George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Lecture CEOs on Corporate Responsibility

“Creative accounting” is something we hate.
From now on your numbers will have to be straight.
No taking of options for stock you contrive
To dump when insiders can tell it will dive.
And loans? If you want one, then go to the bank.
These sweetheart loans stink! They’re disgusting! They’re rank!
This type of behavior we strictly forbid.
Just do as we say now, and not as we did.

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“Creative accounting” is something we hate.
From now on your numbers will have to be straight.
No taking of options for stock you contrive
To dump when insiders can tell it will dive.
And loans? If you want one, then go to the bank.
These sweetheart loans stink! They’re disgusting! They’re rank!
This type of behavior we strictly forbid.
Just do as we say now, and not as we did.

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