You stupid Freepers need to remember that it's not corruption when we do it
Posted on 12/10/2009 3:58:48 AM PST by Zakeet
According to its October 2009 quarterly finance report, the Hillary Clinton for President campaign has one outstanding debt: $995,500 owed to Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, LLC, which is run by Democratic pollster Mark Penn.
According to The Hill today, the same firm received a $2.8 million stimulus subcontract "for media services and outreach to help prepare 'unready' households for the DTV transition" -- a contract that Republican Senators contend was "pure waste."
Thanks to Mark Penn, a handful of people avoided the inconvenience of losing a few days' television service. And thanks to the stimulus, Penn is not being inconvenienced so much by the now-defunct Clinton campaign's outstanding debts to him.
The Hill's story states that Clinton's campaign paid off its debts to Penn in July, but the relevant FEC document says that only about one-third of a $1.5 million debt was repaid during the third quarter of this year, and that $995,500 in debt to Penn's firm remained as of September 30.
After paying off more than $20 million in debt (most of it owed to herself) Clinton's now-defunct campaign still has nearly $2 million on hand, in part thanks to efforts by then-Senator Obama to have his donors fill her coffers last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
You stupid Freepers need to remember that it's not corruption when we do it
The FCC has a budget. They could have gotten word out about the digital change in any number of ways. It could not have been necessary to hire Penn’s outfit just to buy media time.
Stimulus package funds were never intended to feather every bed. OPPs - maybe they were.
We should just let our elective representatives write checks to themselves. It would be more cost effective that way.
Take a look at this case. She owes Mark Penn $950,000, so she writes him a stimulus check for $2.8 million. She winds up spending three dollars of our money to steal one dollar. It would be far more efficient if she could just write a million dollar check from the US Treasury to “Cash”, because the taxpayers would save 67 cents on the dollar.
Add to that the fact that her million-dollar-payoff was, no doubt, part of the reason she supported Porculus in the first place. Her 1/100th share of that comes up to $7.5 Billion pissed down a hole. Now, let’s be generous and assume that Hillary has a little something on the ball, and has managed to line up another 19 scams for a million dollars each, now you’re talking about spending $7,500,000,000 to steal $20,000,000. That means that 99.3 cents of every dollar from her share is Porculous is wasted so she can make two-thirds of one cent.
That’s not efficient at all.
If Secretary Geithner really wanted to do something productive, he should just grab his checkbook and head to Capitol Hill. Once there, he should ask each Senator how much it is going to cost to get them to stop stealing money, and cut them a Treasury check for that much on the spot. I figure the going rate would be about $100,000,000 per Senator, which means the whole program would only cost $10 Billion. That’s a rounding error compared to the Federal Budget these days.
****Stimulus package funds were never intended to feather every bed. OPPs - maybe they were.***
I think you just put your finger on how the DEMs will finance the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.
They have hidden resources in every bill they are writing and forcing thru Congress. Acorn is but one example of their shell game(s).
Did she ever pay back the Government for the use of our plane during her Senate race?
I would bet she didnt.
EXACTLY—so how can conservatives win? It will have to be a massive grassroots effort to overcome this big fraud. Pray that amnesty doesn’t succeed. Any Repubbie worth his/her salt will see through all this.
Paying off her debts with someone else’s money (ours!). Just like a lib.
You’ve done the math!
Funny, though, in another land, in another time, this story would be “big”—in the new world of blatant , in your face corruption, where so much is thrown at us every day, and in such “confusing” ways, it will register nary a ripple.
As historian David Pryce-Jones said, “Corruption rules the world”. And it is as perfected here as anywhere else.
They get away with it, interestingly, only because with that much of (OUR) money behind every dissemination of funds, the corruption is on such a vast scale it overwhelms us with VOLUME. It’s another form of “volume buying”, like Wal-Mart.
You’ve done the math!
Funny, though, in another land, in another time, this story would be “big”—in the new world of blatant , in your face corruption, where so much is thrown at us every day, and in such “confusing” ways, it will register nary a ripple.
As historian David Pryce-Jones said, “Corruption rules the world”. And it is as perfected here as anywhere else.
They get away with it, interestingly, only because with that much of (OUR) money behind every dissemination of funds, the corruption is on such a vast scale it overwhelms us with VOLUME. It’s another form of “volume buying”, like Wal-Mart.
Doesn’t anyone have the brass ones to go after these sleazy bast**ds?????? The average person can’t. Vote them out!
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