Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: joseph p smith

May 4, 2009

The market was made to invest in companies and for the companies to have money to invest in their business.
I have been in the market since I was 18. I am now 79.
Doing away with the Uptick as far as I'm concerned, is unAmerican.
Let's build up America, not tear the nation down with greed. When a company's having trouble, it doesn't need a Hedge Fund to drive the stock down and bankrup the company.

Joe Smith