We the People: How to Choose Your Candidate

"Is There A Place Called Human Race?" It is apparent that this question, marking the title song from, RATIO A Rock Opera, will be asked by someone, somewhere, in the future, if we do not find new trails to blaze and new ways to live to enable us to get off this jungle path of social, economic and governmental calamity. We The People are divided, poised, and ready to point fingers at every government leader that may have contributed to the moral and social descent of this country. But in our haste to "pass the buck, we, the people, have failed to understand that we control who we wish to protect our environment, homes, communities and our democracy. If there is a problem with the ethics and morals of our leaders, we should look within and ask what lead us to put them in office. Was it their mannerisms, the promises in their speech, the family portrait, bashing or their opponent.....what did we find in the candidate that lead us to vote for him or her?

My father once told me, ...."Make sure you know the core values of a family before you marry into it." How silly, I thought, I am not marrying the family. But, over the years I found this rule to be true in business or personal life. Know the family history, business practices and ideals, and you will know the motives of your candidate of choice. For example: I doubt that "The Decider" would have been elected if the majority of the voters would have taken the time or interest to ask our friend, Google, about the history of the business ethics of the men in the Decider's family history.

According to the Wikipedia encyclopedia site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush ....the Decider's grandfather, Prescott Sheldon Bush, in 1924, was made vice-president of Harriman & Co. by his father-in-law, to help supervise the new Thyssen/Flick United Steel Works. The New York Herald-tribune referred to the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, as "Hitler's Angel." In 1931 Prescott Bush became a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Harriman Bank was the main Wall Street connection for Gerrman companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been the early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but who by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler.

Business transactions for profit with Nazi Germany were not illegal when Hitler declared war on the US, but, six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were doing business with the declared enemy of the United States. On October 20th, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City. Vesting order #248 was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, seizing the property of Prescott Bush under the Trading With The Enemy Act.

The assets were held for the duration of the war, and then returned. Prescott Bush was on the Board of Directors and held one share for which he was reimbursed $1,500,000, later used to launch the Bush family investments in the Texas energy industry. You might also be interested in learning about Great Grandfather Bush's arms industry.

As We The People stand at the beginning of a new chapter in American history we can no longer use ignorance of a candidate's values as an excuse for putting the wrong man or woman in office. We live in a world of information, isn't it time to look before we leap!