No, I said they learned how to GET AWAY with it from Clinton. Anytime we stand up and applaud crimes, the potential criminals start to think. The people who supported Clinton through his "persecution" ARE 100% responsible for the ethics problems of today. What's worse, the attention is being given only to private sector ethics problems (a real problem, for sure, as Bush will address in his Fourth of July speech), and still ignoring the exponentially greater crimes in the public sector. The crimes that are coming to light in business are being perpetrated by the usual small percentage of unworthy executives, and similar types will always be around to do some damage. Not so with the public sector, where crime is a way of life, generally accepted, and blessed by our elected officials.
One benefit of the coming (and much-needed) reform of corporate disclosure and governance is that it will lead to a long-overdue exposure of the common, daily obscenities taking place in government today. When you stop seeing government crime being described as "controversial" and start seeing it described as "outrageous", you can be assured that the other much-needed reform is in progress... |
