Posted on 12/04/2018 5:44:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A man who loved his country so much, he attempted to set up the United Nations as a power that could overrule the constitution.
No thanks, I’m glad the craphead is dead, and I pray his New World order cohorts (whether rich or poor) should soon follow.
He was a modern day Haman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/opinion/george-hw-bush-maureen-dowd.html
Maureen Dowd had quite the “affair” with Poppy Bush. I like the way she writes. She talks about how in an earlier life she might have been a maid to HW. (Her grandmother, great-grandmother etc. were servants for the elites).
Maureen’s older brothers worked as pages in the Senate. Sorting mail, the one quipped “Prescott Bush - with a name like that you know that guy isn’t driving a bus.”
Is that a picture of the failed Bay of Pigs operation it is that the Iran Contras?
What a stupid article header. Bush Senior was emphatically not born into exceptional wealth. At his death in the early 1970’s, Prescott Bush was worth $3.5m. Even then, that wasn’t exceptional wealth. It was what a successful upper-middle class professional might bequeath to his heirs, but it wasn’t exceptional. When Bush Senior was born, Prescott Bush was 29, over 4 decades before he accumulated the $3.5m he left behind.
An excerpt from a biography of the Bushes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/books/chapters/1st-chapter-bush-tragedy.html
[The cheapness of the Bush men isn’t just an endearing comic trait. It reflects the reality that there has never been any large pool of capital on the Bush side of the family. Though he poor-mouthed preposterously, Prescott actually accumulated fairly little, and didn’t leave much behind.]
Cripes. Like the article imparts, the Walker’s Point property in Maine sky rocketed in value and GHWB was paid mega-millions for the books he wrote.
The old man Bush’s grandfather worked for the Rockefellers. That says a lot about the Bushes.
W was paid around $30,000,000 in speaking fees from 2009-2015. The members of the Deep State never go away.
On another note post I wrote HW Bush was CIA director under JFK. It was Ford.
Starting when and ending when?
[Are you familiar with the truth concerning Prescott Bush being a primary funding source of the NAZI war machine? ....Obviously, not!
Have you heard any of those rumors concerning post-WWII NAZI gold stolen from the Jews ending up is guess what family’s coffers?]
The average person has no idea how expensive WWII was. It cost 50% of US production every single year for 4 years. 14m Americans served in that war out of a population of 140m. That’s almost 1 out of every 2 fighting-age men. Relative to today’s economy, that would be the equivalent of $42T. That’s not even counting the death benefits for 400K dead GI’s and the massive toll placed on millions of servicemen who came back with physical or mental disabilities.
Just how big is $42T relative to our net worth (assets - liabilities) today? It’s about 1/3 of the total number of $123T. Note that the majority of those assets is real estate, whereas war generally requires things like gold and other portable items.
The Germans struggled to match this because we had twice the population, and an economy as productive as theirs. So they sold everything they could lay their hands upon in order to feed the inferno they had started in Europe. There was no Nazi surplus for Prescott Bush to profit off. And the bank Brown Brothers operated for a German industrialist was seized by the Federal government without compensation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen
That sort of thing is a whole lot easier when one can tap into the connections and money his family had. I'm much more interested in the lives of people who made it big from humble beginnings.
Yeh became cia director when his boss was found floating in the Potomac... two of his bosses were shot if you count Reagan... three if you count kennedy
[Like the article imparts, the Walker’s Point property in Maine sky rocketed in value and GHWB was paid mega-millions for the books he wrote.]
ignore him. in his last post, he was talking about bending spoons with his mind.
George HW Bush founded his own oil company and became a millionaire in his own right by 40. No doubt he had easy access to investment capital.
George HW Bush’s grandfather, George Herbert Walker, was a wealthy banker and investment manager, who helped organize the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, as well as rebuilding Madison Square Garden and the Belmont Race Track. He was in business with W. Averell Harriman, and arranged for him to take control of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. He also sat on the board of 11 large corporations, and Golf’s Walker Cup is named after him.
His son (George HW Bush’s uncle), was the founder and first owner of the NY Mets. The extended family is full of wealthy and influential patricians. George HW Bush’s great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Walker was a wealthy British slave trader. They have been among the wealthy business elite for many generations.
Thank you. Out of all the negativity, it is good to hear someone respect him for what he did in his lifetime.
[That sort of thing is a whole lot easier when one can tap into the connections and money his family had.]
You’re right - it’d be almost impossible to ‘buy’ President Trump.
http://time.com/money/4041300/donald-trump-has-more-money-than-every-u-s-president-combined/
“In fact, a President Trump would not only be the richest president in U.S. history; he’d be richer than all previous U.S. president combined. (Their collective net worth adds up to only around $2.6 billon.)”
They’re the elite and they all play the game. Ghw Bush tweeted a picture of him with his “friend” Bill Clinton. How could anyone be friends with a rapist?
He admitted he voted for Hillary. So he voted “blue” in his adopted “red” state. Doesn’t sound like he respected a majority of his fellow Texans. And I guarantee he didn’t support Cruz in the Senate primary.
I want to see the Iowa Hawk headline now
“Spoiled White Dude Passes.”
Thanks for the info. You have a perspective on that world that I do not have.
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