Well Ron, I'm having a hard time figuring out your problem then. 2B is the only guy I know of who regularly says there is no such thing as a good annuity.
In the poll I ran the last time someone complained that e-r.org was full of annuity haters, the very vast majority said they owned one or would consider owning one if the numbers were good.
You're not pointing out the threads in which you felt you were unjustly persecuted for expressing your opinions about the investment, and I dont think I've ever seen anyone be attacked unreasonably about it.
As Rewahoo pointed out, some annuity sales people have gotten the bums rush, not because of the product they were trying to sell but because they were usually annoying jerks. Some folks with funny math and contraptions not made out of whole cloth have also been poked in the eye when they continued down the path of bullshittedness.
What harms a community more than anything are people who have a hair across their backside about something and make generalized comments about being picked on, persecuted, or that a fair discussion on a topic cant take place because the community wont allow it or that there is some collective will against the topic.
So I think the short answer is 'put up or shut up'?
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