It's just a win win.

So if you get a financial windfall (inheritance, killer investment, win the lottery, etc.) you can always pay off debt or dump into an investment, but you can't make up contributions to your tax advantaged accounts that you didn't make in previous years.

No winning in a rental situation.

Can't win them all!

With a good lawyer, you have at least a 60% chance of winning.

Keep doing things right and you will win in the long run (even if you lose a client to an "empty promise" and he has to come back to you).

IMO, it's the failure to educate the public, showing winning projects and how the properties are kept.

I could say lots of nasty things for you to do but when it comes down to it, the scum will win and you will loose.

Here is a link to the NY Times ~ March 6 1933:http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/gold_hoarders_nytimes_1933.jpgThe headline states: "Roosevelt Orders 4 Day Bank Holiday, Puts Embargo on Gold, Calls Congress"Coincidentally (or perhaps not), on the same day the front page also has this: "Hitler Bloc Wins a Reich Majority; Rules in Prussia"The difference, however, between today and the US back then is that they were on the gold standard.

That's like trying to win the lottery.