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Just caught this from our friends at Reverb Press and is easily one of the best pieces i have come across:
So you were OK with Haliburton making billions of dollars off wars while Dick Cheney was in office But now you think the Clinton's should close their charitable organization which saves lives because it's a "conflict of interest"?
Likewise, why was it wrong when Cheney did it, but Clinton gets a free pass? Now who is the hypocrite?
Something to do with profit versus charity, maybe?
But, heck, shut that puppy down - who needs help from a charity anyways! According to the trumpist view, the clinton foundation never did any good at all, ever, despite the evidence to the contrary.
Dick Cheney got deferred compensation while at Halliburton. He also nearly put the company under by buying Dresser industries. They had an asbestos problem. He either thought he could make it go away or did not do proper due diligence.
All those government contracts to put out fires in the Iraqi oil fields and the construction of Guantanamo bay, the showers that electrocuted soldiers in Iraq, etc. saved Halliburton and Cheney's pension. He did give some of his stock option earnings to charity.
IMO, Hillary as SOS and the Foundation are no different than a campaign contribution. Especially those dark money pacs.
Where is the outrage about campaign contributions?
Let me get this straight, must be the ratified air in Phoenix eh? A charitable Foundation that saves thousands of lives per year and has a network of employees and agencies helping countless numbers of people around the world is akin to Cheney/Haliburton profiting to the tune of 40 Billion dollars when Cheney as vice president convinced Bush 2 to invade Iraq?Know i know kat why we keep on keeping on, it's just too much fun not to.
Chelsea will stay on at the foundation if her "mother" is elected to POTUS thus allowing continued "pay for play" by the Clintons. When you look at what donations did when going to her as SOS, imagine what can be bought by "donors" of the foundation if she is POTUS.
People, Dick Cheney never ran for POTUS. Geesh. Oh, he's not running now either.
Anyone who criticizes the Clinton Foundation is talking out of their behind. This organization has done so much good, helped countless people, and saved a lot of lives, that it should be beyond criticism at any level.
I know you Trumpies do not like to watch videos, especially Clinton videos, but read a little of this information of what they actually do:
Raised $313 million for R&D into new vaccines and medicines;
Helped provide better maternal and child survival care to more than 110 million people, and;
Provided treatment for more than 36 million people with tropical diseases.
Private firms are also in the mix. Biotech giant Gileadgild and the NAACP joined forces to recruit religious leaders in the African American community to help fight HIV/AIDS, which disproportionately affects blacks in the U.S. Medical tech company Becton Dickinsonbd, which ranked among the 50 companies in Fortune‘s Change the World list this year, has committed to dramatically cutting the price of CD4 immune cell tests for HIV-positive people across 55 countries.
And in 2015, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and a host of other partners pledged to build up a world-class cancer diagnostic and treatment system in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti, including boosting telemedicine and cloud-based electronic health records systems. The project is currently ongoing.
The Foundation says that another one of its arms, a collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA) called the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, has helped provide access to healthier meals across more than 31,000 American schools and boosted physical education, the availability of nutritious meals, and extracurricular exercise in poor communities with high obesity rates.
There is a lot more, if you just take the time to open up your minds and read a little.
And I might ask, what have YOU done to help people the way Bill and Hillary have ?
Bill and Hillary used and use the foundation to help themselves first and foremost. Using the "pay for play" when she was SOS, seriously.
Also, direct support to the countries was only a small portion.
Does anyone know what the foundation did in the LA for the people that suffered the flood? I guess there was no "pay for play"? No money in, no money out?
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Blackwater was a giant paytoplay. Multiple billions rewarded in return for a campaign contribution by DeVos family empire.
New York Times
" OCTOBER 3, 2007
It should come as no surprise that the Bush administration would take any opportunity to reward its political friends with lavish no-bid contracts. Still, there is something particularly unseemly about the munificent payments to Blackwater, the State Department’s principal private security contractor in Iraq."
I am not saying Clinton is right to have a foundation. I am actually agreeing it is a tempting loophole to gain access.
No party was more evil with paytoplay than the GOP. They still are. Who do you think is buying them now with their ringing endorsements of fossil fuels and denial of global warming?
Bill and Hillary used and use the foundation to help themselves first and foremost. Using the "pay for play" when she was SOS, seriously.
Also, direct support to the countries was only a small portion.
Does anyone know what the foundation did in the LA for the people that suffered the flood? I guess there was no "pay for play"? No money in, no money out?
Allan B West...really, that's the best you've got AwE? Geez, the Guardian of Freedom guru eh?
I tried reading it but it started with the nonsense on 10% and i just gave it up before i threw up. That bunk has been dismissed a thousand times by virtually everyone in the game.
Then we start getting bombarded with the pay to play whine and all one can do is smile. So how much did Bill and Hillary get paid from their Foundation? I'll be waiting for your answer, because you and i both know it was ZERO. But wait, they got their travel expenses paid...and they hired friends and so what?
Damn, don't ya just hate it when that happens.
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© Provided by Fortune Hillary Clinton And Michael Bloomberg Announce Partnerships To Close Gender Data Gaps It has several separate entities through which it deploys its health programs, including the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Established as part of the Foundation in 2005, CGI essentially acts as a launching pad for programs by bringing together a variety of stakeholders, including NGOs, executives, entrepreneurs, politicians, and others, who then commit to various ambitious projects. CGI doesn’t actually implement those projects itself--rather, it says it serves as a “catalyst for action.” For instance, in 2015, as a participant in CGI’s events,the infant and maternal health group Embrace Innovations pledged to bringits innovative Embrace infant warmer (which doesn’t require a fixed electricity source) to 100,000 babies in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.