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**Jancoran**

jonolikespie wrote:
Jancoran wrote:
I do this stuff for a living man. You can google it all you want but the fundamental truth of the matter is that the company cannot give what it does not make and no one is going to take a loan out to pay a dividend. BELEIVE THAT. If that ever happened they'd ALL be fired and put in the grey bar hotel. What you're suggesting without really understanding that you are is basically that the company lost money and... took money from its investors to pay its investors; or worse took a loan to do it. BOTH would be false or would be cause for severe sanction. all heads would roll. the only place that money could legally come from is reserves and in a year you lost your owners money, you don't DRAIN his reserves to pay him! Its a ludicrous thing to say.

Well, for one GW HAVE borrowed money to pay dividends before (unless your point was that you are claiming that never happened).
I'm not at all suggesting that GW took money from it's investors, but from their cash on hand.

Are you somehow debating the numbers on GWs own financial reports, or am I missing something here? Your argument still seems to be that GW don't do this because a reasonable company wouldn't, but their reports clearly state they payed out more in dividends than they made in profit.

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