hq, welcome aboard. The following statements are not a reflection on you, I'm sure you are a nice guy
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Kiyosaki is SATAN! He is what is most evil in the financial world! He sells books with tantalizing statements about high yeild "tax certificates" and real estate gains that aren't taxed etc., but offers no specifics. This is so you will blow 5 grand on a seminar, where his minions will bust out flashy presentations, thumping music, shark suits and hand free microphones left over from the Tony Robbins seminar and tell you all about - nothing!
Yet people keep going to these seminars, spewing gobledygook to their friends like, "He changed the way you think about money!" "He teaches you to have the mind set of a winner!" "Savers are losers!" "Get to the 4th square!"
If there were tax certificates that yeilded 15%, why would anyone invest in the stock market? If it's too good to be true, it is.
There is web sites out there detailing how he is a fraud, he doesn't own a bunch of real estate, his personal wealth only came after he started doing his own seminars, how he started as a flunky/lacky for another seminar pusher, his "rich dad" is completely fictional, I could go on, but you get the picture.
He has done an excellent job worming his way into the mainstream media, getting on as a contributer to yahoo finance etc. That's what really gets me riled up. Now he has the endorsement of the mainstream financial community (which isn't that clean to begin with, but still) so now he'll suck in even more victims. Scumbag...