http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoAuk76fT8
Interview with poster child of illegal immigration
Obama's Illegal Aunt: "You Have The Obligation to Make Me a Citizen"
Beautiful stuff DTB. So now u are worried about 700 a month but u didn't care about those billion dollar war contracts going to blackwater and Haliburton. I'm sure the Drudges of the world will keep this one up cause pinheads like urself fall for this race shit over and over again. Read on DTB and see where real money goes. I tend to worry about Billions being stolen and not 8,400 a year.
Neil Bush was a member of the board of directors of Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan during the 1980s' larger Savings and Loan crisis. As his father, George H.W. Bush, was Vice President of the United States, his role in Silverado's failure was a focal point of publicity. According to a piece in Salon, Silverado's collapse cost taxpayers $1.3 billion.[2]
DTB that is our 1.3 billion u asshole. Our money. BIg fuking money u dumb hick. Read on. I could go on and on.
To fund Ignite!,
Bush raised $23 million from U.S. investors, including his parents, as well as businessmen from Taiwan, Japan, Kuwait, the British Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Documented investors include Russian billionaire expatriate Boris Berezovsky, Berezovsky's partner Badri Patarkatsishvili, Kuwaiti company head Mohammed Al Saddah, and Chinese computer executive Winston Wong.
In 2002, Neil Bush commended his brother, George, for his efforts on education as President, but he questioned the emphasis on constant testing to keep federal aid coming to public schools: ?I share the concerns of many that if our system is driven around assessments, pencil-and-paper tests that test a kid's ability to memorize stuff, I would say that reliance threatens to institutionalize bad teaching practices.?[6]
As of October 2006, over 13 U.S. school districts (out of over 14,000 school districts nation-wide[7])
have used federal funds made available through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in order to buy Ignite's products at $3,800 apiece.[8]
A December 2003 Style section article in the Washington Post reported that Bush's salary from Ignite! was $180,000 per year.[3]
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Published on Thursday, February 24, 2005 by the Independent/UK
President's Uncle Bucky Emerges as a Big Winner from Iraq War
by Rupert Cornwell
The Iraq war has produced many winners and many losers.
And one small but significant winner is a certain William "Bucky" Bush, brother of one president and uncle to the current occupant of the White House. The good fortune of Uncle Bucky, as he is known within America's ruling family, has been to hold a seat on the board of Engineered Support Systems Incorporated (ESSI), a St Louis-based company that has flourished mightily as a military contractor to the Pentagon.
Last month, ESSI shares hit a record $60.39 (�31.64) apiece � more or less exactly the moment the presidential uncle chose to sell 8,438 options worth around $450,000, according to obligatory reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and disclosed by the Los Angeles Times yesterday.
William Bush denies that his presence on the board has had anything to do with the company's success in boosting expected revenues to an estimated $1bn in 2005, in good part reflecting no-bid contracts relating to the war. Noting that he joined it in 2000, before his nephew was elected, "Bucky" Bush says he has not lobbied anyone in Washington to send contracts ESSI's way.
"I don't make any calls to the 202 [Washington, DC] area code," he told the LA Times. :mj07: :mj07:
In fact Mr Bush, aged 66 and 14 years the junior of his brother, the first president George Bush, has long been a prominent member of the St Louis business community and was state chairman in Missouri for the 2004 Bush/Cheney re-election campaign.
"Having a Bush doesn't hurt," Dan Kreher, a senior ESSI executive, says. The company has supplied a variety of equipment to the US military effort in Iraq, including a $49m contract to refurbish military trailers and an $18m deal to provide communications services to the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran post-Saddam Iraq until June last year. In 2003, ESSI was awarded contracts for equipment to help search for, and protect US soldiers from, Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, which turned out to have been a figment of the imagination of the Bush administration.
But some of that government business is now under scrutiny. The Pentagon has announced that $158m worth of contracts won by ESSI in 2002, including work on a new air cargo loading device called Tunner, is being reviewed by its inspector general for suspected "anomalies". ESSI responds that the inquiry is a routine examination of work awarded on a sole-source basis. It would have "no effect" on the company, Gerald Potthoff, its president, told stock analysts this week.
Mr Bush says he cashed in the options because they were about to expire, and not because he was unhappy with the company. He told the LA Times that he would have preferred the company was not involved in Iraq, "but unfortunately we live in a troubled world".
The episode is another illustration of how the Iraq conflict,
costing the US $5bn a month, is proving a bonanza for some. A prime example is Halliburton, the oil services group once chaired by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, whose Iraq operations have been plagued by alleged contract overcharging and other issues. Some Democrats complain that the Bushes and their associates have been given a virtual free pass on business affairs � unlike President Bill Clinton, who was hounded for years over his involvement in Whitewater, a modest
Arkansas real estate venture, in which he and his wife Hillary actually lost money :mj07: :mj07:
