Al Sharpton on Corporations Reverend; Civil Rights Activist; Democratic Candidate for President

Corporate misdeeds came from runaway deregulation

SHARPTON: Anytime you�ve seen, from Enron where thousands of people�s life earnings gone, to now in the midst of record unemployment, the vulgarity of what happened here on Wall Street with $130 million salaries, that that is something the American people need to understand came from deregulation. It came from a social policy set in Washington.

When you have no-bid contractors rebuilding Iraq, if any Democrat holding office in this country had given away those no-bid contracts, they would be in front of a grand jury, probably in court as a defendant. If any Democrat holding office in this country had given away those no-bid contracts, they would be in front of a grand jury, probably in court as a defendant.

This is an absolute issue that should be raised before the American people. Greed and runaway deregulation I think has added to the deficit.

Favors fines when companies export jobs

SHARPTON: No. When I say that we should punish companies that go and have offshore corporations to duck taxes, that doesn�t affect our standing with any other country. That affects people like Enron, that had 3,000 offshore companies deduct taxes. That doesn�t hurt other countries, in terms of our enforcement.

People are told to serve country-companies should do same