The Carlyle Group has bid $11.1 billion to purchase Virgin Media!

Virgin Media is the television, video-on-demand, internet service provider, telephone and advertising division of Richard Branson's UK based empire. Virgin Airlines, records, books, etc fall under the Virgin Group and would not be owned by The Carlyle Group.

So who are The Carlyle Group? They're a Washington DC based private equity firm with strong Republican ties. They're major war profiteers, as they are one of the largest military contractors in the world. Not to mention that both President Bushs, as well as James Baker III and Donald Rumsfeld, have sat on their board at one-time.

I thought that was sickening until I read that The Carlyle Group also purchased a U.S. health care firm for 6.3 billion dollars. Seeing as Carlyle specializes in leveraged finance buyouts and then working to tear apart the companies in order to "make them more profitable," I can't wait to see what they have planned for Manor Care Inc., the operator of more than 500 long-term care centers.

It's companies like The Carlyle Group that lobby to keep America in wars like the one in Iraq and lobby against universal health care and medicare policies. They're evil men who care more about profit-margins than what's best for the country......