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In reply to the discussion: Ladies and gentlemen, what you are seeing in the Senate right now is McConnell [View all]they turned around and made him the Chairman of the board of the Carlyle? group.......a private group of 602 uber wealthy going around vacuuming up massive amounts of money from taxpayers and corporations. The amount they made, off just the Iraq war was sinful........They intercepted a bunch of money from the taxpayers, who were picking up the bills from defense suppliers, in addition to wide spread industries across the board that also profited handsomely from the war..........
Interesting story: Kids were coming around peddling ridiculously over priced items for their schools because the schools money had been cut so severely by the Feds....like a single sheet of wrapping paper, or 10 cents worth of Popcorn for Five Bucks. I would just give the 5 bucks to the kid, and not order anything. I asked one of the kids about how this fund raising worked. He said it was great, the school got one dollar for every purchase. I almost laughed out loud. 10 cents for the popcorn, a dollar for the school and almost four bucks in profit going to the company. I looked at his propaganda sheet from the Corporation doing this......and was floored.
It was wholly owned subsidiary of the Carlyle group............
HW was Chairman of the board for ten years after leaving office.......