Lost Enron Commercial - Columbus (1997)

[exenrontexas]

The executives at ENRON were totally dedicated to the ideas of AYN RAND whose ideas ONLY worked in fiction. In the end, Rand took Social Security and Medicare even though she was their strongest critic. In the dictionary under hypocrite there is a picture of Rand and under fraud there is a picture of Ken Lay.

[JamieinMN]

@exenrontexas Paul Rand is the guy who designed their logo, along with many other companies.

[exenrontexas]

@JamieinMN Actually the first ENRON CORP logo was designed by Dennis Bodammer. His office was two doors down from mine. Skilling changed it since it wanted to make it SEEM as if Enron was his creation but the truth is Skilling and Lay made very little profit themselves. The only part of ENRON that ever really made any money was Northern Natural Gas which started in Omaha and is now back in Omaha under Warren Buffett. Lay sold off assets to cover losses and then hired Skilling to cook the books.

[JamieinMN]

@exenrontexas i've never seen the first enron logo. but after i posted your comment, i saw you said Ayn Rand and not Paul. sorry, I just seen the last name and thought that's who you were talking about.

[JamieinMN]

i actually like the enron logo.  regardless of the company being good or bad, the logo is a creative one. Paul Rand knew how to make a logo...

[exenrontexas]

@JamieinMN Well the design is definitely tainted by the evil actions of the ENRON executives but that is no Mr. Rands fault. Enron Corp had a perfectly good logo before and I believe that Skilling ordered the new one to break with the Lay regime and to make it seem fresh and new. Like most other things at ENRON, it was a lie. It was also extremely expensive but that was paid for by the employees and shareholders.

[LoopInc]

fuck enron from california

[Quentinsama]

free market capitalism means not to influence the market. They influenced the market and made it an unfair competition which in the end exploded in their faces well and in the faces of stockowners, inverstors, other companies and nations.

[Duck4212]

Free market capitalism as practice by Enron would have bankrupted our entire country. No country on Earth wanted to live Enron's vision . We can thank God they failed.

[diurdi]

@Duck4212 Enron didn't practice free market capitalism. They practiced fraud which is illegal.

[Duck4212]

Free market capitalism as practice by Enron would have bankrupted our entire country. No country on Earth wanted to live Enron's vision . We can than God they failed.

[vaibanez17]

This was before they figured out that stealing electricity from a state and then giving it back to them after a mini-crisis caused the price per unit to go up 1000% above normal market value could make them millions and millions of dollars whenever they wanted....

[imanerd36]

Then jacked up their energy prices 20x.