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To: mph who wrote (53580)11/16/2006 7:46:41 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 90947
 
"high level of arrogance among the rich and powerful. That's how you get the Enron fiasco, options backdating scandals, how the Pelosi's were able to skirt regulations in connection with that Lion's Gate development, the Abramoff scandal, and on and on and on."

Now you are talking about the nouveau riche. They are people without proper home ethical training on the responsibility that money and power place upon a person. The answer to the queston that those people lacked the intellectual curiosity to ask is Noblesse Oblige.