To: AFVetGal
McKinney said, "Former President Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. The Los Angeles Times reports that on a single day last month, Carlyle earned $237 billion selling shares...the army's fifth largest contractor." $237 billion!!?!?!?! That would give it a market value in the neighborhood of ExxonMobil. General Dynamics, the largest defense contractor has a market cap of $20 billion. If this isn't a typo, she either told a whopper on the level of Klintoon's "I didn't have sex with that woman", or she remembered it wrong and she's so stupid she doesn't understand how ridiculous the number is.
16 posted on
05/19/2002 5:42:35 PM PDT by
lasereye
To: lasereye
I wondered the same thing. Also, could it have been 2.37 billion? What about the day before that day? or the day after? Was there a reorganization or a company selloff to account for it? 'Pod.
21 posted on
05/19/2002 5:46:14 PM PDT by
sauropod
To: lasereye
$237 billion!!?!?!?!"Math is hard."
23 posted on
05/19/2002 5:47:06 PM PDT by
dighton
To: lasereye
About 10 minutes of searching on Google reveals the following:
Carlyle Group spun off United Defense Industries in December 2001.
- UDI was an IPO that was in preparation for months, it was not earned on a "single day".
- It was 237 million, not 237 billion.
In other words, Catherine McKinney is an idiot.
40 posted on
05/19/2002 6:03:10 PM PDT by
Huusker
To: lasereye
I vote for the 'stupid' theory...
49 posted on
05/19/2002 6:10:25 PM PDT by
Jen
To: lasereye
If this isn't a typo, she either told a whopper on the level of Klintoon's "I didn't have sex with that woman", or she remembered it wrong and she's so stupid she doesn't understand how ridiculous the number is. Kinda reminds me of Major Owen's rants that 20 million blacks were thrown overboard during the slave trade.
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To: lasereye
she's so stupid she doesn't understand how ridiculous the number is. And your point is? To those of us who live in her district, and suffer watching her treasonous actions and general idiocy, have known the above for nearly a decade.
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