huckster.
Legal recourse probably didn't even factor into it for him. He just couldn't handle it. I'm not saying suicide was the right move, but you really have to try to put yourself in his shoes here.
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And legal recourse.. he'd have to get in line with 13,000 others, right? Just musing aloud. (And happy Valentine's, foxy Lookish!)
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He can hire an attorney with...what? And he can recover the shock of losing all his life's savings at 65 and face an impoverished old age when he thought he would be comfortable by just...well, imagine yourself waking up one day with zero money, all of it gone, not even money to buy food, house payment, anything, because you had been swindled..Where would YOU start?
So you don't like to cast aspersions on people who can't defend themselves...but you just forced yourself to do it. How vewwy bwave of little you!
02/15/09
And since you asked where I would start if I lost everything? Over, dumbass. I had two aunts walk out of concentration camps weighing about 85 lbs. each. Nobody could take anything from me to make me kill myself, especially not my money. Guess that is my dead conscience talking, darling.
Back to Jalopnik with you, you're a fucking bore.
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Um no. Your fathers curtains may have his blood on them but that's about it. Suicide is for the feeble, and I would expect a little more gumption from a military officer.
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He can't blame Madoff for his fathers unfortunate death. Money isn't everything and this poor gentleman didn't need to die.
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"Suicide is for the feeble"
Ah the feeble. Yes, we should herd them into camps with the rest of the sub-humans.
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"I have no patience for suicides." What does that even *mean*?????? Do suicides hold you up in line to get into the hockey game or something?
Asswipe.
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He probably had a nice accent and all that (so out of style). He was a fuckwit who invested all his money in greedy schemes. When push came to shove, he decided he was worthless without money.
My family is a veritable suicide mill. Suicide is not feeble, but it is incredibly selfish. I don't include people who are dying of a painful incurable disease as selfish. But the rest? Yes.
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Decisions, including life and death ones, exist in contexts and circumstances.
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