Posted on 09/30/2016 10:56:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Jeb Bush is denying a report that claimed he's voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Bush says he hasn't made a decision and suggested he may not cast a ballot at all.
'If everybody didn't vote, that would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn't it?' he said, according to CNN, after he was asked what would happen if other voters followed his lead.
The Republican politician's father George H.W. Bush had his plans to cross party lines at vote for Hillary Clinton revealed by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
Bush said at a Thursday event in Massachusetts at a venue named after Townsend's uncle, John F. Kennedy, that he thought her behavior was 'a little inappropriate' and trashed her for taking advantage of his father.
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Drop. Dead.
Jeb, have some guacamole and shut up.
Good point! I guess HE didn’t get that exact same message he is trying to make here- no one voted for HIM in the primaries should send the bushies a message.
He blew it for that whole dynasty.
His mom didn’t want him to run because she knew her sons’ limitations. The same way any parent knows their children.
I have twin daughters- one is studying to be an engineer, the other a musician. I would never switch them in those roles because I know they could not do it.
Barbara Bush knows Jeb is a dumbass.
Jen could have ended his career without looking like a dunce.
Free Republic has it’s share of globalist Free Trader Establishment posters.
Jeb is a Globalist piece of shit, and a treasonous one at that. The anti-American bitch-boi. I’d love to slap his teeth loose.
GEORGE, JEB AND LULA
Derry Brownfield
March 2, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Last March I discussed with my listeners that President Bush was in Brazil and the motive of his visit was to form some sort of a partnership with that country concerning the “biofuels” industry. Apparently we now have a US/Brazilian Biofuels Pact referred to as the Bush LULA Pact. The President of Brazil is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (for the rest of this article I will refer to him as Lula). I’ve not been able to get a copy of the PACT that was signed, if one does exist, however, on March 9, 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brazil Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, signed a memorandum pledging closer cooperation on researching production of energy from alternative sources. The accord also promotes alternative fuels in the region and develops industry-wide standards and codes that could lay the groundwork for a global biofuels market.
Bush and Lula said they were committed to reaching a successful result in a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations. Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs said, “The world knowing that the United States and Brazil are prepared to work together carries a lot of weight in the Americas.” (Bush has made eight trips to Latin America since he became president.)
Brother Jeb Bush became involved in Brazil prior to leaving his Florida governor’s office. While discussing the ethanol industry about a joint partnership with Brazil, he co-founded the Inter-American Ethanol Commission to promote regional production. Note that Jeb co-founded the Commission. The other co-chairs include Roberto Rodrigues, President of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of Brazil and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Agribusiness refers to the Multinational Agricultural corporations. Cevasa Ethanol Distillery in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the largest producer of sugarcane in Brazil. Cargill recently purchased 63 percent of its shares, giving Cargill majority control of the corporation. While Bush was in Brazil thousands of members of an international social movement made up of rural workers held massive, non-violent occupations of multinational agribusiness corporations throughout Brazil. Nine hundred women occupied the Cevasa (Cargill) ethanol distillery. Organizers of these protests claimed the actions were to protest the model of economic growth via industrialized agriculture for export. That while Brazil’s agro-export boom may boost Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product, at the same time it is creating poverty for the rural poor due to land concentration, environmental destruction, and unemployment and labor exploitation.
For every 100 hectares (247 acres) planted to sugarcane for ethanol production, only one job is generated, while on a family farm of this size 35 jobs are generated. In Brazil, agribusiness is controlled by a handful of multinational corporations that are usurping more and more Brazilian territory and expelling more rural poor to the already swollen urban centers. The organizers stated that the large scale, industrialized production for export to the Global North (meaning the US) is entirely controlled by multinational agribusiness corporations. Bishop Tomas Balduino said, “The pact between Brazil and the United States for the promotion of ethanol is sinister. It’s just going to promote death, marginalization, poverty and the destruction of the environment because it defends the interests of large multinationals.”
According to Joao Pedro Stedile, “The Lula government is stepping up its land occupations, including the seizure of lands that could be used for ethanol production. The Lula government is supporting the mode of agricultural production known as agribusiness that allies the landowners with the transnational corporations.”
The social movement supporters want Brazilian ethanol production in the hands of small farmers as part of a diversified agricultural system in which local food production for Brazilians is prioritized, assuring land, livelihoods and jobs for the rural poor. Brazil should focus on producing ethanol for its large internal market, not to sustain US consumption. The accord indicates that Lula is cooperating with Bush and agribusiness in order to ensure the industry remains controlled by large capital interests, while the Brazilian rural poor sink deeper into poverty. Bishop Balduino stated, “Today there is no more agrarian reform, there is agribusiness. Make no mistake; this accord will only benefit the multinationals and the elite.”
We live in a global world that lives by the Golden Rule. Agribusiness has the gold, so Agribusiness makes the rules, not only in the United States and Brazil but around the world. The Multinational Corporations have a choke hold on all natural resources. The more hi-tech farming has become, the greater the need for capital and the Multinationals have the capital. These institutions with unlimited capital have convinced their governments that high-priced machinery along with complex equipment is better for a nation than having more people working. These entrenched forces, for their own power and profit, intend to keep agriculture under their control.
© 2008 Derry Brownfield - All Rights Reserved
“If everybody didn’t vote, that would be a pretty powerful political statement, wouldn’t it?”
Half of the voting population does not vote anyway. What kind of powerful statement did Washington hear from that?
None.
The only “statement” that Washington or the politicos will hear from that is, “Hey, I’m an idiot.” And, “Keep taking advantage of me because I’m never going to do anything about it.”
W has only spoke out on a few issues since retiring from office. Not once has he criticized ANYTHING Obama has done. If he wants to be silent, fine. Just don’t speak out when it is about trivial things and ignore all the abuses of the administration.
Yeb won’t commit to keep his pledge to support the nominee.
Bush Sr. said he will vote for Clinton!
The Bushes just keep proving over and over that they are just another part of the problem.
I agree with Jeb. Everyone that did not vote for him made a statement that Jeb remembers.
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/s&l/
http://www.inthe80s.com/sandl.shtml
F and L scandals with Neil Bush...
That would just increase the power of those who did vote, even if by a minuscule amount
Jeb seems to be laboring under the delusion that anybody cares what he thinks.
Please clap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2
Prescott Bush ties with Nazis
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm
Prescott bush ties with China
He did not hold this opinion during his brothers and dad’s campaigns, nor his own.
Isn’t it great that Jebbie is NOT the 2016 nominee?
Even Ted Cruz has seen the light and endorsed Trump and has bee supporting Trump with the dedication and vigor that only a turned traitor can muster.
What’s a Jeb Bush?
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