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In reply to the discussion: How the Elite Talk in Code [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)7. So why not post about the Bush crime family and their cronies?
It'd help, you know, inform rather than entertain -- or, as in your current examples, divert.
For those interested in the subject of how to get away with stealing a trillion:
The S & L Bailout:
$32 billion every year for 30 years
excerpted from the book
Take the Rich Off Welfare
by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman
Odonian Press, 1996
EXCERPT...
By the time Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, two-thirds of the nation's S&Ls were losing money and many were broke. If all the problem thrifts had been shut down right then, the government's insurance fund would have covered their debts.
SNIP...
Beebe also had money in Silverado Savings, an S&L partly owned by President Bush's son Neil. Silverado told a prospective borrower he couldn't have $10 million; instead, he should borrow $15 million and buy $5 million in Silverado stock.
Although federal examiners knew Silverado was leaking cash as early as 1985, it wasn't closed down until December 1988, a month after Bush was elected president. Because Silverado kept leaking cash for those three years, it ended up costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
Robert Corson, who helped the CIA smuggle and launder money, bought Kleburg County Savings and Loan and bankrupted it in nine months. Houston Post reporter Pete Brewton found 24 failed S&Ls with ties to the ClA. One of these was Peoples Savings and Loan in Llano, Texas, which loaned $3 million to Ray Corona, a drug smuggler, and $2.3 million to his associate Harold White.
One of Corona's drug-smuggling associates was Frank Castro, a Cuban exile involved in Oliver North's contra resupply network. Herman Beebe's Palmer National Bank was also involved with North; it loaned money to customers who then channeled it to the Swiss bank accounts used to supply the contras.
CONTINUED...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/S%26L_Bailout.html
The magnus opus, IMFO, is Pete Brewton's "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush." Readers are leaders, snooper2. What people who watch tee vee are is manipulated.
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I familiar with all of the shady shit the bush fuckers have done over the years
snooper2
Jan 2014
#4
Did you ever see Poppy Bush's letter on behalf of Silverado Neil to regulator Ashley before?
Octafish
Jan 2014
#19
I can't remember Poppy saying -- let alone doing -- much for anyone, except a son or crony.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#12
The Bush family got away with so many crimes, it caused me to lose most of my respect
Rex
Jan 2014
#13
It's definitely far beyond Neuro Linguistic Programming, isn't it? K&R#50
bobthedrummer
Jan 2014
#21
Earth killing thieving warmongering bullshitlers are still up to no good and forever more as long as
lonestarnot
Jan 2014
#25