All accounting scandals began well before Sept. 11
Letter to the Editor
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
"After Sept. 11, our civic and political leaders admonished us not to blame all Muslims for the attacks, as only a small minority of Muslims supported them. Yet now, after a handful of corporate accounting scandals, many of these same leaders are trying to make us believe that most of the top executives of America's 17,000 publicly held companies are criminals.
"Pundits and Democrats have roundly criticized President Bush for not being shrill and extreme enough in his denouncements of corporate America. They would rather push the crisis button.
"Indeed, the Democratic leadership, whose sole goal as of late seems to be finding bizarre ways to attack Bush and Republicans, tell us that not only do we have a "crisis" in corporate America, but that it is Bush's fault, that when former CEO Bush and his corporate friends came to Washington barely a year and a half ago, it sent a message of permissiveness to business leaders.
"But most of the corporate accounting scandals appear to have had their genesis prior to November 2000, when these same Democrats were counseling the American people that the president's lying under oath was no big deal."[Emphasis mine...jj]
Brandon Crocker
San Diego |
