[lentulusgracchus]

The effect of a crackdown "would be very, very significant and very, very costly," says Bert Lance.....

Before he was Jimmy Carter's OMB guy, Bert Lance was a Georgia banker, and a member in good standing of the rich men's club, in the enabling and services division.

Bert Lance and men like him always were, and always will be, Part of the Problem. I wouldn't doubt for a second that he personally profits from illegal immigration, wage hold-downs, illiteracy, poverty, and inability of workers of any description to bargain on wages and working conditions.

Bert knows what all the other men in big white houses know: everyone who isn't a member of the club, is trash. Seven dollars an hour and the county medical clinic are good enough for them.

[Safetgiver]

I remember (barely) some of the horrible decisions he made back then. You gave me some background to put them all in context.

[flying Elvis]

Bert lives on an estate near Calhoun and doesn't have to associate with the common folk. I used to work in Calhoun and Bert would send his servants in to town to buy what he needed. He's never seen an illegal except through the window of his limo or from a helicopter.

[kcvl]

Bert Lance, Carter appointed him Director of the Office of Management and Budget. However, allegations of financial irregularities in his management of the Calhoun (Ga.) National Bank and another Georgia bank forced his resignation later in 1977.

Press reports have suggested that Lance was involved in the BCCI scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's friend, sharing his triumphs, helping him borrow money for his peanut warehouse.

who cruised around Washington during Inaugural week in a black Cadillac bearing special license plates with BERT on the front bumper and LANCE on the back