posted on February 14, 2002 11:45:20 PM new
I am so very proud today to be a woman. Sherron Watkins has shown more courage than all those Enruined guys combined. Wasn't she just terrific today, smart, forceful, honest, forthright, etc. etc.
We need lots more people like her in the business world.
posted on February 15, 2002 08:08:46 AM new
Wow! I confess I haven't thought of Ms. Watkins as a shill, as someone protecting Ken Lay! I just felt that she showed a lot of courage in facing that committee yesterday. Wasn't she a whistleblower in a way?
Both of you, please tell me more. You don't have to call her any names, of course, just tell me more about the basis of your feelings about her. Thanks.
posted on February 15, 2002 08:58:52 AM new
The fact that she kept this job, knowing what she knew, doesn't say much about her integrity.
She said that she couldn't complain before August about the "alarming" accounting irregularities to Skilling or Fastow because she would have lost her job.
posted on February 15, 2002 09:34:52 AM new"Wasn't she a whistleblower in a way?"
I saw her in the same light that was displayed by Oliver North's testimony in the Iran-Contra Affair. That she is a nice person, I'll bet that she genuinely is and for that reason, she was choosen to toss the committee it's political bone. Enron has enriched everyone on the committe so ddeply that who can believe that they are acting in our best intersts? Talk is cheap and politicans never have enough of it! Its OK to say that they are investigating for the sake of all of those investors and the employees, but we already know what the coutcome will be. As per the usual payoffs, middlemen get convicted, sent to country-club prisions, then pardoned after a short while; or prematurely released by a sympathetic judge (whose own campaign needs contribtuions to, no doubt). The stolen millions upon millions of dollars will never be recovered - the U.S. government won't even try. That this has become an opportuinty for Bush to propose that the U.S. government bankroll Wall Street investors against losses with our tax money is something that no one is even complaining about yet.
Borillar
"Friends don't let friends vote republican"
posted on February 15, 2002 10:29:14 AM new
"But Ms. Watkins, a vice president for corporate development, said she believed Mr. Lay "did not understand the gravity of the situation the company was in." Even after she explained to him in detail the company's questionable accounting practices and huge hidden losses, she said, Mr. Lay still "didn't get it."
Does it make any sense to believe that someone with the credentials of Watkins... auditor and a vice president for corporate development, could really believe that Ken Lay "didn't get it?"
posted on February 15, 2002 04:26:09 PM new
Oh, absolutely! That's why they choose Kenneth Lay to run Enron -- another puppet, just like Puppet Bush is!
Borillar
"Friends don't let friends vote republican"
posted on February 15, 2002 04:45:06 PM new
Okay, I give! You people have convinced me that S. Watkins isn't a true goddess, but I still give her credit for courage to face that committee, even if she didn't have the guts to quit her job last summer.
posted on February 15, 2002 09:11:21 PM new
roadsmith, no where did I say that it didn't take courage on her part to be there. As per usual, someone is going to be looked at for a scapegoat to pin all of the blame upon to cover up for the rest of the wrongdoers, and she taking biug chances doing what she's done. After all, she never knows if some of the committee members have been bribed to charge her as the scapegoat in all of this. Back-stabbing is the norm there.
Borillar
"Friends don't let friends vote republican"
posted on February 15, 2002 09:26:45 PM new
Important questions were not answered.
readers digest, did you fight porn in your city by siging the americans for repression petition ?
Wall Street journal, what investment strategy do you follow,
Newsweek, what have you done to help diversity in the corporate world?
Time, Lady of the year what is your dogs name
psychich hotline How come we didn't know enron was going under ?
Cosmo, what sort of panties do you or your man wear ?
Playboy, how much to take off your clothes
Hustler, how much to pose with Jesse helms?
Milwaukee Journal, will you be suporting free trade with the peoples republic of slime and dungeons ?
Chicago tribune, Would mr lay Like to Meet the Poitical Bosses Here ?
Republican Party, please dont ask what we did with the money
Democratic party Got any money left ?
Jerry fallwell are you born again ?
Pat Sajack, wanna be on my new show ?
Rush Limbaugh, Now that the corporation has fallen dont you think that this was the fault of clinton and the democrats liberal policies ?
the berkley observer, is'int it true that your part of a right wing conspiracy,
william Buckley Isit not a fact that you have been put in this position to make the public asistance programs accessible to an even broader selection of loafers ?
