Not sure what the deal is but I seem to be stuck at the high point of my rage cycle. There is so much greed around me that it hurts. I'm sure all of you by now have read about the Worldcom tragedy. Its quite funny how the media totally accepts the press releases by the company as truth. How the hell can it be that the entire scam was pulled off by one person. The company amusingly retorts that they've found the evil and fired it, as if they've slayed some magic source of evil. Doesn't the dirty bastard of a company know that this scam their executives (notice the use of the plural to implicate all the suits) designed jacks 17,000 people of all or atleast some of their livelihood? When you read messages like this and this, it really makes you think about things for a minute. There was even a message from a guy contemplating suicide. Obviously I don't believe every word I've read, but out of 17,000 people who will lose their job by Friday, even if a small fraction will have serious financial woes thats way too many people. All because some bitchass CEOs wanted to inflate the value of their stock options by cooking the books and not actually turning a profit (don't forget Sunbeam, Tyco, Enron, etc). Not allowing the reforms recommended by the FASB regarding the stock option loophole is coming to bite America in the ass now. Now every one of those representative dogs that ate money to pressure Levitt to not let the FASB reform pass is doing a sweet 180 and "condemning" this "utter disregard for honesty and ethics". This whole period of time should officially be recognized as a vast reality based experiment by the rich elite and the Wall Street elitists. I hope something serious is done to those who are responsible for this. By serious I mean jail time, frozen and repossessed assets, etc. I want to see one of these bastards directly responsible asking me if I want a large drink with that 7-layer. I don't hate money, but I hate what it does to the weak minded.
Anyway enough lashing out. I think we should think about more beautiful things like when humanity for the first time felt united as a whole upon seeing the movies and photos beamed back to Earth from Apollo 8.
My wish for today is that every American soccer mom and EVERY Texan get a Unimog. That way America could slowly speed up the destruction of the entire world and itself too! Yay for the destruction of the world!
Damn it! The sun is lost again, I have to go look for it. I'll be back!
Posted by Mr. Keyur at June 27, 2002 12:22 AM