Bush's Kid Brother Neil Used Federal Funds to Sell Crappy Education Products

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



Bush's Kid Brother Neil Used Federal Funds to Sell Crappy Education Products

Posted by Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! at 12:00 PM on November 7, 2007.

Howie Klein: Critics in Texas contend that schools are buying Bush's signature product because of political considerations.




This post, written by Howie Klein, originally appeared on Down With Tyranny!


I'm trying to remember which Bush brother was the bank-robber. It was Neil, wasn't it? Let's see... Google... "Bush" plus "Silverado"... Yes indeed. It took me right to a Washington Post story from 2003 entitled The Relatively Charmed Life Of Neil Bush-- Despite Silverado and Voodoo, Fortune Still Smiles on the President's Brother. Oh, I had forgotten he's also a sleazy pervert.


Ah, it's nice to be Neil Bush.

When you're Neil Bush, rich people from all over the world are eager to invest money in your businesses, even though your businesses have a history of crashing and burning in spectacular fashion.

When you're Neil Bush, you'll be sitting in a hotel room in Thailand or Hong Kong, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a knock at the door. You answer it and a comely woman strolls in and has sex with you.


Yep, I forgot all about that messy, messy divorce. Oh, and I forgot about the millions of dollars in bribes the Chinese funneled into the Bush family through Neil. See, and you thought all that poison being shipped into America from China was just Miss McConnell's fault. The Bushes are as compromised as McConnell.

Anyway, like most of us I forgot all about that stuff. But a story in this morning's NY Times is bringing unwanted attention back to the someone almost as black a sheep in the Bush Family as George W. (Well... that's an exaggeration; he only cost the American taxpayers a measly billion dollars from his malfeasance at Silverado Savings and Loan.) After gambling in the commodities markets and losing at everything he's put his hand to-- or at least losing his hapless (or shrewd) investors' money-- he decided to get into the lucrative No Child Left Behind business. Is it any wonder edumacation is all mucked up under the Bush Regime?


The inspector general of the Department of Education has said he will examine whether federal money was inappropriately used by three states to buy educational products from a company owned by Neil Bush, the president's brother.

John P. Higgins Jr., the inspector general, said he would review the matter after a group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, detailed at least $1 million in spending from the No Child Left Behind program by school districts in Texas, Florida and Nevada to buy products made by Mr. Bush's company, Ignite Learning of Austin, Tex...

Members of the group and other critics in Texas contend that school districts are buying Ignite's signature product, the Curriculum on Wheels, because of political considerations. The product, they said, does not meet standards for financing under the No Child Left Behind Act, which allocates federal money to help students raise their achievement levels, particularly in elementary school reading.


Surprised?

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/67245/#more

[AlCzervik]

1. just to add to it here is an article about Bill "Slots Czar" Bennett and $$$ his homeschool

comapny got from Bush.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstory.cfm?ArticleID=5220

[movonne]

2. This is no surpise...and we as a nation should through these bums

in jail...

[MagickMuffin]

3. Don't forget Bar Bush donating money for Katrina victims to benefit her beautiful Baby Boy

this is how the bushies operate. They STEAL from the government at every available opportunity.

Why do you think they LOVE public service??? There is only one answer to that question and that is to ROB the US treasury.

[marmar]

4. Mike Malloy doesn't call them the Bush Crime Family for nothing....

The mob WISHES it operated as smoothly.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Yep, they are truly the robber barons of this country going back generations

What a better way to establish your wealth than to STEAL it from the US treasury. It has worked out very well for them.

And if I'm not mistaken, Neil's little late night call girl was a minor. Which he should have told her to be on her way, instead he had his fun first. :puke:

[tanyev]

6. And then the schools had to pay an annual fee to keep the crappy software.

Montgomery Burns couldn't do any better.

Much of the product’s success in Texas dates from a March 2006 donation by Barbara Bush, who gave eight units to schools attended by large numbers of hurricane evacuees.

Neil Bush followed up with an e-mail message telling the district that “in order for the schools to keep the Cows in subsequent years they will have to pay an annual fee of $1,000,” according to documents obtained by the citizens group.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/washington/07neil.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[MagickMuffin]

7. But, but, but, our childrens are learning

:rofl: Not with the Mad Cow disease that the Mad king Boy George's family is pushing. :rofl:

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. What a scam. Someone should sue his ass, please!

[DCKit]

9. "Silverado" nt

[gatorboy]

10. Perhaps "No Child Left Behind" was thought up just for this very purpose.

Just another reason to funnel millions into Bush bank accounts on my dime.