Subject: Proposed Regulation FD:  File NO S7-31-99

Date:    08/09/2000 8:55 AM
     
     
Dear Commissioners:
     
It is very disturbing to hear that some of you think that Americans that have 
the sense and ambition to earn enough money to invest need to depend on someone 
else to determine how much information they can analyze to make those 
investments.  Any group receiving information in advance of another because of a
law or regulation is a government created monopoly and should be illegal.  There
is no such thing as information overload.  We were smart enough to earn the 
money and we are smart enough to take the time needed to invest it.  We deserve 
the right to have a level playing field and not be forced to invest in high cost
mutual funds instead individual stocks by regulation.
     
Gary Mixon
Manchester, TN