The Big Terrorism Plan

By Roy D. Follendore III

June 29, 2002

Remember in the 80's when everyone went to Universities and everyone wanted technology and business management careers? Well the baby boom is over and these graduates have decided it is time to retire rich. As a result, what has taken place is the economic rape of the economy by the MBAs from the 80's. Money gives people the ability to affect other people's lives. But when people do not earn their wealth, they feel they have no responsibility for others. That is what makes the very rich so vulnerable and why they hurt so many people. It feels OK for them to cheat, to lie and to steal from others. After all, they think that everyone expects it and they deserve it. Exactly how do you deserve $100,000,000.00?

The stock market boom was not about producing a product of value. In fact it was not about producing anything of value. Many people who felt we had something of value to contribute were rejected because we might produce something valuable. It is not as easy to divide up something of value among thieves.

The 90's investment boom was about selling a shell of a technology that was of little value, to businesses who felt they could not do without it. It was not about making technology work. It was about demonstrating how important executives became in that process and it was about showing how important we now are by how much money we came away with. It was not about making our country stronger. We knew that a stock market adjustment in the investment community would come about sooner than later. When nothing of value is being manufactured, such situations can simply not be sustained. None of us should have been surprised.

Cooking the corporate books was just the next step. That is also what we are seeing with the recent flux of scandals like Enron and now WorldCom. It is easy for the Federal Government to declare war on cancer, drugs, drunk driving, teenage sex and violence, tobacco, and terrorism. Every time that something negative happens in politics we see our leaders declaring war on something or another. I do not see them throwing the book at the filthy rich bastards that destroy the national security of this country by wrecking our infrastructure and stealing the welfare of thousands of American families.

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