Posted on 01/02/2009 7:47:32 PM PST by Ron Jeremy
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is one of the largest private equity investment firms in the United States. The firm is based in New York City, and run by 48-year-old financier Steve Feinberg. Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle has been a prominent Cerberus spokesperson and runs one of its international units.
NO other president??? Hmmm... the massive social programs of the early part of the 20th century like the WPA don’t count? Those were a page directly out of the Communist play book.
“Count the days until Jan 20th.”
I think you left off the year...2013. The day our new Republican President assumes the office.
War on Terror, tax cuts, judicial nominations.
Given the circumstances of the last eight years, I’ll take it.
Someone's found Granny's jar of mushroom moonshine, methinks.
Me to UAW: Drop Dead.
I will never again purchase a vehicle manufactured in a UAW plant.
Do a Google search of “Cerberus Capital firearms”. You will see they own Remington and Marlin and investing in others. Thank you....!
I didn't say Dan Quayle “runs” Cerberus. I said he and others run Cerberus. As Director of International Operations, I would say he's probably a lot more involved in running the company than just some guy that “runs one of their international units” who also occasionally serves as a “Spokesman”.
I'm merely making the point that when any administration gives/loans billions of dollars to organizations that, at least on the surface, it appears to have many close ties to, it opens them up for all sorts of questions: Legitimate questions from taxpayers that are footing the bill. In politics, it doesn't have to be dirty, it just has to look dirty. If it was Clinton or Obama, this forum would be all over them.
The (very large) company I work for spends a lot of time and money ensuring that we avoid any hint or appearance of conflicts of interest with its shareholders' money. I just wish the government (all branches, and both parties) did the same with ours.
I wasn’t trying to argue with the core of what you posted. Just giving clarity to what might be easy to misunderstand from your post.
Oh - and Cerberus also owns Remington Arms...
Thanks for the ping.
Taxes were not postponed, they were cut. There’s a thing called economic growth: tax cuts stimulate that. You need to ditch the mentality that government is owed money—”postponed taxes” my rear end.
Harriet Miers is not currently a member of any court. Samuel Alito is.
My take is that the "elites" saw a chance at looting the taxpayer fantastically, unaccountably, and all under the guise of rescuing us and staving off economic Armageddon.
At least in Iceland, the jig is up, if the people get it and organize, they will replace their pols with extreme prejudice. Not a bad idea.
John Snow was George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary, not George H. W. Bush’s.....
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