Is it all about the money?

Question

Do you find it interesting that Ex-Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, sold 12 million dollars in shares from Enron just days before the bankruptcy?

Do you find it interesting that Halliburton is the primary contractor to the US in Iraq, and has extreme ties to Dick Cheney?

Is it odd that Bush made over 100 thousand dollars in insider trading, by selling Harken stock (4Xs more that what Martha made), in 1989, and didn't even get a slap on the wrist? (It might have something to do with the fact that the head of the SEC was Bush Sr's best friend and Bush Sr was still president).

Is it odd that we trust these people to manage our tax dollars, and yet they can't even manage their own...Sort of like Bush JR running the Texas Rangers to the ground and trading Sammy Sousa?

Is it really a surprise that our country is over 8 trillion dollars in debt?

Answer 1

It is about the money, or like some people like to say "If you want to find out where the problems really are, follow the rich white guy"
BTW
When Clinton took office the debt stood at 5.3 trillion running a deficit of 300 billion a year
When Dubyah took office the debt was 4.6 trillion with a surplus that was paying off the debt and the economy was good
Now the debt is OVER 8 trillion and we are running 300billion a year plus war costs deficit and the economy is bad, regardless of the way the administration wants to paint it!
(We all know the unemployment numbers have been played with by this administration so much that they dont amount to anything)
Bankruptcies are at an all time high, even after legislation to slow down bankruptcy

AND THE ONLY ONES RESPONSIBLE HAVE AN ELEPHANT FOR A PARTY EMBLEM

Answer 2

Ahh yes, Enron - a prime example of greed and power taken to the extreme where money is more important than anything else.

Chairman "Kenny-boy" Ley was struck down with a heart attack before he could start his 45 year prison sentence. CEO Jefferey Skilling had no such luck and got 20 years minimum.

However, another of the accomplices George Dubya Bush has so far evaded conviction, and has used his power to commit yet more crimes, including the "supreme international crime encompassing all of the evil that follows".

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/1458256
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_crime

Yes, it is all about the money, but also the power, and enhancing that power which is used to make more money.

The national debt is indeed an indication of the extent Bush has gone to, to enrich himself and his buddies.

Hopefully one day all the criminals will be brought to justice.

Answer 3

RI, It's not surprising at all if you're paying attention! The republican party, which all of those you mentioned have ties to, is absolutely all about the money!!! Our whole society is greedy these days. Nobody does anything for the right reasons anymore. For example, here we are, fighting a war in the middle east that nobody there asked us to fight. The only reason we are there is the powers that be here stand to lose tons of cash if things go south in that region. While in Ethiopia there is ethnic cleansing going that we have been BEGGED to help stop and the republican controlled congress has voted,not once but three times, not to get involved. Why? They don't stand to make ant money by doing the 'Right' thing. It's time to start voting the right people into office. Voter apathy is how these greedy warmongers stay in power. Vote your heart and put people into office who share your beliefs and we can change the world. Nice to hear from someone else who 'gets it'. Don't stop questioning authority!

Answer 4

Yes. (and the oil). Did you see this story on MSNBC today?

WASHINGTON - The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

The Bush administration didn’t reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall. The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

In a federal appeals court filing three weeks ago, the administration’s lawyers used the memo in a legal argument aimed at overturning the judge’s ruling.

Everyone in this administration are connected, back to Bush I and the CIA and the Reagan administration. (Gates was CIA for 27 years and involved in Iran-Contra. It sounds so much like a crazy conspriracy theory, people ignore it. Found a photo of Rumsfield shaking hands with Saddam in the Reagan administration. What a mess we have. By the time we have access to information, people are too young to remember, too partisan to believe it, too old to care-

The deficit is at a dangerous level and our creditors are at the largest foreign level ever-now over 50% of our US Treasuries owned by foreign entities-China is our main foreign creditor. Why don't the financial pundits sound the alarms? because everyone thinks short term, for their own good(keep their job, stay on TV), not for the good of the country.

Answer 5

I think it is now. It seems to be more about the money with people who have plenty of it than for people who don't. Odd, huh?

And actually, we had a surplus when Bush and his crew took over. That surplus was roughly the size our debt is now.

Our previous wars (WW1 and WW2) actually pulled us out of debt and that is what most wars do. They create jobs. The problem starts when they are only creating jobs for one company. And that company just happens to be one the powers-that-be are heavily invested in.

Answer 6

Well let us look at this in perspective. When Bush took over the debt was somewhere around 5.6 trillion. We have fought 2 wars, had a major terrorist attack, numerous hurricanes and other weather realted disasters. Granted Congress has over spent money. Now under Clintons presidency the debt rose almost 1.6 trillion with no wars, a few terrorist attacks and hurricanes as well. He had a more conservative Congress, than I will say they were under Bush.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, YES ... it is all about the money/capitalism/selfishness/having more than "others"

We are a sad race.

Answer 8

What is suprising is that people would vote for BUSH again if they could!! Are people ignorant or just naive??

Answer 9

money makes the world go round.

even corrupt people make the world go round.

you, me, dupree, we all make the world go round because we use money. money money money.

Answer 10

Yes its all about the money.