[waybrig]

Very interesting article Purrybonker. Too bad it didn't spur any better replies than this. Unfortunately it seems the pervasive American attitude is to not worry about what is right or wrong, but whether or not you can get away with it. It seems like lawyer mentality: everything is ok if you can rationalize it to yourself. Unfortunately, these crooks aren't very good at getting away with things.

Our society allows people to basically rise as high as you like based on how hard you're willing to work. Unfortunately many people would rather take the easy way out and mooch off the hard work of others. Even our business leaders do the same thing. See Enron, Worldcom, etc.....

In the end I don't think there is any government conspiracy involved here, just a simple degradation of our society. Maybe this is why other countries do not wish to become "Americanized".