Posted on 07/05/2006 7:03:35 AM PDT by ElRushbo
Bush would not have pardoned him. But now your brother in law is in the enviable position that he can say "Bush would have pardoned Lay, if Lay had not died," and you won't have any proof to the contrary.
Did you mean to reply to me? I believe you and I agree on this.
Golfing buddy of Beelzebubba, eh? You'd never know that from the crAP report I just read, the reporter made a point of mentioning that President Bush would call him "Kenny Boy".
RIP
Yes he committed fraud, not murder or child molestation. He hurt many people. There were plenty of good hard working people at Enron, who lost everything they had becuase they couldn't sell when the prices started going down. Lay sacrificed the retirement and financial security of thousands of his employees and their families, so that he could buy another vacation home and continue his affluent life style.
I have no problem with someone making a lot of money. If they earn it good for them. Ken Lay didn't earn his fortune, he stole it from his employees.
He created far more jobs than were lost in the Enron collapse.
That's true - irresponsible people often blame anyone but themselves for their misfortunes.
I have a wife and kids and if I ever were stupid enough to invest all my family's money in a single growth stock and I lost all that money, I'd be looking around for scapegoats too.
Some believe he is not even dead. Pathetic.
Wrong.
A company rule which coincidentally did not apply to the ones making the rule (the execs).
No company can prevent employees from selling vested shares of stock - that's complete hooey.
Self inflicted heart attack?
Yes !
I gotta tell you, I don't think Ken Lay was this monster they made him out to be. An inept CEO.......yes! He had no business holding the reins of this company and he let others play him like a cheap fiddle, further proof he should have been replaced........so many lives ruined and a big corporation that employed thousands, bites the dust and a sad ending for Lay's family. But, that's just me and the way I see it.
Lay deserved to spend the rest of his natural life in prison.
So, those sad stories on Nightly News, those people were just idiots?
Your post one minute after conspiracy theory of 'Arkancide' posted here at FreeRepublic.
That is funny.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think so.
Dear wideawake,
"Note to slow-on-the-uptake investors: the stock market is risky."
Actually, the stock market is more volatile than risky. At least when you don't stupidly put all or most of your money in the shares of a single company.
The problem is that a lot of the shareholders who were left holding the bag weren't as much greedy as they were stupid. They didn't know any better. They figured, "Hey, the company's doing great, I have umpteen hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock, why would I invest in other investments that wouldn't do as well?"
Nonetheless, I don't think that Mr. Lay was responsible for their stupid behavior.
sitetest
"Well, now my liberal brother-in-law won't be able to yark about 'Bush is gonna pardon the SOB'"
No, he got a "pardon" from a higher power.
Tell that to someone 62-65 years old and just lost their pension and life savings. You lost a job once and got over it? Not quite the same thing. These people were lied to again and again. Rules were made to prevent them from diversifying.
That is something you wish on few people. Ken Lay does not fit the category.
Why did Clinton's buddy at Global Crossing get ooff? Didn't he do the same thing?
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