Corruption and Ineptness in Congress

Caught in the act? Example of corrupt self-serving Government elected officials who betray the public trust? Where are the checks and balances? This should be the top news story on every news program in the country this week...~ William Summs

Wes Criddle

May 2 at 3:34pm · Mineola, TX

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The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. All 56 were built, operated, and paid for by tax-paying American citizens. Now enjoy reading the rest: The government has decided it no longer needs these buildings, most of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country.

The sale of these properties will fetch about $19 billion!

A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was given the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI and it belongs to a man named Richard Blum.

Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein! (Most voters and many of the government people who approved the deal have not made the connection between the two because they have different last names).

Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune, estimated at between $950 million and $1.1 BILLION from these transactions!

His company is the sole real estate agent on the sale!

CRI will be making a minimum of 2% and as much as 6% commission on each and every sale. All of the properties that are being sold are all fully paid for. They were purchased with U.S. taxpayers’ dollars.

The U.S.P.S. is allowed free and clear, tax-exempt use. The only cost to keep them open is the cost to actually keep the doors open and the heat and lights on. The United States Postal Service doesn't even have to pay county property taxes on these subject properties. QUESTION? Would you put your house in foreclosure just because you couldn't afford to pay the electric bill?

Well, the folks in Washington have given the Post Office the OK to do it! Worse yet, most of the net proceeds of the sales will go back to the U.S.P.S, an organization that is so poorly managed that they have lost $117 billion dollars in the past 10 years!

No one in the mainstream media is even raising an eyebrow over the conflict of interest and on the possibility of corruption on the sale of billions of dollars worth of public assets.

How does a U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away with organizing and lobbying such a sweet deal? Has our government become so elitist that they have no fear of oversight?

It's no mere coincidence that these two public service crooks have different last names; a feeble attempt at avoiding transparency in these type of transactions.

Pass this info on before it's pulled from the Internet. You can verify it on TruthorFiction and Snopes:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/…/Blum-Post-Office-Sale-06101…

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp

If this doesn't upset you, don't complain about the corruption and the ineptness in D.C.

GREAT TRUTHS

By Terry Orr

(Sharing another email from Nancy – Thanks)

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. ~ John Adams

 

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. ~ Mark Twain

 

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain

 

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~Winston Churchill

 

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ~ George Bernard Shaw

 

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. ~ G. Gordon Liddy

 

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ~James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

 

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.     ~ Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.

 

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~ Frederic Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)

 

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. 

If it keeps moving, regulate it.

And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

~Ronald Reagan (1986)

 

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers

 

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! ~ P. J. O'Rourke

 

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. ~Voltaire (1764)

 

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! ~ Pericles (430 B.C.)

 

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.  ~ Mark Twain (1866)

 

17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. ~ Anonymous

 

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ~ Ronald Reagan

 

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. ~ Winston Churchill

 

20. The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ~ Mark Twain

 

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

 

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. ~ Mark Twain

 

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ~Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

 

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.  ~ Thomas Jefferson

 

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

 

FIVE BEST SENTENCES

 

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

 

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

 

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this?

Neither could I.

FACEBOOK HUMOR

By Terry Orr

Happy April 4, 2014 –

• The first Friday in April,
• Home Opener for the Washington Nationals, and
• Opportunity to share some of the interesting posting from my Facebook page this week. 

Hope you enjoy.

Man and his wife come into the Country Club grille today. She ordered the soup of the day, I brought it out he pipes in with "That looks good. Why didn't you ask if I wanted any soup?" Me: "I'm sorry, I mistook you for a grown up and thought you could make your own decision"

100 Funny Southern sayings (Volume Two) to start off your Weekend!

http://networkedblogs.com/VBgiS

Which one’s are your favorite?

Mr. Obama, maybe folks are mad because you’re a liar

http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/04/02/mr-obama-maybe-folks-are-mad-because-youre-a-liar/

And moving to our financial experts...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/04/vietnams-punishment-for-corrupt-bankers-death/

and finally....