Adam Ash

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Bush Soc Sec plan is another Enron fix

'Just when Americans are being told it's safe to hand over their savings to Wall Street again, he's baaack! Looking not unlike Chucky, the demented doll of perennial B-horror-movie renown, Ken Lay has crawled out of Houston's shadows for a media curtain call. His trial is still months away, but there he was last Sunday on "60 Minutes," saying he knew nothin' 'bout nothin' that went down at Enron. This week he is heading toward the best-seller list, as an involuntary star of "Conspiracy of Fools," the NY Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald's epic account of the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme anointed America's "most innovative company" (six years in a row by Fortune magazine). Coming soon, Alex Gibney's "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," a documentary seen at Sundance, goes into national release next month. As long as your pension wasn't wiped out, it's morbidly entertaining.' In this article, Frank Rich connects Enron-style hoodwinking to the Bush administration's creation of BS to sell invading a country and handing your Social Security over to Wall Street. Will we fall for Enron tactics again? Listen, you CAN fool most of the people most of the time.

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