Listening to George Will

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sun Sep 22 11:06:58 PDT 2002



>attack CEO salaries when he's fought against every policy that might have
>brought about a different outcome. Gee is they had had to pay a fair tax,
>spending all their energy getting these rewards might have been less
>attractive If the company had had to pay a fair social/environmental tax,
>it wouldn't have had the bucks to pay these salaries. If Labor had a real
>seat at the table of Society. ETC, etc. The Soveriegn of Sanctimony
>weeping over the products of Sanctimony. Disgusting. Really. (puke)

What a fuckin' hypocrite. John Cassidy has an excellent piece in this week's New Yorker about the "Cycle of Greed" and it's Republican and Democratic enablers but it's not online.

But perhaps this is a sign that "things have changed" and that Carrol was wrong and (typically) pessimistic last year when he said nothing would come of Enron.

Peter



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