It has been reported lately how the SBA involvement and golden child of Wall Street is Jeb's legacy especially with the pensions in the State of Florida. Don't you ever wonder why Mama Bush didn't want her sweet baby to run? There are skeletons in Jebby's closet. Big skeletons with money dripping from it's bones. Green back is covering the soul and directs his path. http://www.ibtimes.com/...
It was early 2008, and Florida lawmakers were under pressure to explain how the state’s pension officials had come to buy massive quantities of toxic assets from Lehman Brothers. After the investments defaulted, politicians wanted to know whether Jeb Bush -- who joined the Wall Street firm in 2007 as a consultant just months after leaving the governor’s office -- had been involved in persuading his former government colleagues to invest state money in Lehman.Bush has denied any involvement in the transactions, which might eventually cost Florida taxpayers as much as $1 billion.
We are looking at a record as bad as Neal's during the S&L Savings and Loan. Different Bush, same crooked branches. People do not look fondly on W's lies into war and Katrina but Jeb has a way of taking other people's money and giving it to himself. “Congratulations on the new career!” Lombardi wrote in the email, which was obtained by International Business Times through an open-records request. “Of course, you understand we can never speak to each other unless I get the word from Jeb! (Ha, ha!)”Lombardi’s suggestion -- that Bush, as a Lehman consultant, wielded influence over Florida pension decisions -- looks like a joke, but the email may rekindle questions about the former governor’s role at the doomed Wall Street bank.
There were so many who lost pension money and Florida is a retirement state where pensions are important. I ran across where some of this concern was diaried in 2008 but that was before people felt the REAL impact of the Wall Street robbery and destruction of the middle class. Bush’s gubernatorial administration steered Florida pension money to Lehman before Bush got his $1.3 million-a-year job at the firm. Emails show Bush as governor periodically recommended specific pension investment decisions, and the fund was run by one of his allies. Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who is running against Bush in the Republican primary, has called Bush’s Lehman post “a no-show job,” claiming that Lehman rewarded him for directing public employees’ retirement money to the firmThis is what explains the low energy of Jeb Bush. My question is why, other than Rachel is bringing this up? The MSM looks as though they are helping people forget Bush was a perpetual player in the downfall of the economic downturn... He was part of the economic problem so he thought we would all forget? You can bet Mama Bush didn't forget this was a political hot potato.
For any unknowing people who think Jeb is the best of the GOP lot, I am a Floridian here to remind the people of just one thing.... The man is a Bush... Quoting Jesse Jackson, " Stay out the Bushes". People most of the time don't know they are stupid, but few will forget who robbed them. What was it W said, " Fool me once...then word salad...followed by, Can't get fooled again". Then again, Scott went in again so maybe stupid and getting robbed doesn't matter to a conservative as long as they have a promised tax break on a job they don't have.