From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 12:39:13 MDT
I believe some aspects of the corporate world, the way business
is actually done rather than some Randian ideal of business,
clearly are a serious problem and lead to some pretty awful
consequences. However, I don't believe, generally speaking,
that the CEOs of the world should be made scapegoats or that
they personally are the source of the problem. The real source
is much more systemic and harder to understand and improve upon.
Of course the politicians and the people would rather find a few
or a group to blame and never really understand or deal with the
problem.
On the other hand, Enron execs acted abominably even within the
larger context and some heads defintely should roll there. The
administration connections to Enron should also be explored.
- samantha
Technotranscendence wrote:
> The War on Business
> by William L. Anderson
>
> With the recent guilty plea of former Enron executive Michael Kopper, it
> seems that the floodgates are now officially open in the government's
> war against American business. Democrats are demanding something just
> short of summary executions, while Republicans and President George W.
> Bush are trying to outdo the Democrats in their anti-business rhetoric,
> and the mainstream news media outlets are playing the role of Joseph
> Goebbels in helping to stir the whole pot of hysteria.
>
>>From Ted Rall and the New York Times on the left to Fox News, the
> Washington Times, and Robert Novak on the right, people are being told
> that U.S. business officers and owners are crooks, charlatans, and
> threats to a free and decent society. Of course, the public is
> responding predictably, as pollster after pollster reports that
> Americans approve of arrests and more arrests of these alleged
> miscreants.
>
> For the rest of this article, see
> http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1041
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