Bush family lost millions of dollars...

[cynatnite]

President Bush's financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million, according to disclosure forms released yesterday.

Bush and his wife, Laura, were worth at least $9 million and as much as $24 million at the start of his term. The Bushes could still be worth as much as $20 million now, according to the financial documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics, which requires assets to be reported only within broad ranges.

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President Bush's biggest asset is a 1,600-acre family ranch near Crawford, Tex., which is listed as being worth between $1 million and $5 million. Most of the Bush family holdings are in real estate and a blind trust.

Last year, Bush reported assets of a minimum of $7.5 million.

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The annual financial disclosure forms filed with the ethics office report assets and income figures in wide categories, making it impossible to determine exact figures on wealth. Tax forms released last month, however, showed 2007 income of $924,000 for the Bushes and $3 million for the Cheneys.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503534.html

[baldguy]

1. Oh, my!

Do you think he'll have to get a real job after Jan?

[shain from kane]

2. Must have been an expensive wedding.

[underpants]

3. Wow he reallly actually sucks that BAD at everything

that is just sad

but to be fair

it couldn't happen to a more suitable asshole

[magellan]

4. Oh dear me! I smell a

...:nopity: party in the making!

[liberal N proud]

5. Between $1 million and $5 million?

That is a big range.

Real easy to claim a loss when you need to Suddenly the ranch isn't worth the 5 million. Unless you are talking about buying it.

[lame54]

6. They lose millions of dollars between the couch cushions...

I wonder how fat their Cayman accounts are

[Ian David]

7. How big is that sinkhole in Texas now? n/t

[Contrary1]

8. That would be excluding offshore accounts, I presume. n/t

[Riddler]

9. As long as the entire disgusting POS clan has a pot to piss in and a loaf of bread..

it's too damn much, and way more than they deserve.

[aquart]

10. Now there's something I can agree with.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. !!!

:thumbsup:

[Wizard777]

11. Cheney made 36 Million on his Halliburton Stocks. Why is this man not in jail?

Oh yeah that's right. He's no longer teh CEO of halliburton. He's now the SEC's boss and can prohibit them from investigating his way inside Insider Trading.

[global1]

13. How Much Is His Land Holdings In Paraguay Worth?.......nt

[stillcool]

14. "Making it Impossible to determine exact figures of wealth"...

what a bullshit story.

[Cleita]

15. I think you might find that the family fortune has been

slip, slidding away into Swiss and Cayman Island bank accounts. It's the modus operandi of all right wing, totalitarian, dictators of the past century. Why should the BFEE be any different? Remember when Islmelda Marcos was all boo hooey over her lost fortune when Marcos was toppled and sent into exile? It seems that they managed quite nicely after the initial boot and regained their lifestyle with money that materialized from, oh well we really don't know do we?

[Canuckistanian]

16. He can't even plunder successfully

Or maybe his "payoff" is coming AFTER his term in office, just to make it look like he wasn't a crook.

Dick Cheney on the other hand.....

[whistler162]

17. So will President Bush have a friend like....

President Grant had in Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain) who will pay him to write his autobiography instead of letting him starve?

[fascisthunter]

18. Awwwww... Shucks. I'm Sure the Family Legacy will Save Him

afterall, the family seemed to do well after helping Hitler.

[lovuian]

19. they have stolen BILLIONS

they haven't reported the Billions they have stolen and placed in bank accounts all over the world

[ellie]

20. Awww maybe we can

have a bake sale! I am really trying to keep my anger in and not unleash a torrent of obscenities. I really hate these vile creatures.

[graywarrior]

21. What about the money from the oil companies and the Iraq war? Separate account?