EYE ON THE SPARROW :

PREZ PUSHES PRISON FOR SCAMMERS (DEBORAH ORIN, June 29, 2002, NY Post)

A furious President Bush yesterday warned corporate chiefs to stop "trying to fudge the numbers"--and the White House said he wants "bad apples" to go directly to jail.

Bush will come to Wall Street to personally deliver that stern message to the titans of industry on July 9 as he copes with escalating corporate scandals that could spell political and economic trouble. [...]

"Corporate America has got to understand there's a higher calling than trying to fudge the numbers, trying to slip a billion here or a billion there and hope nobody notices," Bush said at a GOP fund-raiser yesterday.

As Everett Dirksen once said : " A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Posted by Orrin Judd at June 29, 2002 5:51 AM