But YOU PAY for THEIR LAVISHNESS!!!
And this guy Kerry has the NERVE to complain about corruption elsewhere?
"Political ties open path to Pakistan aid; Kerry donor got assist with hospital project" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | June 20, 2010
WASHINGTON — It started off as a real estate deal: A gated community outside Pakistan’s capital, luxury homes sold to well-off Pakistani-Americans, and a high-end medical center nearby.
Then housing prices plummeted. So organizers, including Shahid Ahmed Khan, a Framingham businessman who is a long-time fund-raiser for Senator John F. Kerry, developed another idea: get US foreign aid to help build a $500 million, world-class medical institute, using expertise from a subsidiary of Partners HealthCare, the company that runs Boston’s elite teaching hospitals.
Yes, that is $500 million in YOUR TAX MONEY to TAKE CARE of ELITES, taxpayers! This while YOU SUFFER!
Related: Memory Hole: Why the Nation Doesn't Need Massachusetts Health Care
Oh, are you are going to get OVERCHARGED like us?
At Khan’s request, a staffer for Kerry, who heads the Senate committee that oversees a new $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan, helped set up a meeting with the US Agency for International Development. Now the project’s organizers say they believe they will receive $17 million for the first phase — a nursing school that is slated to accept students later this year.
This while YOUR SCHOOLS are LAYING OFF TEACHERS, America.
Khan makes no secret of using political connections to seek USAID funds.
“Getting a call from a senator’s office gives some credibility,’’ he said.
Wow, I never got a call from the senator. All I was met with was silence when I called to complain about the wars, etc.
Kerry’s spokesman, Frederick Jones, said Kerry had no knowledge that a staffer in his office sent an e-mail on behalf of a major campaign contributor.
And now the LYING BEGINS!
Jones said the staffer, whom he declined to identify, helped Khan as she would any other constituent.
Do these people UNDERSTAND what LYING S*** BAGS!!
Furthermore, he said it is Kerry’s policy not to favor any USAID application over others.
But Khan’s apparently successful advocacy illustrates how useful political connections can be, at a time when so many organizations are jockeying for a slice of the new Pakistan funding.
How about YOUR POLITICAL CONNECTIONS and JOCKEYING for a SLICE, Americans?
Those extended unemployment benefits come through yet?
The attempt to build a state-of-the-art medical facility in one of the world’s most turbulent nations has also sparked a debate over what projects will offer the most benefit to ordinary Pakistanis.
“Are we building a Mayo clinic for the political elite?’’ asked Patrick Cronin, a former official for USAID who is now a senior adviser at the Center for New American Security. “Who is benefiting from it?’’
That is WHAT IT IS, all right, and that is ALWAYS the QUESTION that should be asked!
The project’s organizers counter that the patch of arid land outside Islamabad could some day be home to a medical flagship that will improve lives and reduce anti-Americanism in a crucial region.
“Health care and education, you cannot go wrong with it,’’ said Khan. “People can forget if you build a road, but people will never forget if you build an institution in their country.’’
They ALSO NEVER FORGET YOU if you PUT their FAMILY MEMBERS in GRAVES!!!
And if you CAN'T GO WRONG with those things, Americans, why are WE NOT GETTING THEM?!!!
A persuasive partner
The idea began in 2005, when the Defense Housing Authority in Islamabad — a nonprofit arm of the Pakistani military that builds and sells housing for retired army officers — sought to create a new community to lure Pakistani doctors living abroad back to the country.
Oh, I SEE!
Kerry TAKING CARE of the PAKISTAN MILITARY!
No wonder they are MURDERING their OWN PEOPLE for us!!
Billed as “the ultimate in living,’’ early advertisements boasted of excellent schools and gardens in a new subdivision called the “Overseas Sector.’’
As other people just over the hill are pounded into oblivion.
Profits from home sales would finance a hospital for that community, according to Dr. Mian Amer Masud, a Pakistani doctor who helped conceive of the idea and whose company, Overseas Management Group, manages the project. Demand for an advanced medical center seemed clear: Pakistan currently has only one hospital that meets the highest international standards, and it is more than 700 miles from Islamabad.
Which means PAKISTANIS are ON THEIR OWN when it comes to HEALTH CARE!!
Masud said he badly wanted expertise from a Harvard-affiliated hospital, but wasn’t sure how to get it. Then, in 2006, a friend introduced him to Khan, a Pakistani-American with a thick Rolodex and a reputation for deal-making.
Let me give the senator a call.
“He is the kind of guy you just can’t say no to,’’ said Bryan Irwin, design principal at Sasaki, a architecture firm from Watertown hired to design the project.
Must be some Ashkenazi in him.
Khan, 53, had been in Massachusetts since the 1990s, working as a sales representative, and then a manager for pharmaceutical companies before starting his own consulting business. Over the years, he built an empire of friendships, connecting American politicians to Pakistani doctors who had never been involved in US politics before.
Are you SURE he IS NOT a SPY like those RUSSIANS!!!?
Jonathan Patsavos, Kerry’s New England finance director, says Khan raised more than $200,000 in New England for Kerry’s presidential bid, and threw additional fund-raisers in New York and California.
Khan said he met Kerry about 14 years ago, when he was impressed by a speech the senator gave to a local Islamic society.
Since then, the two kept in touch. Khan sends Kerry memos about his views of Pakistan’s problems.
But he doesn't remember an e-mail about the clinic.
Recently, Kerry invited Khan to a gathering at his home with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Khan also raised money for Hillary Rodham Clinton and the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Getting tired of the Washington charade, readers?
After Masud asked for his help, Khan called Kennedy’s office and asked staffers to help him set up a meeting with Partners Harvard Medical International, a nonprofit consulting subsidiary of Partners HealthCare that has helped build hospitals and medical schools in Dubai, China, India, and elsewhere.
“Kennedy was a big health care guy,’’ Khan said. “I thought at that time, if Kennedy’s office called, it would be helpful.’’
Partners eventually signed a 10-year contract to develop a 400-bed teaching hospital. Partners also convinced the project’s organizers to expand their plans to include a medical school, dental school, pharmacy school, and a school of allied health sciences.
But most of all, Partners pushed for a nursing program that will eventually graduate up to 100 nurses a year. There are only 4 nurses per 10,000 people in Pakistan, compared with 94 nurses per 10,000 in the United States.
“When we did the needs assessment, it was quite clear that maternal-child health is crucial,’’ said Dr. H. Thomas Aretz, Partners vice president of global programs.
Partners pushed for the project to be a nonprofit venture; Khan is now president of a foundation that he helped set up to run the hospital and medical school.
“With the not-for-profit, we felt more comfortable,’’ said Aretz. “The whole idea behind the not-for-profit is that anybody will be able to walk in and get care.’’
Hey, THAT is what WE WANTED for health care HERE in America -- and instead we got the OBAMA TAX!
Of course, I DOUBT it will be ANYBODY!
The project has been a boon for many in Boston.
I'm sure Bostonian are feeling all warm inside.
Sasaki, the architecture firm, was paid roughly $1 million for two years of work, Irwin said. Partners will not discuss its fees.
Khan also declined to say how much he receives from the Overseas Management Group, which he says covers his expenses. But he says he will not receive compensation once the foundation takes over the project.
And probably a WHOLE LOT MORE!
“You see my role as a citizen of the world,’’ he said. “I just want to make this thing happen, without any commercial interest.’’
Spoken like a TRUE GLOBALIST!
And instead of private funding, yeah, he got US TAX DOLLARS for it!
Ain't that GREAT, America!?
A little help from friends
Initially, housing sales raised about $1 million for the new hospital, Masud said. But after Taliban attacks and the global economic crisis slashed real estate prices, project organizers began seeking USAID funding. Last year, Khan brought Aretz, the lead Partners official, to Capitol Hill.
Around that time, a staff member who works for Kerry’s Foreign Relations Committee, sent an e-mail to Robert Wilson, the mission director of USAID in Pakistan. Jones declined to release the content of the e-mail, but issued a statement: “Senator Kerry and [his] staff have absolutely no input or role in the awarding of USAID contracts and have never once advocated to USAID on behalf of a specific project.’’
Then RELEASE the E-MAIL, you LYING sack of SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wilson said in a statement that projects are funded on their merits, and that any tie to Kerry would have no impact....
Another f***ing liar.
But....
But what, Glob!!!!???
Yeah, those two guys are S***-DIPPED LIARS, that what!
