Would You Want The Carlyle Group To Take Over Your Nursing Home?

Posted by Cliff Schecter at 6:23 AM on October 11, 2007.

Cliff Schecter: Prominent Carlylers have included members of the Bush and bin Laden families. That's about all you need to know.

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This post, written by Cliff Schecter, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog

You know the Carlyle Group, an international investment club for yacht owners that exists so scoundrels from across the globe can break bread while discussing ways to further enrich themselves at the expense of 99.75% of the world's people.

Prominent Carlylers have included members of the Bush and bin Laden families. That's about all you need to know.

So shockingly, members of the SEIU are not all that happy about The Carlyle Group's involving itself in the operation of nursing homes, and are forwarding the crazy notion that patient care should rank at least somewhere in the priority range of how many Mercedes your average Carlyler can pack into their 18-car garage.

Let's just say that the Carlyle Group's moving beyond their usual interests, providing a pension plan for despots and producing the weaponry of war, is surely a sign of the apocalypse.

Tagged as: seiu, labor, seniors, nursing home, carlyle group

Cliff Schecter blogs at Brave New Films.

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THAT'S ALL I NEED TO KNOW ? [Report this comment] Posted by: VZEQICVA on Oct 11, 2007 7:48 AM Current rating: 1 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Why don't you let me decide that. Like many others I've been familiar with the Carlyle Group for a long time. No thanks to the media. Why is it necessary to feret out information that ought to out there? Carlyle has been a huge world wide operation for years now. Yes there's a Bush BinLaden connection. What took so long ? By the time we find things out it's too late to do anything. Thanks, ANNA [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » Interlocking Directorates, Shell corporations, Holding Companies, Off-shore entities, Trusts, Posted by: albrechtkrausse let the market speak! [Report this comment] Posted by: Grandma Crabby on Oct 11, 2007 8:48 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] hey, we all know there's a pile of money to be made in letting old geezers lie abandoned in their urine soaked beds!!!! You actually care for the old farts and where's your profit? Why in the world would these robber barons get into the nursing home business? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: let the market speak! Posted by: JSquercia » baby boomers control a hell of a lot of goods/property Posted by: KaptainSpiffy Suits left waiting [Report this comment] Posted by: charlesuchu on Oct 11, 2007 11:46 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The beauty of the last few seconds of that video are priceless. Several money-hoarders in suits, tepidly holding their bags...waiting for that all clear so they can return to business as usual. I wonder how many of them took those few moments to ponder whether their jobs will sustain them much longer... as the People continue to Rise... and empire continues to crumble from greed. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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