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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (20847)	1/10/2002 8:55:15 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

Yep. The principle is simple: secrecy breeds incompetence, and criminality. True in government as well as commerce. True since The Founding in 1776. Public business must be public, or hanky-panky is inevitable. Private citizens have rights to keep their affairs private, but anything else, such as when gov't and big biz keep powers to themselves that are denied to citizens, is down the road to fascism. What gov't and big biz deny is that they work for us, not vice-versa. It's pretty tempting to help yourself to a few hundred million when you've got your hands on the levers of power, and figure the evidence will be shredded, or put under an official Secrets Act if it hits the fan. Imagine Ken Lay's thoughts as he hosts dinners and hands millions to Bush & Co, with a sprinkling of Democrats thrown in for good measure: "Man, I've got it covered!". He well knows we've got the best politicians money can buy. Imagine what would be discovered if the presidential papers from Reagan/Bush, Clinton and Bush were to see the light of day. Probably make Enron look minor.