MOM, THE FLAG & APPLE PIE FOUNDATION
Do you want to get rich like your Congress person or Senator is. It is really not that difficult. First, put all your morals, scruples and integrity in a bag and lock it away somewhere it can’t annoy you. Next pick an elected official to pattern your life after. Maybe someone like current California Senator and former Congressman Adam Schiff.
Senator Schiff has a lengthy resume of lies and perjury. He is not a man hindered by the truth and has amassed himself a treasury of some 17 Million (known) Dollars and who knows what other plunder he has tucked away.
Or, consider Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives who entered Congress with some $40,000 in debt and after six years in office has a stock portfolio worth 36 Million dollars. Talk about good luck!
What you want to do is get yourself elected to public office like the above mentioned examples or any one of a number of other public servants who have acquired great wealth with a somewhat perhaps little known but very lucrative “second career”, perhaps as a Member of a Governing Board, or better still the Director of a Foundation or Corporation who does business with the Government.
Here is a simple example of putting yourself on the path to prosperity: (1) Get elected to public office, say the U.S. House of Representatives. (2) Set up a Charitable Foundation. I could call mine: Mom, The Flag and Apple Pie Foundation but other more creative players have come up with more “catchy” names such as the “Clinton Global Initiative” whose stated primary goal was to fight diarrhea in Africa and other worthy causes.
But, let us stick with my Mom, The Flag and Apple Pie Foundation. I will of course be the Director of the foundation and my wife and other “friends” will all serve on the Governing Board.
(3) Next, as a member of the the House of Representatives “assist” in creating legislation to “Flush” ( and I use the term on purpose) several Billion Tax Payer Dollars through a created department like U S AID (United States Aid Department) and then pilot a request that they “grant” 50 Million Dollars to the Mom, The Flag and Apple Pie Foundation to be used to encourage the “public” to be “Patriotic”. (4) Once the money is received, as Director and with the support of the Foundations Board Members we will buy one Flag, one Apple Pie and send a card to our mothers on Mothers Day wishing her the best. The rest of the money is paid out to our salaries and expenses such as creative “Retreats” at high end resorts and for “travel”, “Consultants”, “Personal Staff”, “Security”, “Luxury offices”, “vehicles” etc. etc.
To see the above as a true art form of “get rich schemes” we must look back at our friends the Clinton’s. Example:
When Port-Au-Prince in Haiti was devastated by a massive 7.0 Earthquake in 1993 over 13 Billion Tax Payer Dollars were pledged to help rebuild the City and surrounding area. Several Billion of these dollars were “flushed” through the Clinton Foundation to rebuild housing and infrastructure in Port-Au-Prince. Very little housing was rebuilt and the infrastructure remains a shambles to this day but the money disappeared – “Poof” and the Clinton’s who according to Hilary left the White House some millions of Dollars in debt (her words) find themselves today worth, according to published figures, more than 900 Million Dollars. True “giants” in the art of turning “Public Service” into a profitable career. Editors note: There is very little evidence that the “books” of the Clinton Foundation have ever been subjected to outside scrutiny but what little information that has been gleaned indicates that less than 10% of funds donated have ever been spent on stated causes.
Don’t want to stoop to the likes of “How Low Can You Go” Adam Schiff or the Clinton Crime Family? Without going to the trouble of becoming a Politician you can set up your own “Foundation” and contribute generously to a “Pliable” Man or Woman already in office for their “Political Campaign”, get to “know them” and then offer them well paid seats on your “Governing Board” and let them “Shepard” the Legislation to get Tax Payer Funds to come your way.
On a more local level you can find yourself a Conrad Blowhard Mayor who will push through a 60 Million Dollar renovation on a shoddy old hotel to accommodate 120 homeless people at a cost of $500,000 per vagrant (and co-incidentally leave his city with a 60 Million Dollar budget deficit the following year) to enrich you and his other supporters with fat contracts to enrich your and their bank accounts at the expense of the City Taxpayers. So, get creative at the “Public Trough” of Tax Dollars.
So, if you want to get into a profitable career and personal integrity is not a stumbling block for you, consider a life as an elected “Public Representative” or “working partner” of one.
It is not my intent to malign the integrity and honor of all elected officials but current disclosures indicate that a high percentage of “Politicians” are in it for the money.
Bob Bandy – April 2025
