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	<title>Comments on: Dodd Bill Attacks Angel Investing?</title>
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		<title>By: Robber Baron</title>
		<link>http://timothyblee.com/2010/04/15/dodd-bill-attacks-angel-investing/comment-page-1/#comment-12492</link>
		<dc:creator>Robber Baron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Senate Troll

YOU NAILED IT!

Without Angel Investors, this country would not be one of the leading innovators in the Tech industry today.  Its not wealth or status or, really even ideas that give us that position.....ITS FREEDOM!  SOmething these ASSHOLES are wrestling away from the American people bit by bit, each and every day.  FREEDOM to allow Angel Investors to take a chance on a new idea and help it to come to fruition, FREEDOM to benefit from the rewards, not only the monetary rewards, but the innovation itself that CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!   Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, to name a few!  NONE of these would have come about if this bill goes into LAW!
This is absolute TYRANNICAL BULLSHIT!!!</description>
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<p>YOU NAILED IT!</p>
<p>Without Angel Investors, this country would not be one of the leading innovators in the Tech industry today.  Its not wealth or status or, really even ideas that give us that position&#8230;..ITS FREEDOM!  SOmething these ASSHOLES are wrestling away from the American people bit by bit, each and every day.  FREEDOM to allow Angel Investors to take a chance on a new idea and help it to come to fruition, FREEDOM to benefit from the rewards, not only the monetary rewards, but the innovation itself that CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!   Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, to name a few!  NONE of these would have come about if this bill goes into LAW!<br />
This is absolute TYRANNICAL BULLSHIT!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Contemplationist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Contemplationist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Senate Troll

Absolutely what I feel as well. I&#039;m afraid this kind of bullshit might pass. Are there no angel investor lobbies to help remove this crock of shit from the bill? It may be screwy in a million other ways, but if it doesn&#039;t harm startups, at least we&#039;ll have that</description>
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<p>Absolutely what I feel as well. I&#8217;m afraid this kind of bullshit might pass. Are there no angel investor lobbies to help remove this crock of shit from the bill? It may be screwy in a million other ways, but if it doesn&#8217;t harm startups, at least we&#8217;ll have that</p>
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		<title>By: Senate Troll</title>
		<link>http://timothyblee.com/2010/04/15/dodd-bill-attacks-angel-investing/comment-page-1/#comment-12431</link>
		<dc:creator>Senate Troll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m waiting for someone to sue the SEC about Reg D as it stands, much less if it becomes more discriminatory.

Why should any class of investors be able to invest in a company just because of that investor&#039;s net worth or annual income. Are they supposed to be fucking smarter because they have a trust from the grandparents or some fucking thing?

This is complete bullshit and unconstitutional. Where does the SEC get this bullshit power in the first place. Why should smart investors who have less than a million dollars in annual income or less than 2.5 million or some other fucking arbitrary number not get to invest in startups, while rich people can? I’ll tell you why.  Because the fucking lawyers in the Senate are a bunch of fucking sycophants to the rich people club.  The US Senate is the modern monarchy of America.  They fill their pockets by pandering to the rich.

This whole idea that the SEC or these regulations protect unsophisticated investors is the biggest crock of stinking bullshit on the face of the earth. What.  We don’t have access to information?  Anyone with a fucking computer and a free Google spreadsheet has more than enough tools to decide whether to invest in a startup.  

Fuck DODD. Fuck the SEC. All they are doing is protecting the already wealthy, not helping the average investor.  When are Americans going to wake the fuck up and tell their bullshit, monarchist government to fuck off. Fuck off and leave us alone. We don&#039;t need your fucking 1940&#039;s laws to protect us from fraudulent securities brokers. We can do just fine without the help of our fucking US government, you fucking arrogant assholes. Stick with delivering the mail, checking luggage at the airport, and writing check to welfare recipients, you fucking incompetent government hacks. 

Stay the fuck away from me and out of my life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m waiting for someone to sue the SEC about Reg D as it stands, much less if it becomes more discriminatory.</p>
<p>Why should any class of investors be able to invest in a company just because of that investor&#8217;s net worth or annual income. Are they supposed to be fucking smarter because they have a trust from the grandparents or some fucking thing?</p>
<p>This is complete bullshit and unconstitutional. Where does the SEC get this bullshit power in the first place. Why should smart investors who have less than a million dollars in annual income or less than 2.5 million or some other fucking arbitrary number not get to invest in startups, while rich people can? I’ll tell you why.  Because the fucking lawyers in the Senate are a bunch of fucking sycophants to the rich people club.  The US Senate is the modern monarchy of America.  They fill their pockets by pandering to the rich.</p>
<p>This whole idea that the SEC or these regulations protect unsophisticated investors is the biggest crock of stinking bullshit on the face of the earth. What.  We don’t have access to information?  Anyone with a fucking computer and a free Google spreadsheet has more than enough tools to decide whether to invest in a startup.  </p>
<p>Fuck DODD. Fuck the SEC. All they are doing is protecting the already wealthy, not helping the average investor.  When are Americans going to wake the fuck up and tell their bullshit, monarchist government to fuck off. Fuck off and leave us alone. We don&#8217;t need your fucking 1940&#8242;s laws to protect us from fraudulent securities brokers. We can do just fine without the help of our fucking US government, you fucking arrogant assholes. Stick with delivering the mail, checking luggage at the airport, and writing check to welfare recipients, you fucking incompetent government hacks. </p>
<p>Stay the fuck away from me and out of my life.</p>
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		<title>By: Contemplationist</title>
		<link>http://timothyblee.com/2010/04/15/dodd-bill-attacks-angel-investing/comment-page-1/#comment-12414</link>
		<dc:creator>Contemplationist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately, unless some heavy lobbying and/or pressure is applied, this seems set to become law. WE MUST DO SOMETHING</description>
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		<title>By: Brian Moore</title>
		<link>http://timothyblee.com/2010/04/15/dodd-bill-attacks-angel-investing/comment-page-1/#comment-12408</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is there a general perception that angel investors are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous startups that I wasn&#039;t aware of?  Because that definitely seems like a really bad idea.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a general perception that angel investors are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous startups that I wasn&#8217;t aware of?  Because that definitely seems like a really bad idea.</p>
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