Originally posted by capt. apathy
AFAIK the scamming lying from enron came more reciently than 97 so it would apear to me that this info is a little out of context. That has yet to be determined. The investigation has just started...
unfortunatly big business kicking down money to politicians is just the way it works around here. i don't know of any politicians on the federal level who haven't recieved any big bussiness money.
it sux but the people this situation benifits have recieved enough power and money from it that they can now ensure that it stays this way. Yes you are correct. I just hope that Waxman investigates the ties to the Clinton administration too. It was his whitehouse durring the most of the time in question. I'm more worried if Bush did something wrong while he was Gov. here in Tx. Phil Grahams wife was on the Board of directors of Enron and was subpena'd (sp?) yesterday. Both he and Kay Bailey were the 2 highest receipiants of their donations too, I don't like the smell of that, but the company was texas based I guess.
clinton did more than enough sleazy stuff to provide plenty of factual ammo on him, use that LOL, we already tried that but the left just closed their ears, eyes and minds.
I do like the way the Bush administration is handling it so far. They seem to be disclosing everything they should be openly and honestly. I guess time will tell if they continue to do this, I think they will. I know that if this had happened with Clinton in office we'd be seeing Lanny Davis, "serpant head" James Carvel and all the other Clinton apologists on TV everyday explaining how it's all just a coinsidence and that Clinton did nothing wrong, while his lawers would be working behind the scenes stopping ANY info from getting to where it is needed or wanted by the investigators. I also have already seen CNN and MSNBC pose the question "is this big enough to bring down the whitehouse" so that's the way they are going to play it I fear. I bet they say that he should have helped, even though had he they'd be all over him for paying back a big contributer. So GW may be (actually has been to people in the left) in the damned if you do, damned if you don't catagory.
Personally I think we have a case of company execs breaking laws and screwing their employees to make money with shadey accounting tricks. It's truely F'ed up that the employees couldn't get the Enron stock out of their 401K's, but that's what you get for putting all your eggs in one basket. Hopefuly they'll make it so that if your company is going to contribute matching funds they have to do it where ever you chose to invest your money, not just in their own stock like Enron did.
This has the potential to be real bad for the USA and Texas. We're at war and it's not a good time to start this kind of toejam. This thing could bring down several members of Congress, Bush or people in his administration and God knows who or what here in Texas. I'm really worried about it, but it's in politics now so we'll probobly never know....
