We hear Dick Cheney coming out every so often, complaining we aren't safe. Getting all the right wing nuts in an uproar. Then he goes on to say how we have to keep the terrorists out of our prisons and in prisons already provided.
Here is a look at a few things.
There is a man named George C.Zoley, this man is founder and CEO of a private prison company named the GEO group. This prison company has had controversial problems with the beating and mistreatment of prisoners in its facilities. There were incidents in Texas and one known case in Chester County prison owned by this company. Does the mistreatment and abuse of prisoners sound familiar, it should, this company is one that manages a prison in which we hold those that are called terrorists. This prison Guantanamo. This Mr. Zoley was one of the Bush pioneers for the Bush 2004 campaign.
This company "lobbies" our Senators and Representatives. Many of whom seem to be Republican. Since the Republicans are so against closing Guantanamo Bay.
Dick Cheney, a former CEO, of Halliburton. A company that built Guantanamo's prison.
Cheney, as far back as 2008, was, and may still be, using an investment firm The Vanguard Group. Now Cheney had investments in a prison fund. One of the biggest names in that fund, The GEO Group. According to Fox News, on November 18 2008, Mr. Cheney was indicted, for organized criminal activity and profiting from the prison system, and also along with the company The Geo Group, were indicted for manslaughter, and murder.
On January 19TH, there was a report of terrorist prisons that were killed, hanged, at Guantanamo.
On January 7TH,2010, I was watching a show. This was a news commentary show. On this show they reminded us what Osama Bin Laden said, That they are willing to bankrupt America by sending their henchmen all around the world, and the United States military would follow them where ever they go. All for the likes of black gold. This statement was made in 2004, the re-election year of George W. Bush.
The reason I bring this up, is because Cheney has an approximate $100 million invested in some kind of bond or fund, that if our economy tanks, he stands to walk away with a few hundred million more. This could potentially push him over the billion dollar mark.
Looking at today's economy, we have stalled out in the 10,000 point range. Numerous amounts of people have lost jobs. Those that still have their jobs are doing what they can to keep them. To this very day our military is still in Iraq and Afghanistan, recently more troops were summonsed to Afghanistan. There is an uprising in Yemen, with terrorism. Guess where our military would be heading next, should the terrorist activity escalate. We the tax payers bail out the banking industry, when George W. Bush was President. Henry Paulson was the Treasury Secretary for the Bush administration, and he previously was a CEO for one of the first companies we bailed out Goldman Sachs. This is where the start of the bail out came from.
We are still borrowing money from China, that doesn't seem that we will ever be able to repay. We have high health care costs.
The problems started under the Bush administration, and currently being carried out by the Obama administration.
Under the Bush administration they ran up our nations debt by $4 trillion, by 2006. Obama as President has used a little more than $1 trillion, but this was to fix, the devastation left behind from the Bush administration.
There are some ideas to help curb our nations debt, some Democrats in the House have come up with a bill, to legalize on line gambling. There are Republicans who have jumped on this bill. Most Republicans do not want to pass this bill, since it was passed to be an illegal act in 2006. There is also a religious influence. Should our government open it eyes, this can be reversed. Legalizing and taxing marijuana, is another idea that would help curb our national debt.
Seeing how thing have been run, the mess that was left. We will probably not recover from the last 8 years, for another 5 years. At the current rate of collapse. Al Qaeda will have successfully, bankrupted America, as we know it. We will all be in trouble. Meanwhile those who hedged their bets, for the failure of our country, will be the only ones who will not be hurting, financially or socially.
The way the failure was set up, and the reasons we see and hear Cheney scream about terrorists, and or safety is because he stands to make great profits. It is all at our expense.
He has basically said to us "What are we going to do about it?"
