Anyone surprised by this?
GOING POSTAL
An excellent example of the need for term limits.
Crony capitalism is alive and well!
The
US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56
buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. 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 and
is shown with her in the picture above. (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).
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Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (est. 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 3% 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?
And
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.
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Verified on Snopes:http://www.snopes.com/
and Snopes usually puts a liberal spin on whatever it reports.
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