I wouldn’t consider myself to be some kind of big time investor. I have done some bonds over the years. And I have partaken in some capital funds. But here recently I bought my first common stock. I figure that the market is down right now. And the whole idea is to buy low and sell high. So now must be a good time to buy! So I went with a company that is down but I think will come back full force when things get back to normal. I chose Harley Davidson or HOG as they call it on the New York Stock Exchange.

Shortly after I bought this common stock, a proxy arrived in the mail. I opened it, and it was like an election form. I had the opportunity to vote for or against a bunch of people that I had never heard of. Imagine that: stockholders really do have a say in how the company runs. We really are the owners. Of course that means there are a lot of owners. I imaging that they hire some sort of document imaging service to take care of compiling all of these proxies. I guess the bottom line is that I would not have considered myself to be an owner of this company if they would not have sent out these proxies.

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