Another Obama "friend" receives 340 million in taxpayer money

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The firm was founded in 2008 by Sara Horowitz, who worked with Obama while he was in the Illinois state senate to launch Demos, a left-wing, New York think tank funded in part by George Soros.Before May 13, 2011, the Demos website described Horowitz and Obama as members of the founding group in 1999 that became "the core of Demos' staff and Board of Trustees."

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

This is why our country is a mess. Terrible mistakes made with our money and it's mostly ignored.

 

[yidnar]

This is why our country is a mess. Terrible mistakes made with our money and it's mostly ignored.

cronyism at it's worst .

 

[tjvh]

This is why our country is a mess. Terrible mistakes made with our money and it's mostly ignored.

Liberals don't care about misappropriations of Tax dollars when it's Democrats doing the misappropriating.

 

[Clementine]

Here we go again. Just like Solyndra and other companies with poor records, Obama will hand them our money and they'll have nothing to show for it and no record of where the money went.

 

[Borillar]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

 

[tooAlive]

And people still say Obama is the "smallest government spender?"

Hilarious.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

 

[Borillar]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

Yeah, it's relevant when a company somehow connected to a dem gets 340 million, but it isn't relevant when a company formerly run by the sitting VP gets huge no-bid contracts worth multiple billions. No conflict of interest there, nothing to see, move along...

 

[asaratis]

President Obama's Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures


The 2009 stimulus set aside $80 billion to subsidize politically preferred energy projects. Since that time, 1,900 investigations have been opened to look into stimulus waste, fraud, and abuse (although not all are linked to the green-energy funds), and nearly 600 convictions have been made. Of that $80 billion in clean energy loans, grants, and tax credits, at least 10 percent has gone to companies that have since either gone bankrupt or are circling the drain.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

Yeah, it's relevant when a company somehow connected to a dem gets 340 million, but it isn't relevant when a company formerly run by the sitting VP gets huge no-bid contracts worth multiple billions. No conflict of interest there, nothing to see, move along...

Plenty of conflict. But what the **** does that have to do with this?????

Do you always let bad people off the hook simply because some other bad person did the same thing?

Sad

 

[depotoo]

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

Yeah, it's relevant when a company somehow connected to a dem gets 340 million, but it isn't relevant when a company formerly run by the sitting VP gets huge no-bid contracts worth multiple billions. No conflict of interest there, nothing to see, move along...

what you fail to have checked is whether there were other companies that would do what Halliburton does. As a matter of fact, when Clinton's DOD hired them? Guess what? No bid. Just for the reason I stated.

 

[tinydancer]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Soros has made a real killing off of his shares. No Democrat should complain. Soros donates to them and liberal causes.

 

[tinydancer]

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

Yeah, it's relevant when a company somehow connected to a dem gets 340 million, but it isn't relevant when a company formerly run by the sitting VP gets huge no-bid contracts worth multiple billions. No conflict of interest there, nothing to see, move along...

May I politely suggest you get some vaseline to make this easier on yourself?

No conflict of interest. Whatsoever.

Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton
September 30, 2004


Contrary to this ad's message, Cheney doesn't gain financially from the contracts given to the company he once headed.


Summary
A Kerry ad implies Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton and is profiting from the company's contracts in Iraq. The fact is, Cheney doesn't gain a penny from Halliburton's contracts, and almost certainly won't lose even if Halliburton goes bankrupt.

The ad claims Cheney got $2 million from Halliburton "as vice president," which is false. Actually, nearly $1.6 million of that was paid before Cheney took office. More importantly, all of it was earned before he was a candidate, when he was the company's chief executive.



Cheney and his wife Lynne have assigned any future profits from their stock options in Halliburton and several other companies to charity.

And we're not just taking the Cheney's word for this -- we asked for a copy of the legal agreement they signed, which we post here publicly for the first time.

The "Gift Trust Agreement" the Cheney's signed two days before he took office turns over power of attorney to a trust administrator to sell the options at some future time and to give the after-tax profits to three charities.

The agreement specifies that 40% will go to the University of Wyoming (Cheney's home state), 40% will go to George Washington University's medical faculty to be used for tax-exempt charitable purposes, and 20% will go to Capital Partners for Education, a charity that provides financial aid for low-income students in Washington, DC to attend private and religious schools.

The agreement states that it is "irrevocable and may not be terminated, waived or amended," so the Cheney's can't take back their options later.

The options owned by the Cheney's have been valued at nearly $8 million, his attorney says. Such valuations are rough estimates only -- the actual value will depend on what happens to stock prices in the future, which of course can't be known beforehand.

But it is clear that giving up rights to the future profits constitutes a significant financial sacrifice, and a sizable donation to the chosen charities.

More at link:

FactCheck.org: Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Conflict or not is was dirty dealing. Let's accept that or we have no authority to ***** about what Obama does. Sadly when Obama does something he shouldn't the left ALWAYS points at some righty that did it prior to him. Accountability be damned.

 

[gallantwarrior]

The Virginian: Insurer with NY's 'worst' record of complaints gets $340M Obamacare loan

Seriously? One of the companies with THE WORST RECORDS gets paid thanks to connections to Obama.

Where the **** is the oversight?

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Didn't make it right then, and it certainly doesn't excuse it now. Why don't you address current abuses and move forward to try to change them, instead of constantly harping about the past, which we cannot change.

 

[Ernie S.]

Probably the same place it was when Halliburton got those no-bid contracts worth billions when Bush/Cheney were in charge.

Diversion and irrelevance noted.

Yeah, it's relevant when a company somehow connected to a dem gets 340 million, but it isn't relevant when a company formerly run by the sitting VP gets huge no-bid contracts worth multiple billions. No conflict of interest there, nothing to see, move along...

When there's no other company with the ability to provide the service, there's really no point sending contracts out to bid, is there?

 

[tinydancer]

There's no conflict of interest with Cheney. I've put up links that prove there was no conflict of interest over and over and over. If there were, let's be honest.

Obama's DOJ would have Cheney in prison right now.

On the other hand, Soros has made a killing off his shares in Haliburton and many Democrats and liberal organizations have benefited from wealth derived from Haliburton stocks.

And that's legal, but I'm sick and tired of weenie libs still trying to say Cheney had a conflict of interest when he didn't.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, liberal and Dem donors have benefited enormously from loans and grants from Obama's administration.

Blatantly. Evidence everywhere.

Isn't there one Republican pit bull out there willing to take the time to investigate all of these?

 

[Desperado]

This is why our country is a mess. Terrible mistakes made with our money and it's mostly ignored.

cronyism at it's worst .

At one time they used to at least try to hide the fact, Today, they don't care who knows about it. Simply because they know nothing will be done about it.