Most of you are familiar with the many recent corporate and accounting scandals, with Enron, Tyco and Worldcom among the most notorious.
In response to these events, even the right-wing controlled Congress felt compelled to act, and they passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is one of the pieces of legislation that the SEC enforces, with these purposes: truthful disclosure by corporations, and honest dealing by brokers and others who sell and trade securities.
The right-wing, which advocates and rules in the interests of the richest Americans, is not happy with Sarbanes-Oxley. They don’t want more protection for the general public.
More protection means the public will keep more of its wealth, instead of losing it to the already too-rich in Enron-type schemes.
How can right-wingers continue to increase the share of the nation's wealth owned by the richest among us, if the public has all these Sarbanes-Oxley protections?
Such a concern has led the right wing to openly plot not only to reverse Sarbanes-Oxley post-Enron reforms, but even to go beyond that, and develop plans to jettison decades-old rights in the financial arena that the public has enjoyed.
Since the right knew it might lose Congress, all of this has been fashioned so that it can be accomplished without Congressional approval.
Also: a correction to last week's podcast concerning what position "Death Squad John" Negroponte currently holds.
This is not a comment on any particular podcast. I just wanted to say that when I first listened to one of your podcasts, I was totally turned off. I didn't like your accent. I didn't like what seemed to me to be a very shrill tone. I didn't like what seemed to me to be a take-no-prisoners attitude towards the right.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, I persevered and continued to listen. As you changed (ever so slightly), so did my reaction. About the time "right-winged pieces of shit" morphed into "right-winged misguided souls," I found myself agreeing with you more and more.
I've reached the point where my natural disapproval and skepticism of the Right has changed into active dislike and distrust.
I've now reached the point where I even vote for you regularly on Podcast Alley, something I don't do for any other podcast.
I do so because I've come to believe that yours is a voice that needs to be heard.
Thank you for all that you do.
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to paraphrase the song jack plays so often....
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SMILE all you fellow progressives those nasty noises that you hear coming from the "right wing niose machine" are the "death wails" of a dying and intelectually BANKRUPT ideology
hope you all enjoy the CD's and spread the word far and wide
... and like jack I am OH SO GLAD that my predictions that they would STEAL this election like they have the last 3 (2000,2002,2004) DID NOT COME TRUE .. because so MANY americans came out and OVERWHELMED their efforts to mess with the elections..
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