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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Skywatcher who wrote (214748)1/4/2002 2:16:13 PM
From: greenspirit  Respond to of 769670
 
LOL! Basically a one man website in which his last article was this. Where do you find these wacko's anyway?

What will it be like with George Bush Jr. as president?

It will be a return to the "Bush" form of government -- namely a government of shadowy cliques, secret commissions and de facto star chambers.

The new Bush Administration will probably accelerate the pace of re-arming China to make China the new boogeyman because nobody makes any money unless there's a boogeyman.

The Bush Administration will then use that as an excuse to pump up defense spending, to wit, all defense contractors have given very generously to the Republican Party. Consequently, years later, a new Bush Administration will institute tax cuts for the wealthy and try to eliminate estate taxes which Bush has talked about in the past.

By the end of the first term of a new Bush Administration, all the surplus which is supposed to be used to reduce the national debt and repay the money his father swiped from social security would in fact be absorbed in new spending and tax cuts.

You have to look at the entire Bush Family in this context -- as if the entire family ran a corporation called "Frauds-R-Us."

Each member of the family, George Sr., George Jr., Neil, Jeb, Prescott, Wally, etc., have their own specialty of fraud.

George Jr.'s specialty was insurance and security fraud.

Jeb's specialty was oil and gas fraud.

Neil's specialty was real estate fraud.

Prescott's specialty was banking fraud.

Wally's specialty was securities fraud.

And George Sr.'s specialty?

All of the above.


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People ask me -- what about all the heat regarding the National Heritage deal recently profiled on "60 Minutes"?

It's another fraud. The genesis of the fraud is that a partnership was formed to purchase Heritage Life Insurance for $4 million. This partnership involved all of the Bush Brothers, including, by the way, John Gotti. John Gotti was also a member of the partnership.

How did it happen? On a Friday night, this partnership purchased Heritage Life. They proffered a check for four million dollars. The check was worthless. It was no good.

Over the weekend Heritage turned over the keys to its offices in Boca Raton, Florida, all its files. Everything. Over the weekend this new partnership proceeds to transfer $4 million dollars of Heritage Life's reserve capital into its own accounts to cover the check that it had written to buy it.

It's a true story. Then they proceeded to turn Heritage Life into a fraud center. They perpetuated a variety of fraud, specializing in and concentrating in HUD fraud, They would buy busted out HUD properties for $500,000, then list their value on the Heritage books as $5 million dollars. The other four and a half million dollars would simply go into the partnership's pockets. And they did this repeatedly.

Andrew Cuomo, through his father Mario's influence, was hired on as a consultant to the corporation. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Heritage Life at $50,000 per year.

When Andrew became Director of HUD, Andrew helped cover up Heritage's scams vis-a-vis HUD. Heritage in turn not only buys up HUD property, but it also becomes its own insurer of HUD property. For example, it would claim that the insurance premium on XYZ property was $1 million a year, when in fact the insurance was only $100,000 a year.

Heritage Life insurance Company was part and parcel of Heritage Financial Group, Heritage Credit Group, Heritage Securities Group, Heritage Banking Group. It was much more than just an insurance company. Heritage was a consolidated financial group involving securities, banking, and insurance.

One of the principals of the company was John Gotti. Among the directors was George Sr., George Jr., Jeb, Neil, etc. These were the directors of the holding company which was called Heritage Group International.

Because of the relationship (Gotti's involvement) Richard Brenneke and the National Brokerage Group become involved in selling Heritage policies and securities.

Richard Brenneke was very close to John Gotti and more importantly was very close to Gotti's superior, Paul Castellano. When it came to pass, Brenneke was head of National Brokerage Group which had a primary securities relationship with Blinder Robinson, Meyer Blinder, the old con artist. National Brokerage Group in turn marketed Heritage product, Heritage insurance, Heritage annuities, Heritage securities and Heritage partnerships, etc.

Andrew Cuomo will become another Franklin Pearce, another scapegoat.

The missing $59 billion dollars from HUD coffers is probably a record, but only in terms of public disclosure.


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You know I talked to my shrink today.

I'm practicing my therapy again.

I'm taking blank pieces of paper and putting them through my shredder.

He calls it "relaxation therapy"...


***

People ask me what should they invest in.

I remember in 1985-86, Secord owned the Canon franchise in Washington DC. It supplied paper shredders to the US Government. True story.

I say invest in Canon because with George Bush in office, it will be black ops and illegal covert operations heaven.

It also reminds me of Ollie North who had lapel pins made up. He thought it was a humorous knock-off of the 1950s slogan, "Better Dead than Red," so he freshened it up.

Remember the Motto of the Day...

Better Shred Than Read.



To: Skywatcher who wrote (214748)1/4/2002 2:20:28 PM
From: greenspirit  Respond to of 769670
 
If you're going to read one person website articles. This one is much better.
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Happy New Year, America!
by JohnHuang2
January 1, 2002

America is a nation of boundless optimism.

How else to explain the buoyant mood, the unbridled ebullience and sunny, upbeat visage of a nation only months removed from the blow of September 11?

And what a difference a few months can make in this glorious land Reagan proudly dubbed that Shining City on a Hill, this exhaustible fulcrum of human hope and freedom.

Only a scant fourteen or so weeks ago, a nation froze to a standstill as thousands of her innocents perished in the most ignominious act of barbarism ever unleashed on American soil. The unspeakable horror, the bloodcurdling, grisly gruesomeness, as our innocence was raped that Autumn morning, abruptly roused us from our swoon.

As America reeled in shock, hordes of raging defeatists, predictably, scurried out of the woodworks. The "prophets" of doom were everywhere. America may never recover, blurted the crabby cynics, dourly. The merchants of melancholy swarmed the airwaves with daunting predictions. At home, Americans were told to gird for spiraling depression; abroad, for crushing defeat, military. Afghanistan, they said, was just a wretched reprise of Vietnam.

But the cheerless cynics, defeatists and skeptics, at the end of the day, were full of beans. That's the story of 2001.

Instead of debacle and defeat in Afghanistan, America triumphed decisively, vanquishing the Taliban and crushing al-Qaeda in mere weeks, with minimal casualties on our side. In the region, the name Osama Bin Laden is no longer synonymous with bravery and defiance, but with cowardice and failure.

On the home front, the bespattering America-haters were full of it as well. Rather than convoluting collapse, by year's end, the American economy was staging a dramatic comeback: Stocks had fully recovered; consumer confidence was steadily rebounding; auto and home sales were off the charts -- hardly what the gloomers-and-doomers had warned America to expect.

The unheralded story of 2001 is of American resilience and zing. Fed by boundless optimism, America's uniquely indomitable spirit, her courage and relentless resolve -- even against the most daunting odds -- are among the ingredients which makes this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth. The story of America is not of cynicism and pessimism, but of grittiness, of boldness, of daringness, of triumph -- the triumph of the human spirit over all adversity.

And of faith. Without it, we are nothing.

America is a nation of heroes. Think of the firemen and policemen of New York; think of their courage and heroism. Thousands of lives were saved that day, thanks to the Big Apple's bravest and finest.

That's the story of America, folks.

Happy New Year, America!

My two cents..
"JohnHuang2"
Copyright Enrique N. ©2001