[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The man is very intelligent, regardless of whether you like him or not. > And it is nice to write him off as being owned by big business if it suites > your case... especially if you don't know much about business. There's no > way to convince you otherwise so I won't bother, except to say this: Do > you not think that a man of his position, as a businessman, that he is > accutely in tune to the needs of business? Of course he has interest in > business. He is a business-owner. Beyond that, our paychecks are almost > all signed by businesses. It makes sense to keep them rolling. What proof > do you have that he is "owned" by big-business?
>Snip I think you have George Walker Bush jr. confused with someone else. Jr. grew up with his feet under daddy's dinner table. He got into Stanford because daddy was a rich important man not because of his grades. He graduated with a C average only because daddy was the director of the CIA. To keep himself out of the war in Nam he joined the Texas Air National Guard. This is the same draft dodging president who now proposes to send thousand of US troops to die in Iraq to avenge his daddy's honor. As for his businessman's success, he was a failure at everything he did until some of Bush Sr.'s cronies took him into a scheme to buy a major league ball team. Using daddy's reputation and influence and the partner's money he got the City of San Antonio.s government to float a $300 million bond issue to build a ballpark that the investors reaped the rewards from. The taxpayers of that city are still paying off that bond. So much for the Republican idea of privatization and keeping government's hand out of the people's pocket. After all, there isn't room in there for both government and his influential friends' hands. The next chapter in the life of George the Brilliant was to use daddy's influence and his friends money to buy the governor ship of Texas at a time when the biggest problem facing state governments was how to spend the enormous revenues that were rolling into the state coffers. He did have two major accomplishments though. He set a record for the number of death warrants signed (no doubt due to his good Christian upbringing) and he managed to get legislation passed that shielded a friend of his who was underfire for the handling of funds in the University of Texas endowment fund. Jr. and his partners later sold the ball team to this same gentleman. Jr's share based on his original $600,000 investment should have been $1.2 million, instead, he walked away with over 14 million. Either the partners liked the way Jr. parted his hair or he pimped the office of governor and president to them for $12 million. He also pimped the presidency to the likes of Enron and M$. But, I guess you're right. You have to be some sort brilliant to sell you honor for that kind of dough. Too many people sell it for just a paycheck. Lee _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
