Good morning, Frank and Dave! > Good evening again, Dave! > > Dave Laird wrote to Frank Reichert.... > > I previously wrote: > > > Now, how many politicians do you really trust, not to mention the > > > bureaucrats running the programme, with your retirement investment > > > funds? I would suggest that the ones giving the most lucrative > > > campaign contributions might very well be on the government's overall > > > 'approved' list of securities, while upstart young corporations that > > > might show more promise, would be left out. Talk about a government > > > subsidy to the rich and famous! > > To which, you replied: > > Not just a subsidy to the rich and famous, but very *specific* rich and > > famous friends and contributors of whatever President is in office at > any > > given time, starting with the Bush family. Come to think of it, wasn't > > Enron a heavy contributor to the Bush re-election campaign?
Enron contributed to both the Clinton campaign and the Bush campaign. However, Ken Lay only got sleep-overs in the Lincoln bedroom from Clinton and it was only the Clinton Commerce Dept. that put the arm on India to agree to let Enron build a billion-dollar white elephant of a dam and hydro-electric system that India couldn't afford the electricity from. (Part of the reason Enron went belly-up.) (And note that it is the Bush Justice Dept. that is prosecuting all the excesses from the late 1990s.) > Probably was, and as I remember it back then, most likely so. I > believe, as I recall, Dick Chaney was in charge at the time, although > I might be wrong. You are apparently confusing Enron with Halliburton. > Isn't all of this really 'very special'. I have to wonder why > ordinary 'voters' don't pick up on a lot of this. Honestly. Why do > ordinary Americans seem to be left in a fog of sorts when they walk > into the voting booths, and can't pick up on what ought to be the > obvious? Would you be referring to the "fact" you stated above which is "obviously" wrong? > I don't know honestly, although I have my pet theories. Well, since they seem to be so lacking in facts, you probably ought to call them "hypotheses." Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
