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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (957)	1/26/2002 10:27:42 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5185

The "Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again?" (January 15, 2002, Los Angeles Times ) article by Robert Scheer clearly shows there was some serious hobnobbing taking place between the Bush presidents and Enron's Ken Lay. Enron, after all, got pretty good at not having to pay any corporate taxes and certainly had some nice deregulation government policies convienently knock on its energy door. And how 'bout those hundreds of Enron subsidiaries and partnerships hanging out in the Caymens, a place where banks ignore U.S. subpeanors! And of the shredding? Yes, there's a whole lotta shreddin' goin' on! Given the elder Bush's CIA connections as the former Director, I'm beginning to wonder if Enron played a role with America's 'black budget' which supports 'black ops.' I guess the question now lingers in a somewhat begging form: How many 007s were heady on Enron's global payroll? I remember when the extreme right played so hard that Vince Foster was done in by the Clintons. Can today the extreme left now lay claim that Enron's number two, Cliff Baxter, is to the Bushes what Foster was to the Clintons? Hey! What exactly got shredded anyway? And why? Yeah, I guess it gets pretty crazy when the fiction and drama of books and movies becomes more and more the reality we live. No doubt about it. There's so much heavy goin' on. And what pains me the most is it need not be this way at all. I'd like to think that we, as a people, are better then this. But then I'm reminded of New Rome, Ohio where 60 citizen residents are protected by a police force of 13, Taliban of a different kind. So what makes Enron different? And what makes Bush better except for the fact he came connected? Hey, Al Gore wouldda responded to the Twin Towers by going after Ben Laden's terrorists. Would he, too, have hit the high-80s in the opinion polls? Would he have given speeches at tougher audiences, and ones more difficult than school children? Probably. And, yes, the Enron matter'd be different too, wouldn't it? I think. I hope someone discovers Boeing's rug...so it goes!