Write 3 Paragraphs For Your Response: analysis your discussion to bring depth for your discussion AND don't forget your critical thinking skills My father was a Baptist minister and he was ordained a Baptist minister while I was very young probably two, three years old. Ken Lay was a Baptist Preacher's son in a family that had been poor all it's life and he, throughout his life, worked several jobs as a kid and clearly had in mind that things could be better..and wanted things to be better. He had a huge ambition to make wealth for himself. He told a story later about sitting on a tractor, dreaming about the world of business and how different it could be from the way things were for him and his family. Lay was a PhD in economics and he became, very early on, a real apostle for deregulation. He was way ahead of the curve on this. He was thinking about energy markets that would be deregulated. And in particular, the natural gas industry that was shackled by regulation. And he pushed aggressively in Washington to change all of that. In Washington, Lay became part of a new crusade to liberate businessmen from the rules and regulations of govemment. Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. The societies which have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace. The magic power of deregulation pushed Ken Lay to found Enron in 1985. Through a merger of vast networks of natural gas pipelines, Lay thought Enron would be poised to take advantage of the govermment's decision to let gas prices float with the currents of the market. Ken Lay had a view of deregulation from the standpoint of all the money that he thought could be made. Ken Lay wasn't alone. A couple of Texas oilmen shared his views on how to get government out of the energy business. I think they could sort of understand each other. It was a professional courtesy between a sidewinder and a timber rattlesnake. Lay was closer to the father. But while he was govemor of Texas George W. Bush was only too happy to make phone calls for Ken Lay. This absolutely has no precedent. This is by far and away the most important, major relationship of a Presidential family with a single corporation in American history. When Rich Kinder, one of Enron's Executives, left the company, Lay arranged for a video valentine. Rich, I've... been asked to think of one thing I could say to you on your departure from Enron. It'd be this, Dont leave Texas. 'Rich, you have been fantastic to the Bush family. I don't think anybody did more than you did to support George and, of course, in this stage of my life, and Barbara's too, that's what really matters. Your family and your friends