Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: Edward F Bathen
Affiliation: personal investment

May 4, 2009

PLEASE...IMMEDIATLY ACT TO STOP the bear raids/short sellers on companies to drive their value down by funds and investor groups for gain and the destruction of said companies targeted.

They are and have killed the investments that an entire generation has worked like dogs to attain/maintain.

They have taken away or delayed retirement for countless thousands of hard working Americans.

The economic turmoil has to stop and this is one way to start the ball rolling in the right direction.

Q. Just who was the brain trust that allowed this method of destruction to thrive at the cost of "we the people".

Ed Bathen
Small investor that lost 40% of my retirement