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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (14297)	6/5/2004 11:28:23 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Everyone with their eyes open in California knew this was happening, but Davis was ineffectual at getting Bush to do anything about it. It was pretty obvious; power plants offline went from the historical norm of ~5% to upwards of 15%; energy disappeared, then miraculously appeared on the spot market for $200+/megawatt. They sucked all they could from California, while Bush happily sat around watching the state that didn't vote for him suffer. That's teach 'em, he thought. It cooked Davis' goose (he was incompetent, he should have raked Bush over the coals), and got them their 'Governor Ahhhhnold'. You see, Bush practiced screwing the nation and world on California first. He was a quick study...

To: Doug R who wrote (14297)	6/6/2004 12:12:50 AM
From: nz_q	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Ken Lay, former CEO Enron The Kingpin. Lay presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcies and schemes to defraud investors that America has ever seen. Shareholders, workers and pensioners lost BILLIONS of dollars while Lay lined his pockets with millions of dollars in stock option gains; Lay had total compensation of over $100,000,000 in 2001 alone. Advised employees to buy Enron stock after he was informed Enron was ready to implode wallstreetmostwanted.com Enron's last-minute bonus orgy Days before filing for bankruptcy, the scandal-ridden company rewarded some executives with million-dollar bonuses as laid-off workers were denied severance packages... "According to one former senior executive, Enron's original severance package -- subsequently scrapped -- cost $120 million and would have provided each employee approximately $30,000 in severance on average. That plan was reduced, then discarded. Instead, at least $105 million was distributed in executive bonuses. "What I'd like to know is why the creditors' committee is letting them get away with this," the former executive asks. "What about this new CEO, Stephen Douglas, doesn't he need that money to operate? This is outright fraud and theft." salon.com