>Not necessarily... your 401k is something you choose once, and may check upon from time to time, but even that's a package. So you own several close-to-nothings in a few dozen places, and your authority to make a decision (as an investor) is limited to choosing the package. So saying that Joe Q is somehow sharing responsibility for the mass mess that market has got into is just like accusing the Floridians for the Iraq war.

My state's boy Mitch "Money is free speech" McConnell says unions shouldn't support candidates monetarily because it presumes speaking on behalf of all the Joe Q union members. But then (could you have guessed this) it's fine for corporate mgmt to support candidates with corp monies because if it doesn't represent Joe Q(ubicle), he's free to go find another job. We call it 'demockracy'. Let's all vote now!