Posted on 02/28/2006 5:40:57 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
A variety of Heinz products are seen at a convenience store in Golden, Colorado February 28, 2006. H.J. Heinz Co. on Tuesday posted a 23 percent drop in net profit, and fell short of Wall Street estimates, as its tax rate rose and the stronger dollar cut into the value of overseas sales. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
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American business is the best in the world! Yeah! [and pooh on those who oppose ... that means you American Made Turnip].
Yip!
:-)
Somehow they ruined the flavor of most OreIda frozen products.
We LOVE American business. Sorry you don't.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. :-)
Heinz Foundation Bankrolled Group Protesting Bush 9/11 Ads
March 6, 2004
The group Peaceful Tomorrows, which bills itself as an independent group of 9/11 victim families and whose members have led the charge to force the Bush re-election campaign to yank ads citing the Twin Towers attacks, has direct financial ties to the Heinz Foundation, the charitable trust administered by the wife of likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
On its Web site, Peaceful Tomorrows identifies itself as "a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization."
A December 2003 report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review detailed the financial relationship between the Tides Center and the charitable foundation controlled by Mrs. Heinz Kerry:
"Known as the Tides Center for Pennsylvania, formerly the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, it is a creation of the Tides Foundation and Center, headquartered in San Francisco, and two Pennsylvania-based foundations – the Vira Heinz Endowment and the Howard Heinz Endowment – chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry."
According to the Tribune-Review, Mrs. Heinz Kerry funneled millions of dollars into the parent group of Peaceful Tomorrows:
"Between 1995 and 2001, $4.3 million of that money came from the Howard Heinz Endowment. In 2002, it and the Vira Heinz Endowment blessed The Tides Center, a San Francisco spin-off of the Tides Foundation, with another $190,000 while the two endowments gave $1.6 million to the new Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania," the paper revealed.
Though the Tribune-Review report was first unearthed by researchers on FreeRepublic.com within 36 hours of the inception of the Bush ad controversy, the mainstream press has been slow to pick up on Peaceful Tomorrows' anti-Bush pedigree. The group, for instance, has long been active in opposing U.S. involvement in Iraq.
Still, PT's political portfolio escaped the notice of the Washington Post, which described the group as "nonpartisan" on Thursday.
Other mainstream outlets repeatedly quoted PT members without revealing their anti-Bush agenda.
Comments by PT's leader, Colleen Kelly, have been prominently covered by the Associated Press, the Boston Globe and in dozens of other press reports complaining about the Bush ads. None of the reports mentioned PT's money ties to Heinz Kerry.
Andrew Rice, another prominent member of PT, has been quoted in the New York Times and has appeared on MSNBC, again without a single reference to his group's Heinz Foundation funding.
Besides Peaceful Tomorrows, other Tides grant recipients include the Iraq Peace Fund, which has helped bankroll anti-war marches, and MoveOn.org, which featured a campaign ad in November comparing President Bush to Hitler.
I hope that I am a part of the problem. I stopped buying and using Heinz products when John Kerry ran for President.
As far as I am concerned they can go broke.
BTW......do you go to the movies, buy CDs/albums, buy products made by Boar'sHead?
I contributed to the decline of your area's employer when I stopped buying their product.
I am undecided on the port deals yet. I have a huge amount of trust in President Bush to make the right decisions..so whatever he says goes for me.
Neither Terry nor her children have ANYTHING at all to do with the company.
Okay.
Well, we know she's anti-American business to aa good extent. Seems she thinks she's funny or trency or something. Certainly stupid ... and silly and moronic. :)
I love that pic...feel free to use it. I haven't forgotten how far we have come, since Sept 11, 2001 and the courage that President G.W. Bush has shown. I am with him all the way, until he leaves office.
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