George HW Bush honored for courage with 1990 tax hikes.
George H.W. Bush honored for courage with 1990 tax hikes
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush showed courage in breaking his “read my lips: no new taxes” campaign pledge to broker a 1990 budget compromise that may have cost him re-election two years later, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said on Sunday.
Lauren Bush Lauren (R) accepts the 2014 Profile in Courage Award on behalf of her grandfather, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, from Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts May 4, 2014. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The organization honored the 41st U.S. president with its 2014 Profile in Courage Award, praising the Republican leader’s “decision to put country above party and political prospects” in the deal with congressional Democrats.
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“America’s gain was President Bush’s loss,” Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former president John F. Kennedy and a member of the award committee, said during a ceremony at the library in Boston.
Bush did not attend the event. Granddaughter Lauren Bush Lauren, niece of former president George W. Bush, accepted the award on her grandfather’s behalf.
“Candidly speaking, my grandfather did not want to raise taxes in 1990,” she said. “But in our constitutional system of governance, Congress also gets a say – and more than that, he felt he owed the American people action and results.”
The foundation also honored Paul W. Bridges, a former Georgia mayor, as co-recipient of the award for putting his mayoral career on the line to oppose a 2011 immigration bill aimed at pushing undocumented immigrants out of his state.
Rose (L) and Jack Schlossberg (C), grandchildren of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, pose for a photograph with Lauren Bush Lauren, who accepted the 2014 Profile in Courage Award on behalf of her grandfather, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts May 4, 2014. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
The awards, presented during the mid-term election season, appeared to offer a subtle critique of sitting congressional Republicans, who last fall forced a budget impasse and a 16-day government shutdown to avoid funding President Barack Obama’s healthcare bill.
“We celebrate today courage in a moment of profound change and challenge in a country gripped by partisan gridlock and inaction,” Schlossberg said.
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In September 1990, two years into George H.W. Bush’s first term, the United States was saddled with a $200 billion budget deficit. Months of partisan wrangling over possible tax increases and spending cuts had ended in a stalemate.
Despite the potential political backlash, Bush announced a compromise with congressional Democrats that would cut $500 billion from the deficit in five years, in part by raising “luxury taxes” on items including yachts and pricey cars, among other tax hikes.
“The time for politics and posturing is over,” Bush said in an October 1990 speech. “The time to come together is now.”
The budget passed, but Bush’s concession on a tax increase rankled members of his party and stood at odds with his “no new taxes” campaign promise. He lost re-election to Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992.
Bush thanked the foundation for the award in a statement read by his granddaughter. He joked he had skipped the event due to suspicions that broccoli might be served, a nod to his infamous ban on the vegetable he disliked from Air Force One.
LOL!
George H.W. Bush – No New Taxes
George H.W. Bush New World Order Speech March 6, 1991
George Bush Sr. New World Order Live Speech Sept 11 1991
The Bush Crime Family – Three Generations of Treason
Dark Legacy: George Bush And The Murder Of John Kennedy
George Bush, Skull and Bones, the CIA and Illicit Drug Operations
Bush / Kerry Skull and Bones Avoidance
P.S. – please note the New World Order speech on Sept 11, 1991.
Then think about his son occupying the white house for Sept 11, 2001
(exactly a decade later for the Reichstag Fire of our time)
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The True Story of the Reichstag Fire and the Nazi Rise to Power
When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power
Are you one of those conspiracy theorists?
Those are Bush’s actual words about the no new taxes or “new world order”. Not very debatable or conspiratorial. It’s what the dirtbag said. Here’s a clue – he told a complete lie about the taxes and the complete truth on developing a new world order based on the “rule of law…not the rule of the jungle (freedom).”
If you can’t see that, then there is little hope for you.
The guy was in Skull & Bones, the Bohemian Grove club, and all the other Rockefeller sponsored globalist clubs like the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission. Those organizations are real, and they are the political “clubs” that new power-brokers congregate in. Not really up for debate.
Bush (and his moronic son) did terrible things from his tenure at the CIA to VP to P to Daddy of P. No conspiracy to it. The guy was one of the more nasty politicians that the US public has ever been “put” into such a position of power, and he should be treated as a war criminal, not celebrated.
The Bushes are directly related to the ruling Windsor family in Great Britain.
I’m into “Coincidence Theory”. Are you one of those people that considers real facts and facts that don’t even come close to adding up as good enough, and ready to label any dissenting view a conspiracy?
George H.W. Bush New World Order Speech March 6, 1991………
Dang I posted this one yesterday………… 🙂
On November 25, 2017 at 5:24 am,
OOTB Jerry says:
NWO speech……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byxeOG_pZ1o
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He shouldn’t be honored, but ran out of town. There have been few as sinister as Papa Bush.
Second Woman: George H.W. Bush Groped Me
Dave McKenna – 10/25/17
https://deadspin.com/second-woman-george-h-w-bush-groped-me-1819855977
The Washington Times, June 29, 1989 (Front page story)
Homosexual prositution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush
‘Call Boys’ took midnight tour of White House
http://educate-yourself.org/tg/franklincoverupexcerptwashtimesphoto.shtml
President George H W Bush and the First Iraq War (1991)
excerpted from the book
Lying for Empire – How to Commit War Crimes With A Straight Face
by David Model – Common Courage Press, 2005
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/BushI_Iraq_LFE.html
Bush Family Funded Adolf Hitler
Iraq War.ru 8-26-2003
** Jump to the 31 minute mark in this documentary and watch it to the end and see how you feel about Grandpa, Papa, and Jr Bush.
The Oligarchical Bush Family of Generational Treason
“The Oligarchical Bush Family of Generational Treason from the Nazi SS and Adolf Hitler to Osama bin Laden. The journalist in this video is providing factually true evidence. The oligarchical Bush family of generational treason reaching back to the namesake of the two Bush presidents, George Herbert Walker. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. In the same manner that Prescott Bush traded with the Nazi industrial complex against the United States during WWII, so too did both Bush presidents with the Carlyle Trading Group and Bin Laden family. Unbeknownst to the Saudi Arabian 911 hijackers, was that a number of those same enemy combatants were also psychologically conditioned CIA jackal assets.”
War Crimes Tribunal Finds Bush and Blair Guilty
By Mahi Ramakrishnan
Global Research, February 08, 2016
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-tribunal-finds-bush-and-blair-guilty/5478367
It must run in the family….
United States: Investigate Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture
Inquiry Into 2 Deaths in CIA Custody Insufficient
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/07/11/united-states-investigate-bush-other-top-officials-torture
Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
By Yvonne Ridley | May 12, 2012
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/
Posting an article about “honoring” this Bush family’s “courage” on anything is insulting.
However, the fact that this “courage” was for lying to peoples faces about taxes is almost comical.
Yes, stealing more rather spending less requires courage and is “America’s gain.” Who buys this stuff?
+1
Taxation is theft, and Georgie lied to everyone, and raised taxes anyway.
The Bushes crimes against humanity and crimes against Americans should never be celebrated. It is hilarious how some people that just tote their own party lines can go after the Clinton Crime Syndicate (as they should) but turn a blind eye to the atrocities that happened under the Bush Dynasty.
Bush, JFK, Skull and Bones, Watergate and Oliver Stone
BOHEMIAN GROVE MEMBERS Nixon, Reagan, George Bush, Prince Phillip Exposed
New World Order Quote Compilation
I guess we better stop calling Al……Big OWL………. 🙂
MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. BRICS countries are discussing the possibility of establishing a single gold trade system, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank Sergey Shvetsov said Friday.
More:
http://tass.com/economy/977276
I respect all of you guys and, as you know, I also respect our opinions.
Best to all,
A
Meanwhile (without a warrant) Big Brother is listening:
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas are among scores of police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using the signals constantly emitted by their cellphones.
Civil liberties and privacy groups are increasingly raising objections to the suitcase-sized devices known as StingRays or cell site simulators that can sweep up cellphone data from an entire neighborhood by mimicking cell towers. Police can determine the location of a phone without the user even making a call or sending a text message. Some versions of the technology can even intercept texts and calls, or pull information stored on the phones.
Part of the problem, privacy experts say, is the devices can also collect data from anyone within a small radius of the person being tracked. And law enforcement goes to great lengths to conceal usage, in some cases, offering plea deals rather than divulging details on the StingRay.
Western World ! Government Workers Army and Bankers Workers ! You have to lissen ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDwCTKXCFW4
Bush 41and 43 were a both Democrat war monger who should be given a fair trial and then hung next to Obama and Clinton.
This article is supposed to be, ..good..? Wow)
I can’t wait until the truth about Sr goes main stream. In the hierarchy of the swamp, he’s about 3 or 4 from the top (or the bottom, plugging the drain..)
off topic…..Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspXeCBR9Pk
RT discusses Asia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6wtSggzfM
One of the Corruption-Meisters labelled:
I was taught that a man is only as good as his word. Bush’s word was worthless. He swore he would not raise taxes and then did, and when reporters asked him about breaking his pledge, he had the gall to turn his back to the cameras and wiggle his fanny. And then he accepted the Profile in Courage award from the Kennedys and the LBJ award from the Johnson daughters for helping their dad murder JFK. Bush will burn in hell with LBJ, the Clintons, Obama, and John McCain.
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The jsmineset discussion with Bix Weir, Cliff High etc.
Republican tax cuts will hurt Americans. And Democrats will pay the price
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/20/republican-tax-cuts-democrats
Looks like Democrats will have to clean up the mess again (as usual)
The Guardian used to be an intellectual newspaper.
It still is, except that English intellectuals have evolved into socialist morons; leaches living off the real workers in society.
There was nothing courageous about Bush raising taxes. What would have been courageous would be if during campaigning he would have made the statement that economic decisions like that should be based on what the economy is doing at a given point in time. To make rigid statements like he did during the campaign is just political pandering and shows a basic lack of courage. You’re not a “good” republican if you don’t talk lowering taxes and cutting spending. Partisans fall for that garbage every time just as they fall for the usual Democratic party agenda every time. Nothing new.
Another “good” Republican campaign “talking point” constantly references building up our military. How can you not win a primary without that one. I haven’t watched many of the presidential debates over the last few years since you can just about predict what everyone of those yahoos are going to say. The exception was last year’s elections which was entertaining because of the Trumpster’s unpredictability. I might add that the proposed tax reform in its’ current form is lousy IMHO.
i know I’m a diehard conservative, a perennial advocate against government overspending, but don’t you (Richard/Doc) even recognize the problem of raising taxes.?
JUST LOOK AT HISTORY.
Countries with lower taxation, ALWAYS grow faster than those with higher taxation. (Other things being equal)
Governments ARE INEFFICIENT. Governments always waste money.
YES, Governments are necessary, but minimal governments are better.
History shows that optimum taxation (depending on resources availability, depending on national needs) is somewhere down around 10% of GDP.
Of course those are an over-simple statements,but we need to get away from partisan politics and talk about economics; the consequence of raising taxation, and the consequences of debt and overspending.
You are right, Richard/Doc, the current proposal is not optimal. but I would never call any tax cut lousy, even if heavily distort by politics.
My comment had nothing to do with raising taxes but instead what you can expect about the usual verbal game that contestants for both parties play.
Ditto Doc…….on lousy
I thought this was the K.E. Report. . .not the Rockefeller Republican/Globalist report.
Don’t forget the Rockefeller Democrats (which includes virtually all of them). As Ron Paul said 30 years ago (in a narrower context), the Democrats are involved too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz7sO-i4H1s
I thought the KE Report Politics was intelligent views as well. Honoring Bush after the crap he did during life is devoid of intelligence. To ignore he was a globalist would be, well…. ignorance, not intelligence.
When ridiculous titles about Bush being honored for “courage” (give me a break) “with 1990 Tax Hikes” (after straight-up lying to everyone’s faces) is comical at best; ill-informed at worst at. Well-informed readers on the KER on not going to give a warm welcome to rubbish like that.
ditto
yep. pretty stomach turning.
……..I mentioned it yesterday and here it is…….. BITvsGOLD debate…….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Dval_I0_w&feature=youtu.be.
only 61/2 hours later than above posting.
Yes, but I said I was going to post it………24 hrs ago……… 🙂
Did you post this one……………..
🙂
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-26/bitcoin-soars-above-9000-hits-new-all-time-high-burst-asian-buying
Here is my 3 DAYs ago post…………
On November 22, 2017 at 3:17 pm,
OOTB Jerry says:
Bix Weir..vs….Sinclair and Holter will be having a debate Sat. this week on the subject of BITCOIN VS GOLD….
This is posted as a reminder for those who may have missed it……………..OOTB
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LETS ALL HAVE A FOLLOW UP DISCUSSION ON THE TAPE………..
What did everyone think of the debate………………………….
Long-winded, low on density of information, even though I happen to agree with most of what was said, is my opinion of the (non) debate.
I have a serious problem with Clif High about his lack of knowledge about science/physics.
He reads too much science fantasy, and believes it.
thanks, I would agree with most of your statement.
I cannot verify the following report, but it is worth listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1a7fInHJg
If true, this will change our historical perception about Senator McCain.
will change some people perception of many politicians.
They’ve been using taxpayer’s money to buy votes.
Now they are using taxpayer’s money to keep secret their (politicians) offenses.
With this abuse, one has to wonder why taxpayers still pay taxes. Oh. Because they will have the money stolen anyway or go to jail.
Meanwhile from Big Al’s backyard…..
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/this-city-hall-brought-to-you-by-amazon/
Add this to your bit of a coin collection…………..
https://www.apmex.com/product/157989/1832-5-capped-bust-gold-half-eagle-ms-63-pcgs-12-stars?22747=2
ONLY $1,200,000
So a Da Vinci painting of Christ sells for $400 Million.
Your point is?
Anything rare enough can collect a very high price?
Only that there is less than a 1/4 oz of gold……..and at the time who would ever think it would go for millions………in 1800s
Clinton bird flocking together
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-26/ex-clinton-foundation-official-tied-chinese-kindergarten-embroiled-bizarre-sexual–0
Nice. I actually saw Paul McCartney play a few years back. Played a great a 2 hour show.
🙂 now that is nice……..
The posting of this article reminds me how the pedophiles put it right in your face also.
Hollywood does the same with their movies.
I think it is hilarious that JFK’s grandson (Caroline’s son) presented the Kennedy Profile in Courage Award to the granddaughter of Poppy Bush to honor Poppy. What will Caroline’s son think when he finds out that he gave a Kennedy Courage award to honor one of the men on the CIA hit squad LBJ sent to murder JFK. Very ironic!
Hi Al, I’m recycling a few posts from last Tuesday–badly timed for the holiday.
On November 22, 2017 at 5:17 am,
GH says:
Hi Al,
I made a new post on the Harlan Ullman thread, suggesting you read Webster Tarpley’s book on GHW Bush:
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/
Yale. Skull and Bones. War profiteering. Financing the Nazis. CIA. JFK. S&L scandal. Iran-Contra affair. The War on Drugs. Desert Storm. The Carlyle Group. 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq wars. This is just a start of the list of events with which the last few generations of Bushes have been intimately associated.
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On November 22, 2017 at 5:17 am,
GH says:
The Ullman thread:
http://www.kereport.com/2017/11/14/dr-harlan-ullman-completely-understands/
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On November 22, 2017 at 7:10 am,
GH says:
Tarpley also has an ‘Unauthorized Biography of Barack Obama’ that I would imagine is also worthwhile.
I don’t know if this is an authorized (non-prirated) copy of the Unauthorized Biography, or not:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_-_the_Unauthorized_Biography.pdf
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