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Kid_A Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:47 PM
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How much is the Bush family worth?
I know they're all rich motherfuckers, but exactly how rich are those motherfuckers?
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:50 PM
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1. Their REAL money has been hidden in offshore banks for DECADES.
You'll only see some over 10 million here and there pop up in their US accounts, and that's about it.
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Rockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:51 PM
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2. GHWB's $$$ in blind trusts?
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 04:38 PM
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10. It had to be since Granpa Prescott got punished for financing the Nazi
Edited on Wed Sep-22-04 04:38 PM by catzies
war machine.

And Poppy's buddy William Stamps Farish IV - ex-ambassador to the UK - is the one who manages the blind trusts now. His dad (WSF III) started them for Grandpa Prescott.

Evidently he (WSF III) took his own life because he couldn't live with the shame of the Nazi stigma on the family.

http://www.fact-index.com/w/wi/william_stamps_farish_iv.html

http://www.fact-index.com/w/wi/william_stamps_farish_ii.html

http://farish-mims.150m.com/fb.htm
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 04:53 PM
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11. I thought William Farish III managed all the Bush Family
finances in blind trusts? Don't know if that's still the case, but found some info on it.

http://www.farish-mims.150m.com/fb.htm

"When George Bush was elected vice president in 1980, Texas mystery man
William Stamps Farish III took over management of all of George Bush's
personal wealth in a "blind trust." Known as one of the richest men in
Texas, Will Farish keeps his business affairs under the most intense
secrecy. Only the source of his immense wealth is known, not its
employment. Note #3
Will Farish has long been Bush's closest friend and confidante.
President Bush can count on Farish not to betray the violent secrets
surrounding the Bush family money. For Farish's own family fortune
was made in the same Hitler project, in a nightmarish partnership with
George Bush's father....."(more on Nazi $$, and the Bush-Farish connection)
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AverageJoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:52 PM
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3. They're all worthless n/t
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Dying Eagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:52 PM
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4. Not worth a pinch of shit
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:53 PM
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5. I'm Halfway Through the KELLEY Book
Edited on Wed Sep-22-04 01:54 PM by UTUSN
She says Poppy's income stayed level at $7 mil once he entered public office, and didn't climb again until CLINTON booted him out, and he began collecting $80,000 per speech. After that she says he got up to $20 mil-------but considering all we hear about their dirty dealings, this seems WAY low to me.
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:54 PM
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6. I'd like to say...
...about a bucket of manure, but the price of the bucket would really inflate the figure.

(My speechwirter told me to say that...not shore what he meant)
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 03:08 PM
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8. heh heh luv the name....
So, George....what's the REAL poop on how much you're worth? Oh: sorry. I meant scoop. As in shovel a scoop of horse manure.

You wouldn't be holding out on us, wouldya?

100Mill, 200 Mill, 300 Mill, a Billion? How much?
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 04:11 PM
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9. Aw, shooooooooooot...
..."How much are we worth?"...Honestly, pardner!

We're jest simple folk like all o' y'all...we git jest as fascinated by them thar eeeelectronic scanfiguration machines at the supermarket when we buy our milk...like everyone else, we put our pants on one arm at a time...and, jest like you, we remove our powdered wigs when we take our leave of the drawing room fer the evening and retire to the boudoirello.

Yeppers, the ol' Bush clan has always been about generation after generation o' self-made men who picked themselves up by the scruff o' their own bootstrappings--and you cain't put a price on that, pardner...

Translation: Between two and three hundred mil, depending on how reliant Amerka remains on Saudi oil and how fluid the trade in human slaves is going.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 01:54 PM
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7. I wouldn't give you a nickel for the lot n/t
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 04:55 PM
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12. Oh, about 4,100 american and western deaths and 30,000 Iraqi deaths.
Thats all that matters.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-22-04 04:57 PM
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13. Do we even have a ballpark figure here?
Because if they have THAT much power, and only a paltry tens of millions, then it ABSOLUTELY proves that the Bushes are complete, f**king morons.
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