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  • From: Eric Wolfram <ewolfram AT infinex.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] citizen apathy
  • Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:08:17 -0700

At 03:21 PM 10/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:04:56AM -0700, Eric Wolfram wrote:
>> Please indulge the thought for a moment. Follow the cash. George the
>> II, as I like to call him, is from one of the richest families on the
>> globe. They made their money by selling us the oil we use.
>
>Hm. That's funny - I always thought the Bush family was relatively poor
>and nouveau riche. Prescott Bush, George W.'s grandfather, was just some

This IS funny. In what world is 3rd generation wealth nouveau? In which
society is a family that is worth over 300 million dollars "relatively poor"?

>schmuck from Ohio (though, admittedly, a well-connected schmuck with
>roots dating back to the early US settlers[1]) who got into the Senate
>via Connecticut after the mid-term death of the previous seat holder.
>Sure, he was a banker, and sure, he sat on the board of directors of
>several large firms, but he was no oil man.
>
>George H. W. Bush didn't even enter the oil business until after WW II,
>in the mid-fifties. According to Grolier, he made $2M between 1954 and
>1966.
>
> http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/bios/41pbush.html

Not only is that URL miss quoted here, the source itself is carefully
chosen to support an absurdly faulty conclusion that the Bush family is
"relatively poor". Do the world a favor, read this Article from Mother
Jones, and adjust that paradigm:

http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html

As a bonus, that Motherjoens article should clear up any confusion about
how connected the Bush family is with the oil industry.

<snip some good research proving that oil is essential to the American way
of life>

I think everyone agrees, that oil is essential to our American way of life.
Everything around us, was driven here with a truck, car or plane. Our AC,
our heating and our industry; it's all dependent on oil.

>Following the money entails doing some basic research, no?

Is it easy to hide behind research? Is it easy to tell lies with research?
Is this thread a joke? Is this some sort of research competition? Or are
you really trying to get me to believe that The Bush family is poor and
American life doesn't depend on oil. LOL.

I might well be wrong, but it seams to me that we vote with our dollars.
Regardless of which bozo was in office over the past 60 years, they each
had different degrees of interest in securing our oil from the Middle East,
but their actions were always motivated by money, industry, and by
preserving our way of life. And who should blame them or us? I'm not saying
that we are wrong to secure our way of life. What I am saying is that
almost every forceful action we have taken in that region has been to
secure or protect our way of life.

So regardless if you actually bothered to vote in an election during the
past 60 years, I say that we have each voted economically over and over
each time we spend our money. Power and money are closely related. Once
again, the mirror is upon the enemy and it is US.

Eric (please don't shoot the messenger) Wolfram


http://wolfram.org/




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