My rant about trust

I would just like to ask everyone here a little question:
Who the F:) are we supposed to trust?
Government-cant thanks to guys like cheney who heads up a major oil company and sends all their money to the caymans tax free?
Corporations- Merc, Xerox, Enron, WorldComm, oh and you can be certain we havent heard the rest of this.

Forget terrorists and hackers, we have politicians and businesspeople.

The purpose of all this is to say thanks, because at least here it seems like someone is watchin out. oh yeah-also just a thought-put some money in a swiss account before your boy greenspan flips out too.

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Who the F are we supposed to trust?

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Trust no one.

There are only 3 people I trust.....

Me, Myself, and I

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Have you by chance read "the Medusa Files" by craig roberts, or "Downsize This" by michael moore? It'll strengthen yer trust *snicker* in our government and corporations.

They are two very well written books that have a high degree of focus on what you are ranting about.

i dont have anything that will concern trust. No money, No cares, nothing. I have my own problems to deal, then get in to the politcal ring. Everything has thier "little lies to hid" ......I truly feel sorrow for what is going on in corporate America, but things have been going on forever. We just have more companies getting caught.... I hope that the President will do something about it. The Closing of the ford plants in Flint...you dont think there were ceo, and cfo making side money. But It wasnt in the spot lite. or was investigated to the full extent. They just transfer money to another ford plant, and go from there...(my opinion on the situation.)

Why do you think I have this signature ;)

Ponders> Coorperate America has been doing this **** for years and it's just now we are starting to notice it. Investers have been trusting these clowns for years, but for a lot of people, what can they do? We rely on them for our bread and butter and we just "hope" not trust they will not shaft us with a broomstick... so far, it seems your friendly neighborhood "trusted" company is just as crooked and greedy. As for the prez, what can he do? Not a lot. Trust nobody.

just yesterday i had a bitter experience because i trusted a friend of mine and he tried to cheat me but i caught him before that.

Trust no one..

You can trust, but just be prepared for the possibility that it might be broken. Not trusting at all is kind of a bad thing.

what is bothering me is the the foundation that america exists on is in shambles. we are in terrible terrible times, and without any sory of trust in our economy or government all of the world will suffer. i maybe have to join u up in canada

AngryBob do you really think the Canadian government is any better. We have enough problems with the provincial governments trying to screw the working Johns also with the cut backs in lumber and farming the jobs are getting fewer every day. The whole economic foundation is crumbling around the world and no one is willing to step up to the plate and try to fix it. Sorry AngryBob but the grass isnt greener up here either.

Here's the catch though, before this big huge companies did this.

Would any of us do the same thing if we were in the Ceo's Position, or someone lower than that put would go into it for a few million. I could guarantee almost 70% of us would. Probably not now due to President Bush is trying to head up another "party" to watch over these companies. for ex. your the copier boy, and you over heard some things, or they asked you to get rid of some paperwork, and for your trouble, I will give you a million dollars. Now who wouldnt take that offer even knowing it is illegal.

I would do it.....(i might not be trusty worthy, but i would be rich) until I got caught, but again, im only the copy boy....) :D

I trust the government more than one of my brothers.:blast:
That is sad.

Life sucks, then you die. ::angel2::

In God We Trust $$$... make more $ and trust yer self..

AngryBob,
Trust nobody except your LORD, not even yourself.

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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Don't know where that's quoted from but I think it applies here to Corporate America now. All business starts with someone's dream and if successful, is probably bought out, changed, you name it. Businesses in the 90's were able to do whatever they wanted with no real repercussion of being found out/etc. Now, it's all coming back around full circle as we're seeing Enron, Arthur Anderson, Worldcom, Xerox, Computer Associates, etc etc...

One of the seven deadly sins is greed. And there's a shitload of it in Corporate America now. Sure, the worldcom CFO got fired but what about his severance? Probably a couple mill....yeah, there we go, he was fired but gets a few million or whatever? How does THAT golden parachute work?

You can trust me~! ;)

how about GOD? I haven't tried that one yet.

Unfortunately we cant trust anybody. That really sucks because trust is a beutiful thing. if you can truley trust someone to the point of death then you have this inner feeling of happiness. The world we live in today cannot do that because we think about only one thing.... and that is money. If you look at it everything leads to money.

Money leads to mistrust, mistrust leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to the dark side....

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for ex. your the copier boy, and you over heard some things, or they asked you to get rid of some paperwork, and for your trouble, I will give you a million dollars. Now who wouldnt take that offer even knowing it is illegal.

I would do it.....(i might not be trusty worthy, but i would be rich) until I got caught, but again, im only the copy boy....)

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That's a good point, Ponders. When it's a choice between a million dollars or your job, then I guess one would naturally do it and hope it does not come back to haunt you. I can see that happening at Arther Andersen with all these people doing as the boss told them to do; shred those docs... NOW!

And as the copy boy myself, I have never seen even a fraction of a million dollars so I cannot even comprehend what I would do... pay my bills, take a vacation, pay off my house, give to charity.... starts feeling really greedy now...

Well Numb, what would you do with a few million. since i was a copy boy, I would start a union, (another way to get money$$$$) then I would probably go crazy....and if anything went down with the company, or I heard one thing about it, Im heading to another country. Who is going to point the finger at the copy boy? The fed's would just laugh at the cfo or upper mgmt.......

Now in reply to trusting the government than you brother (not you Numb) I dont trust the government at all.....Wait today is Thursday? My Unemployment is due to come today.....yeeepeee.... :cool: