I thought this was why people ran for high office; to cheat, lie
and steal with more power to get away with it. Making money dishonestly is known
in the USA as "getting ahead." Very high ideals are placed on selling worthless
stuff to gullible people and slapping similar crooks on the back at cocktail
parties. Everybody wants to do it; if they don't they are
"UnAmerican."
These are part of the "family values" that are held in such
high esteem in my native country. Who am I to question them?
The ultimate
goal of every red-blooded American is to make millions of dollars and honesty is
not considered an impediment to that goal. If it can be done without doing
anything to earn it or by dishonest methods all the better.
And don't
forget; in the USA the very condition of having lots of money makes one
"smart."
No matter how one gets it.
For uninitiated, overserious individuals
without a sense of humor the above is known as cynical
sarcasm.
>
> http://www.flybynews.com/cgi-local/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid
>
1011305019,92452
> ....All this could simply be chalked up as yet another
story
> of corporate
> greed run amok, until the umbilical political
and financial
> connections
> between Bush and Enron are
illuminated.
