Ted Rall for August 20, 2005
Transcript:
If corporations can be trusted to regulate themselves voluntarily, why not us? (Man 1: Yeah- why not us. corporate dude?) Most Fortune 500 companies have been charged with crimes. (Bush: You can't punish the few good corporations for the sins of a bad majority.) Most individuals, by contrast, will never do anything worse than break the speed limit. (Man 2: Only because they live in terror of the cops.) Let's scrap those cumbersome laws and regulations, close expensive jails and trust Americans to do the right thing. (Man 1: Yeah- those regulations are hobbling my ability to compete!) And if they don't (Man 3: They'll become pariahs. People are social. They'll be nice out of social self-interest. A bad idea isn't bad until it's been tried repeatedly, so let's rock! (Man 1: Take me off your Christmas card list.)