Heroes Of The Conservative Movement Trading Cards…Collect Them All…
Card 31: Barbra Bush donates a portion of her vast wealth to help her fellow Americans recover from Katrina. Well…to her son actually…
The Houston Chronicle reports this morning that the donation Barbara Bush made to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund was ‘earmarked’ for the educational software company Ignite!
As some of you probably know that’s the junk company owned by her ne’er-do-well son Neil Bush.
Actually, though, it’s way better, or worse, depending on your turn of mind.
Ignite!’s has a unique business model, which works like this. Neil goes around the world finding international statesmen, bigwigs and criminals who want to ‘invest’ in Ignite! as a way to curry favor with the brother in the White House.
A couple years ago when I was at Salon I wrote about the craze for investment in Ignite! then taking hold among Red Sea oil magnates and progeny of the rulers of the People’s Republic of China (See this article as well about the craze for investing in Ignite! in the United Arab Emirates and specifically in Dubai). Now, Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has awakened to the wonders of investing in Ignite!
Kudos to Joshua Marshall. Yes…her donation was tax deductable.
