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IF A POLITICIAN DOES THIS IT IS LEGAL. IF ANYONE ELSE DOES THIS - WE GO TO PRISON
A forwarded email - You decide if it is true
The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. All 56 were built, operated, and paid for by tax-paying American citizens. Now enjoy reading the rest: 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!(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).
Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune, estimated 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 2% 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?
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.
Pass this info on before it's pulled from the Internet. You can verify it on TruthorFiction and Snopes:
www.truthorfiction.com/…/Blum-Post-Office-Sale-06101…
www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp
If this doesn't upset you, don't complain about the corruption and the ineptness in D.C.
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Dianne Feinstein's Husband Brokering Post Offices-Truth!
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This is a forwarded email that alleges that the husband of California Senator Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blum, is brokering the sale of a number of U.S. Post Offices and facilities that are no longer needed.Your Trash is Big Business
by Dr. Kevin McNamee
Thousand Oaks City Council should put the brakes on the decision for a 15 year renewal with Waste Management and E.J. Harrison and Sons, the city’s two waste-hauling providers, until a competitive bid process takes place. This especially needs to occur when the proposed agreement will cause city residents a 13% fee increase and commercial customers a staggering 67% fee increase - which will be passed along to Conejo consumers.
City council at the December 10 meeting voted three to two to postpone voting on a 15 year contract that will give a monopoly to the current waste-hauling companies so council members can “think” about the need for a competitive bid. What is there to think about? This decision to postpone is a no-brainer. It should have been unanimous.
The first rule in economics is the consumer searches for the lowest price for the greatest value of a product or service. Second rule in economics is competitive bids for a product or service allows the consumer to find the highest quality product for the lowest price.
A lengthy 15 year contract, expires in 2035, eliminates new waste hauling companies from entering the market to drive the price down. It will be too costly for a start up to bid on our contract that expires in 2035. The established waste haulers who do not win the bid, move their equipment to other cities and will not be back to bid on the next contract. Shorten the contract length to 5 years to encourage more competition.
The 15 year agreement is anti competitive, giving a virtual monopoly to the current waste hauling providers. Fewer competitors bidding means higher rates for all of us.
City council members and city managers are custodians of our tax dollars. We entrust them to find the highest service at the lowest price. A competitive bid process and reducing the contract period to 5 years will do this. Keep the money in your pocket, not theirs. You earned your money. You spend it the wisest.
Hoover Institute Economist Thomas Sowell says what is important to a healthy economy is both the amount of money flowing through the market but also the velocity it moves from person to person.
By city council members not going to a competitive bid does not ensure the best use of our tax dollars. This is an example of when people in authority spend other peoples’ money, the price goes up.
www.toacorn.com/articles/end-waste-hauler-monopoly/
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