Here Is a Crazy Story About Jeb Bush's (Other) Brother ...
Here Is a Crazy Story About Jeb Bush's Brother and a $400 Billion Tunnel to Russia That Wasn't Meant to Be
Neil Bush didn't seem to flinch when his pal the Rev. Moon schemed to drill from Alaska to Siberia.
—By Tim Murphy
| Tue Jan. 6, 2015 6:15 AM EST
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon had a grand idea: the World Peace King Tunnel. It would be 53 miles long, cost $400 billion, and stretch underneath the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. It would take three years to build. When completed, it would link up with the eight-lane International Peace Highway that Moon had also proposed. That road would be bordered on both sides by one kilometer of land that would not belong to any nation. When both projects were completed, traffic could pass unimpeded from the Cape of Good Hope to New York City. And if travelers wanted to get married in the tunnel, there'd be places to do that, too.
A multinational construction project that had no funding stream or historical precedent and that was proposed by a self-described messiah who believed he had posthumously healed Adolf Hitler might strike some people as a bit ambitious. But in 2005, when Moon, the late South Korean-born conservative media mogul and founder of the Unification Church, embarked on a world tour to promote his idea, he brought along an unusual companion—Neil Bush, the younger brother of President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
As Jeb Bush now aims to become the third member of his family to be elected president, he'll have to navigate the legacy not just of his polarizing older brother, but also that of his younger brother, whose business exploits have dogged—if not tainted—the family for decades. In 1988, Neil Bush was embroiled in the savings and loan scandal after his business went belly-up and cost US taxpayers $1 billion.
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for their actions.
I wonder why that is.
He swooped in with his seafood money ("The Way of the Tuna"
when the Republicans were trying to refind themselves (Reagan) and in return had demands. Religion as a pillar of the party. Lee Atwater added "gays" to finish the trilogy. They now say the PC "Family Values".
Moon also knew they needed a white face on TV and he found a broke Southern Baptist minister who would play great with the white crowd. He kept Falwell afloat and he became a fixture in the media.
Much of the Reagan Revolution goes back to Rev. Moon.
His operation still gets a bite out of about 1/3 of seafood in this country and if you ever have bought sushi the Moon operation got some of that too - he basically mainstreamed that into the American diet.
