Bush Energy Bill Gives Millions to Former Enron Execs

[Jon8503]

This is truly unbelievable. Public Citizen has discovered provisions buried in President Bush's energy bill "that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives." In fact, "one of the former executives is Thomas White, former head of Enron’s retail and energy trading in California during the energy crisis who later served as President Bush’s Secretary of the Army." See the fill report at:

http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1960

Who put this provision in there? Was it the White House? Or was it one of the White House's allies in Congress? The American people deserve to know before this bill is passed.

[slor]

1. There y'all go agin...

hatin' freedumb! The freedom to bilk the American people!

[bluedeminredstate]

2. They have no shame!!!

There was some evidence (emails, I think) that White knew some of the shit going down. I remember emailing back and forth with the reporter who broke the story then got run out of town with his reputation in tatters.
People lost their life savings and the ability to retire without worrying about poverty. Where's the compensation for them?
If you're in with this crowd, there's always another deal you can get in on. This is the Free Lunch Gang and as long as you keep you mouth shut they'll keep you on the dole.

:rant: