6/02/2004

Class and tact, Enron style

There's disease in society that has gone undocumented by the medical and psychological fields: Greed. In the future, when this disease is "discovered" and documented, the best example of it may be displayed on videotapes showing Enron traders cheering while forests burned in California. And judging from their quotes, that may not be the worst thing they did.

When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports.

"Burn, baby, burn," the traders sang. ...

"He just f---s California," says one Enron employee. "He steals money from California to the tune of about a million." ...

"They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" complains an Enron employee on the tapes. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, grandma Millie, man"

"Yeah, now she wants her f------g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a------ for f------g $250 a megawatt hour."

I'll support the death penalty for these assholes.