Clinton Charitable Contributions Went To Clinton Foundation

I love it when HuffPo reports banal activities of the Clintons - even philanthropy - as though they were scandalous.

And you are suprised HOW? It has been and is always will be all about the Clintons and lining their pockets.

so generous - we give to ourselves....gee, why not give 10 million to care, unicef, ONE or rebuilding LA after Katrina.... now that would be generous

Any American who STILL believes that Bill and Hillary Clinton are honest, decent, progressive people who deeply care about the middle class is either seriously deluded, smoking crack or just plain ol f_cking stupid. That's the bottom line. I mean you gotta love the In your face corruptness of the Clintons---"I am Bill Clinton, let me set up a Charitable Foundation, call it the Clinton Global Initiative that allows me to solicit donations from the world's richest people and then use those funds to fund my personal pet projects like the Clinton Presidential Library and my wife's Presidential Campaign. Hey tell you what, even better idea, I sold the Whitehouse (Lincoln Bedroom, FALN Terrorists & Marc Rich Pardons) on the way out last time. Let me sell the next Clinton Whitehouse to the highest bidders before Hillary gets there, you know after all she is the inevitable candidate right? What a great sales pitch, Hillary is the next President, wanna donate to our charitable endeavors...wink wink. POLITICS IS THE CLINTON FAMILY BUSINESS---selling favors and access to power is the revenue generator. OLD TIME POLITICS at its finest. CLINTON=FRAUD

Through their "charitable foundations", the rich can be up to all kinds of mischief, running businesses and hiring people to perform services that may run counter to our own individual and national interests, and be, in fact, more for their own long term private self-interests. For instance, the Clinton Foundation appears to have people on the payroll who are working on HRC's campaign.

The Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation is allegedly spending money in Africa. How charitable or wise is their giving in fact? What could the government of the US, as well as the governments around the world, do to alleviate the problems Africans encounter on a daily basis, that would no longer necessitate foreign aid? Is our own foreign policy in Africa the source or one of the sources of their troubles?

Are the rich in other nations doing the same for us? Are they using their "charitable foundations" to feed and house our poor? Are the Saudis paying for our health care?

Why you should care when the rich funnel income into their own "charitable foundations":

It's to avoid paying taxes, which would go to pay for services that are vital to a functioning democracy. For things like our infrastructure (roads, bridges, rail lines, mass transit, dams, ports, waterways, etc.), national defense, police and fire fighting services, public health, food safety, education, environmental clean-up, natural resources (national parks, federal lands, water projects), health research, interest on the federal debt, anti poverty programs, social security, medicare, justice administration, community and regional development, veterans' benefits, federal employees' pension, foreign aid.

If the rich aren't paying for these services, you are, the burden falls to you.

If you go to http://empowertube.blogspot.com/ you will find out that the Clinton library was funded by the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen. The government of Dubai, Kuwait and Qatar and duputy prime minister of Lebanon also donated $1 million or more for the museum and library.

Not surprised.
And who is on the board of that "charity?"
Several members of her campaign team.
Guess they could afford to work for the campaign for free because they have that job at the foundation that will let them miss a few work days?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/us/politics/20clinton.html?hp
"In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of the foundation"s donors. At least two dozen have become "Hillraisers," each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. The early library donors, combined with their families and political action committees, have contributed at least $784,000 to Mrs. Clinton"s Senate and presidential coffers.

The foundation and Mrs. Clinton"s political campaigns have been intertwined in other ways. Terry McAuliffe, who led the foundation"s fund-raising and sits on its board, is now Mrs. Clinton"s campaign chairman and chief fund-raiser. Cheryl Mills plays a similar dual role, sitting on the foundation board and serving as the general counsel to Mrs. Clinton"s campaign. And Jay Carson recently traded a communications position at the foundation for a job as her campaign"s press secretary."

Hasn't everyone heard? Charity begins at home.
The Clintons know that if you don't.
Clinton charity begins at home; often ends there too.

Half a BILLION dollars has gone to the Clinton Library and the WJC foundation. We need to know who those donors are.

Bill Clinton is a rich pig..... He abused his power when he tried to seduce young impressionable woman working in the whitehouse, with his wife practically in the next room. Bill and Hillary are a disfunctional couple. no matter how much money they have,the've lost the respect of many people.

So what? Isn't their own charity a charity? It is common practice for non for profit organizations not to give all their donations away immediately. There are so many factors that are involved including 3-5 year donation plans that all othese organizations have.

And Gates' went to his foundation. What's the big deal? I guess if they gave it to Rev. Wright's Church you would cut them some slack?

Oh Yeah! Swings and roundabouts!

Nothing wrong about being multi-millionaires, or giving your foundation all the charity money to advance social courses. But everything is wrong when the same millionaire is involved in back room back deals with union busting Colombian Gov trade deals while pretending to be the champion of the low income blue collar, barely surviving workers of PA.