Posted on 09/20/2003 1:52:33 PM PDT by Theyknow
My neighbor put some crap in my childs mind which I need to correct. Any suggestions as to where to start?
Yes.
First, keep the child away from the neighbor as he/she might have a perversion.
Tell your child that the Bushes obtained their wealth from a different source than Lyndon Bird and Lady Bird did. Those Birds stole their loot and probably planned the Kennedy assassination.
Jimmie and Rozalind Carter never had much money until he retired in disgrace from the presidency.
The Presidents Clinton salted away a mint in numbered offshore accounts while Billy Goat earned about 18,000 per year as governor of Arkancide. They are now, however, on a path that will make them richer than Midas (and I don't mean the muffler king.)
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The $606,000 was also a gift. From an earlier topic here:
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Carlyle Group, the powerful investment house with close links to the Bush family, is facing acute embarrassment after the emergence of sardonic remarks the company founder made about the president.
In a talk to investors, David Rubenstein said George W Bush did little but tell dirty jokes while on the board of a company owned by Carlyle, and that he wouldn't have appeared in the top 25m people he would have suggested for president of the US.
Carlyle employs the first President Bush and a host of other luminaries including John Major and former US defence secretary Frank Carlucci. It has been the target of conspiracy theorists for its high-level political connections and its work as a defence contractor.
Mr Rubenstein said Mr Bush was hired to be a non-executive director of Caterair, the world's largest airline food business that Wall Street dubbed Craterair, in the early 1990s.
"Somebody came to me and said: 'Look there is a guy who would like to be on the board. He's kind of down on his luck a bit. Needs a job could you put him on the board? Pay him a salary and he'll be a good board member and be a loyal vote for the management and so forth,'" he said in a speech to a Los Angeles pension fund. Of Mr Bush's performance, he added: "He came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I said to him, after about three years: 'You know, I'm not sure this is really for you because I don't think you're adding that much value. You don't know that much about the company.'"
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This was at least the second board of directors of large corporations Bush was installed in on the same basis. George Jr. showed little talent and no initiative. Daddy buddies and the self-protective social stratum kept feeding him lucrative jobs and money until they finally found him something so certain and easy that he couldn't fail with it. ...down on his luck. One of these feeds provided him the $606,000 through stock options.
Had I been Bush, I would have been embarrassed to show my face in public. Was it legal> Yes. But there's more to a life of substance than legality. This is one among numerous reasons I have absolutely no use for the Bush.
George Bush is still being supported by people making excuses for him here which would never be acceptable if he weren't George Bush. He exists on a type of charity and always has. He's a hot house plant and it shows. Talking about his ever been in successful business is a joke.
You meant $86 mil, of course. I should have said 'essentially no $$$', since his contro was far less than 1% of the purchase price. But it was big buckskis to him - he had to borrow it from a bank in Midland. It's certainly not uncommon in LPs for the GP to have a disproportionate share of earnings, but getting an extra 10% for what was essentially a foregone conclusion is an unusually mighty fine deal.
I never suggested that any of the deals were illegal, deport, nor do I think you're suggesting that anything not illegal is OK.
- Illegal? Probably not. Even the fact that ~$1 mil of Dubya's share came from refusing to pay the court-ordered settlement for land condemnations isn't illegal.
- Approved by voters? Yes, but by a decidedly uninformed electorate. None of the glossy brochures or ads ever mentioned that the City was going to give TBA, including the land, to the owners after 12 years.
- SOP? Sure, unfortunately. These kinds of deals are common, as are Arlinton mayors who become rich after dealing w/ the Rangers.
- Smarmy? Guess it depends on what side of the 'give a coupla million dollars and public land to RWG as corporate welfare' fence you fall on.
His medical residency, aportion of which was served with Planned Parenthood, is also being kept very low key...he supposedly doesn't want to discuss that as well. He may actually be our first abortionist major party cadidate. Senator Heinz, a Republican, left much of his wealth to his wife who married another of the Democrat front runners. Politics as a vocation is a money game. Always has been and always will be.
Enron, Bush and the Houston Astros?
Originally published on January 17, 2002, the article began,When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron.
For the record, George W. Bush owned the Texas Rangers, not the Houston Astros. Guess what political party was gung ho behind Houston's new stadium and which party opposed its construction (keep the Astrodome). Ohhhh that Ken Lay, he's gotta be Bush's boy.
Terry McAullife, King Rat of the DNC, got $18million on a $100,000 in a company that tanked. The DUped never seem to be concerned about this.
And lest you think that this only hits visitors, this affected everyone in Houston who had to rent a car (and every car was rented) after Allison flooded Houston in 2001.
Ken Lay was a mover and shaker on getting the downtown stadium built and it was the downtown Democrat cronies who lined their pockets with the downtown redevelopment.
Every city is rebuilding their parks at the insistance of Major League Baseball.
There is a whole lot of corruption going on in the civic subsidizing of private enterprise. There is more to gripe about than George W. Bush's involvement in the Texas Rangers. As others have said, there is little that he did that is different than other owners would have done, nothing illegal about it, and some cities have soaked the public for far more.
I don't assume I know more than other people.
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