呵呵呵﹗大就是好﹖大國大祖國﹐如七﹑九歲稚兒高歌﹐呢喃頌迎『崛起的祖國』﹐讓人大耍雙節棍﹐舉世無人敵﹐美啊好個夢。

唉唉唉﹗咱沒做夢﹖當今此時刻﹐我今擁今日全世界最大最強美利堅金元﹐好像明日又要享有和平爬起的大國﹔伊娘列﹗何人有我幸﹖

只是﹐政府為人民服務﹐還是人民為國服務﹖理論歸理論﹐有時侯﹐人生是『不如意事﹐十之八九』﹐平常日子還是要過。碰上既存既定制度﹐誰管民主或集權﹐呼天叫地無人應﹐只能說倒霉《度丟啊》（請台語發音）﹐好好体驗何謂『有國才有家﹐還是有家才有國』﹐是雞為蛋而活﹖還是蛋為雞而存﹖

伊娘列﹗千古哲人﹐無人能就此題﹐掘真理﹐有正解﹔咱也只知以卵擊石﹐結果會如何﹐至於國大政府大﹐會否讓個人小民幸福﹖這是人生自解題喔。

問問十九世紀大英國人及小瑞士人﹐何謂大國小國去吧﹗

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Enclosed here is my article emtitled "Why We Need 1031 Exchange Scams to Devastate Investors?" for your reference.  It is an immediate response to an article "1031 Exchange Scams Can Devastate Investors" written by the famous columist Ilyce:

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Do you know who's holding your funds?

By Ilyce Glink, Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

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I always find that Ilyce's articles very helpful and educational.  This one is very interesting.

Here is my response: 

Do you know who's holding your funds?  

Very good question? Do I have to know that? Why I have to know that?

I have studied 1031 exchange program for many years. I have a basic question: why we have to have a third party called "qualified intermediary" to take advantage of the program?

First, our lawmakers have their reasons or concerns: to invite a third "person" in order to be able to "verify" the process is real "exchange", or to create a job.

Next, if our lawmakers' main purpose is to make sure it is a true "exchange," they really don't want our citizen have the opportunity to "touch" or "mingle" the fund. Under our laws, using a 3rd party working as a middle tool or vehicle is a must for us to be qualified an exchange. But, not only in theory also in reality, is it the only way to prevent any abuse as our Congress has in mind? Nobody needs a cool mind to say, "No way, Jose!"

Let's go down to the basic bottom, there are so many ways to prevent us from using the fund out of an exchange. Can we be allowed to hold the check without cashing it out, i.e., we have absolutely no way to mingle the fund with other money of ours. There is no way for us to touch it, except holding a piece of check that has no value in itself, i.e., a useless junk paper.  Can we be allowed to open a trust account with a bank under our names and its sole purpose is simply holding the fund for exchange?  The legitimate and correct answer is, "No, No, No."  But why not?   In short, our lawmakers want to make things easy for them or IRS for their convenience. they care less for creating a more "complicated" system at the expense of taxpayer.

Just as Mr. Nathanson said, ""The IRS is unforgiving on this issue because they say you have the right to choose any 1031 exchange company you want. If you choose a company that turns out to be a bunch of crooks, the IRS says it's your problem. You still owe the taxes."

Certainly it sounds like we have the right to choose an exchange company.  I'd rather to say we have the "obligation" or "duty" to give out our "trust" to a person or company per your laws or game rule. 

Remember, everybody knows that a 3rd person shall have no business in our transaction and to cut out a middleman is a saving for a business unless it is necessary.  However, If we want to take the advantage of a valid exchange, we have to follow the legal requirements set by our lawmakers.   Clearly we have no choice but to invite a third party involved into our 1031 exchange to increase the cost of business. 

Everybody can easily answer my question: who is the best and safest person to trust?  That's YOU who is 100 percent liable and responsible for yourself.  How come our lawmakers don't allow us to do exactly that? Why they created a monster system to ask us placed our trust and funds to others' hands for possibly being cut corner, confused, cheated, scammed? After first adding risks to us, then blame us again for the risks, mistake, omission or negligence; and shamelessly have us suffered as victims twice, if anything goes sour?  Why don't they be kind to "rescue" us as they have tried to rescue those Wall Street big cats or subprime loan victims? 

Is it fair for an individual to face these exchange scams created by a legally organized mess (note: I have no intention to mean that of "organized crime" or to say it is the unavoidable built-in result of 1031 exchange program); or to beheld liable for the ir-responsibility of others?

Probably we have to overhaul the basic underlying philosophy of many modern set-ups.  So many things have complicated our lifestyle and we call or label them as "the beauty of variance or choice."  We even further say that we need more "regulations" to enjoy a more "well-managed" society. 

How frustrated we are in this modern rat race of America, even we just want a simple life?