Speaking of the Bush Family
Right here, right now: The difference between guts and gall.
Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.
The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said.
Holy hell on a rampage – the guy who got them wounded is charging them $100,000 to help them. That’s $100,000 in blood money.
His parents live in Houston. He couldn’t have come for free?
How much money is enough money for the Bushes?
Did he also channel his brother, and tell the wounded veterans that they “needed to work more hours”?
Let’s reinstate the draft, but only for the children of pro-war politicians
1Start the war first,then conscript or shanghai wingnut politicians and their kids as front line troops. Make sure they are under equipped so the otus’ buddies can gouge the taxpayers for every damn cent they can steal.
2I would like to say I’m surprised by this. I just can’t. Truly disgusting. Truly, truly disgusting.
3Absolutely unconscionable!
4Charging fees and expenses??!!!! That war criminal, his war criminal family and the war criminals in his administration should be subjected to the RICO Act and stripped of all their war profits to pay for their wars and the services needed to support the veterans.
5Ditto JAKvirginia and PKM. This truly makes me sick to my stomach, I doubt anything that family does can really surprise me anymore. I have to go throw up my diet Coke now.
6Do you suppose Roger Ailes and his Foxettes will give this the same coverage to this story they gave to Bill Clinton’s speaking fees? Ignore the question mark; the question is only rhetorical.
7Too bad they weren’t flying the Resident (he doesn’t get to be called President; he was appointed, not elected) out of the country, where he’d be arrested as the war criminal he is.
8Simply despicable.
9Don’t blame W. Any greedhead will take the $$$$ if it’s offered.
Blame the people running the outfit for abusing the trust of the donors. Then again, too many “non-profit” groups are vehicles to enrich the con-men running them.
What percentage of the outfit’s donations actually go to the intended purpose. How much goes to overhead, administration and fund-raising?
Blame Republicans for knee-capping the IRS which allows these pseudo-charities to thrive.
10The Bush Family didn’t get rich by spending THEIR money.
And if George the Younger gave a damn about anyone in the military besides himself he wouldn’t have gone AWOL.
This entire family is so ethically challenged; I don’t know how any intelligent person can even consider voting for one of them.
11For anyone who doubted that Chimpy is a full-fledged psychopath–able to dissociate emotionally from his terrible actions and their consequences–this story removes all doubt.
Psychop
12And on an ironic note, The Donald actually got this one right…..
You mean George Bush sends our soldiers into combat, they are severely wounded, and then he wants $120,000 to make a boring speech to them?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2015
13what Roberto said……
14The real question should be “Why are our wounded warriors reduces to begging?”
15Well, that answers the question, what would GWB have done if he didn’t get nudged into politics?
He’d own a glass company, and at night would drive around town throwing rocks through windows.
16Here’s what I just sent to http://www.helpingahero.org/
IMO, their decisions not made in haste are almost as egregious as bush’s.
“When I read about your paying bush $100k +, I became nauseous about you people, not bush as what he is doing is in character.
17I am a disabled vet, retired, with a son in the process of being medically retired with his souvenirs while with the 1st Cav in Iraq.
The old saw, ‘you are with whom you hang’. I can not trust you.”
Charity Navigator has an advisory warning on Helping a Hero and lists a number of issues with the organization.
18http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=14973#.VZ7a9ctRF9A
Shame, shame, shame on you Bushs, and every other greedy slime ball out there!
19I guess I need someone to explain just who was responsible for inviting the idiot to speak in the first place? Seems to me that person has some major explaining to do Either that, or GWB has one hell of an agent and or speaker’s bureau working for him.
20The article says the charity figures it raises an extra million dollars when Dubya is there. That still doesn’t make it right that he’s taking money from them, or from a donor who could have given that much to the charity outright to help wounded vets instead of to line Dubya’s ermine pockets.
And $20,000 for a private jet? From where, the Maldives? How far away from Houston does that boy live?
Some of us grew up to have a sense of shame when we did something disgusting. Not Dubya. (Challenging his father to a fistfight when Dubya was drunk was another bad sign.)
21All these folk, the bushes, the kochs, trump, rmoney, have more money than several family generations will be able to spend, yet the continue to accumulate. Why? I suspect it is because all they have in their opulent little lives is “accumulation”. In this sense I equate power with accumulation. They haven’t a goal or a dream or a wanting for something that is selfless, that is larger than themselves.
22What’s the overhead for this “charity”?
23Beyond sickening.
It’s an insult to the wounded to have him around.
24I suggest wounded warriors wound HIM. THE WHOLE FAMILY IS WORTHLESS SCUM.
25The man who failed upwards just does not know when and where and how to stop. His actual war veteran daddy cannot like this money grubbing. But, then, that’s just me sayin’ . . .
26What’s more messed up? That Bush would take the money or that the veterans would even want him there, considering that he is the reason that a great number of them are wounded?
27Maggie: Where did you think the little Bushies learned all their money grubbing? Daddy Bush is wholly owned by the Saudis through a little company called the Carlisle Group. They have money grubbing honed down to a feather edge.
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maggie says:
July 9, 2015 at 4:16 pm
The man who failed upwards just does not know when and where and how to stop. His actual war veteran daddy cannot like this money grubbing. But, then, that’s just me sayin”
maggie, there has been a story that has surfaced from time to time about the action in which GHWB was shot down in the Pacific.
29The story goes that pilot Bush (youngest Navy aviator at the time) bailed out of his plane when he could have flown it further and splashed it in a controlled manner. Thereby sentencing one of his crewman in the aft compartment to death (having no controls and unable to exit the aircraft).
I have seen the story several times, don’t know it’s veracity, but given the Bush’s general moral and ethical level I’m inclined to believe it.
The Carlisle Group? Of Alexandria, Virginia fame?
30This story is getting so much publicity that anyone with a sense of shame or who cared about how he was viewed would give the money back. Let’s wait and see…..
31JJ: How much money is enough money for the Bushes?
Umm… all of it?
Perhaps the worst part is, the audience didn’t get the privilege of throwing tomatoes and shoes. Seems to me they should at least have gotten to throw their crutches, wheelchairs, and prosthetics at him.
The money is definitely moving the wrong way here. Yet another reason to tax the rich.
32“This story is getting so much publicity that anyone with a sense of shame or who cared about how he was viewed would give the money back.”
assumes facts not in evidence. I have yet to see this thing you call “shame” on display in any republican, it appears to be genetic.
33The whole thing stinks! From the big shots who thought having Mr. Mission Accomplished as a speaker to the waste of vital assets better spent on actual heroes, to the taking of that money from the vets just stinks. Give that money back, Bush.
34Wonder if he joked about those missing WMDs he and Barney couldn’t find in the WH?
35The family Bush have always been war profiteers, even grandaddy Prestcott Bush aided Hitler in WW2.
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