On 6/9/05, d.brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the > U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of > dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project > apparently to be built by four former Enron executives. One of > the former executives is Thomas White, former head of Enron's retail > and energy trading in California during the energy crisis who later > served as President Bush's Secretary of the Army.... The federal loan > guarantee makes taxpayers responsible for repaying the loan if the > company defaults, or if the project ends up not being > economically feasible after its construction. > > Meanwhile, the Justice Dept has unilaterally reduced the major > federal civil judgement against the Tobacco industry by 90%. > > Imagine the howls if a similar level of blatant bribery and > corruption had occurred in the Clinton Administration. But this is > normal today.
Is anyone really surpised? Heck, Bush has been favoring big business ever since he first came in- remember how Microsoft *was* going to be broken up, but the DOJ's interventions on its behalf helped overturn Jackson's ruling on appeal? ~Maru Too bad really- if Gore had won, everybody might just be using a real OS. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
