Posted on 06/28/2002 1:53:03 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Dick Gephardt's appalled. Tom Daschle's chagrined. Congress, in general, is at wit's end.
It's time for us to do something, they say. WorldCom. Enron. Global Crossing. Enough.
Here's what I say: not so fast. Before you start policing other peoples' books, police your own.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!...Cook this, you slime governcraps!...both parties!...Bwahahaha!!!...This crap just slays me..."Clean your own house"?...That would take the entire workforce of Merry Maids....
Face it folks, we are left without a can of RAID, and we ain't gonna win against the insects...JMHO
FMCDH
Rock on, Mudboy, rock on!!!!!
But the mystery to me is why Americans are so upset over an isolated case of a private company using devious accounting gimmicks and demanding that Congress do something, while we accept without question the accounting fraud and deception that has become an inherent feature of government. I'd like to think that it's ignorance rather than a preference for government dishonesty.
Amen, Dr. Williams. We need to make a long, loud, continuous stink about government accounting policies.
Thanks for posting this, Mark.
If our Legislators are so fiscally lax and corrupt it seems a logical step to MAKE THEM CLEAN UP THIER INCOMPETENCE AND OUTRIGHT THEFT of our taxpayer's money NOW Before dealing out justice to companies simply following their lead, who assume immunity from accountability precisely because the country's leaders are so totally corrupt.
Thank God we have an honest and moral President, at last. Now, let's see what he can accomplish in the next 3 years toward cleaning this mess up. It won't be easy. Those who are corrupt and those who benefit from their corruption will use any and every means at their disposal to protect the corruptioon they created.
If I'm not mistaken, credit should go to Foghorn Leghorn - AKA Fritz Hollings (D)
I say we get rid of the IRS and the income tax which is the BIGGEST fraud ever on the American people.
It will take a revolution of biblical proportions to cut the bastards off at the knees, but when it's done WE will be the ones calling the shots and NOT them.
In my day, it still is.
Researchers have been unable to find a written version of Dirksen's most famous quotation. Cautioning against treating the federal budget casually, Dirksen observed that the unit of money favored by those seeking to fund programs is a million later versions had it a billion dollars. "A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
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