I’ve been wondering when the chapter and verse about Eric Shaeffer’s departure from his job as chief enforcement officer at EPA would come. Now it has. (Link lifted from Lavonne, with thanks).
It appears that in his prior life, Mr. Bush too felt that being a corporate director meant never having to conform to SEC rules. He seems to be guilty of oversight, at least. I liked the quote from some aide: “It’s like doing 60 in a 55mph zone,” implying that everyone does it. Well, let’s see. If there are 10,000 publicly-held corporations in the country, and each has nine directors, that would be 90,000 potential cases like his. Last I looked, there were about 287.5 million people in the country. That would mean that there are 286,410,000 people who are not doing it. Voodoo math, Mr. Bush?
Nobody caught me on the arithmetic…that should be 287,410,000 people. How embarrassing.
Ha! My eyes just glaze over at the mere mention of math. That EPA stuff is spooky, huh? It takes little time to destroy what has taken many, many years to carefully build–what’s left for our future generations?
heh – a million here, a million there, pretty soon you’re talking about real people. wait, that doesn’t work.
anyway, it amuses me greatly to compare and contrast mr. bush’s speech with his behavior. not that i’m surprised. and the amusement has a sick feeling to it. but …. where was i?