Incorporated criminals Enron, WorldCom et al. plundered mom and pop investors and mismanaged themselves into bankruptcy. Whom to blame remains a mystery.
Sherlock Holmes might ask if it is our exploitive capitalistic system gone to the hounds. Or can elephantine Republicans and Democratic donkeys be accused of sinister plotting? Perhaps the Texas tumbleweed, blown into the White House during a freak election storm, conspired with fellow tycoons under cover of his war on terrorism. Surely, a duplicitous Congress dealing favorable legislation to the powerful is a suspect. You have deduced that business-consulting accountants use math that calculates deficits to be surpluses and that lawyers, being cynical scoundrels, must be up to their posteriors in this muck.
The culprit? “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Each robber baron CEO, indulging wantonness that allows the conquest of selfish over generous, is an evil doer. These grasping barbarians are irreformable and must be banished from polite society, like any rapscallion. That will happen in a parallel universe. In this one, Kenneth Lay and Bernard Ebbers snicker at our constabulary.
“Precisely, Doctor Watson!” Their choking tentacles can be evaded by excusing ourselves from participation with their dastardly companies and the manipulated market on Wall Street. Case closed.
Monroe
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