Jack Welch w/Tweety: "The Prison thing is just bad quality control."

that miserable piece of filth just said that to tweety, talking about the myriad instances of torture/murder that went on at Abu Ghraib.

I swear, those were his exact words.

that's all I could take; his evil decaying countenance was more than enough to make me change channels.

bad quality control...spoken exactly like a rich, soulless, corporate asshole, who only sees human beings as cogs in his profit making machine.

that was one of the most sickening things I think I've EVER heard.

and we all know that this is the asshole that turned the like of Matthews and Russert to the dark side, as if they ever had anything but their own ambition at heart to begin with.

what was Russert's famous quote about signing with NBC: "Integrity is for paupers!"

Disgusting.

didn't some other guys think of things like housing large numbers of prisoners in very corporate, efficient terms?

didn't those people use the forerunners of IBM computers to ease the transportation of said prisoners to their final destination, doing so in a very efficient, businesslike manner?

does that fat yellow headed prick have even the SLIGTEST sense of irony?

I missed that part, btw.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

He has his priorities.

think that "I feel bad to say I'm a businessman"

CM asks Welch if he thinks that businessman set out to do things like Lay/Skilling did, or the Fannie Mae managers

Welch: No, they just sort of fell into it, and thought they were doing RIGHT!

amazing

I worked at GE from 84 to 90, it was the greatest job in the world until Jack imposed his unique brand of "management" upon us. He had a very direct role in what has happened to American corporate morality today. The man is scum, I hope I live to piss upon his grave...

when he left, almost the whole office in which he worked asked him if he could take them with him

he loathes Welch every bit as much as you do.

one of the things he had to do was take over a guy's job in Cleveland who'd been laid off to cut expenses. problem is, he already HAD one in Milwaukee. hard to be in two places at once.

I was only half listening and it sounded like Welsh said something to the effect that corporate thieves like the Enron bunch talk themselves into beliiving there is nothing wrong with stealing in much the same way that whistle-blowers convince themselves that blowing the whistle is a good thing.

So both the thieves and the folks that blow the whistle on them are dishonest? Man, what an ass.

he defended the likes of Skilling/Lay by saying they got caught up in their own way of doing business, and convinced themselves they weren't doing anything wrong.

tweety set it up with the asinine question of whether these types sat around from the getgo, conspiring in advance to do what they did.

on the other hand, isn't that exactly what they did in California, then expanded that as far as they could, with the HELP of Bush, for example, when he called Tom Ridge, to try to talk him into adopting the same energy policy in Texas that ended up bringing bankruptcy to California?

is one of his prize tools to make it happen.

Does anyone think GE bought control of the NBCs in the 80s because they wanted Americans to know more about their government?

......10% of his career working and the other 90% as a back-stabbing low-life corporate politician.

He certainly isn't well informed re: current events. He talks out his ass and gets away with it because he's "Jack Welch."