Posted on 07/30/2022 9:00:41 AM PDT by Angelino97
Since 2013, Rubenstein, 72, who co-founded the private equity giant the Carlyle Group, has given millions to entities that repair and upgrade historical monuments and landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument as well as Monticello and Montpelier, the homes of US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But some say the restoration at the presidential homes has recast the presidents as sinister racists while downplaying their accomplishments...
But a quick dive into Rubenstein’s backstory shows he’s not so pure himself. He made his initial fortune in the 1980s by exploiting a tax loophole in Alaska allowing him to profit from deals made with Natives — and the Rubenstein family has been expanding their influence in the 49th state ever since.
In 2014, Rubenstein’s then-wife helped elect a governor in Alaska who in turn opened up the state’s $80 billion Permanent Fund, a fraction of which is managed by the Carlyle Group, to special interests. Rubenstein’s daughter was appointed to the board of that fund last month.
“Here’s a guy who has taken advantage of other people to climb to the top while he expects perfection from the Founding Fathers,” Dan Fagan, a talk show host and journalist who covered Alaska for 25 years, told The Post. “Because of the Rubenstein family and how [his ex-wife] influenced the change in the state’s sovereign fund, the average Alaskan family has lost tens of thousands of dollars.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Woke my ass. These people are fast asleep in a dystopian nightmare.
Horse pucky.
“loophole” = a feature/bug that I didn’t think of but someone else did.
Oh, boo hoo.
So, your position is that it is wrong to strike a deal with someone and also make a profit? Umm, that makes you a piece of commie trash. Bugger off.
He made a bundle, and without any evidence you immediately paint him out as an exploiter. Sounds like jealousy.
As to giving later for POTENTIALLY earlier sins, welcome to the world. It is the ones who never, ever give back that are evil. See all Democrats.
Wealthy socialists/Marxists are the worst kind of socialists/Marxixts, and there are many examples including Soros and Kerry just to name a couple.
Jimmy Carter hired Rubenstein to be his deputy domestic policy advisor under Stuart Eisenstadt. Rubenstein would later team up with Frank Carlucci and G H Bush to create the globalist US-Last Carlyle Group. His bio is like a horror movie.
Behind every great fortune is a great crime.
He is the one funding Madison’s Montpelier and Jefferson’s Monticello’s woke transitioning to be abour slavery and how bad the founders were.
Dick Cheney’s alma mater...
Yup, uniparty at its finest. Enriching themselves and the parties along the way.
All excellent examples of why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed along with the Senior Executive Service being eliminated.
“Baizuo”... do you know what that means? Are you one noob?
In retrospect, in the past I may have been rather unfair to Pinochet.
He is the one funding Madison’s Montpelier and Jefferson’s Monticello’s ***woke transitioning to be about slavery and how bad the founders were***.
*** emphasis mine. This is the point of the article. Not that he made a profit, but now he’s part of the woke mob rewriting our history.
Excellent response...
Rubinstein is also a major contributor to the Kennedy Center in DC. Whatever he wants, he gets. Talked them into building 3 new buildings with outdoor venues, parks, bridges. It opened in fall 2019. No one goes to the new buildings really. Covid hit and they lost their shirts. Will likely go bankrupt. Then, between Rubenstein, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrette and Nancy Pelosi who ate on the board, their Covid policies and their totally woke performances (all black casts, transgender, etc.) no one is interested. Sad.
Sounds like you read too much Ayn Rand.
Most of our woke globalist oligarchs made their fortunes via government connections and playing the system. They're not heroic John Galts operating in a (non-existent) True Free Market.
Hmmm...
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