Only 5.7 Percent Of Clinton Foundation Budget Actually Went To Charitable Grants

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  1. TomFitz

    TomFitz Well-Known Member

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    Read the debunk. The claim based on the charatable grant line in the 990 is deliberately misleading. Which is what you would expect from Daily Baller.

    And yes, this fake story has been recycled.

    The Clinton Foundation is not in the major business of grant awarding. It does most of its work itself, rather than dispense cash to others.
     
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    TomFitz Well-Known Member

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    I diid.

    You cited a right wing trash blog with zero credibility, and a copy of a tax form which does nothing to change the fact that the Daily Baller story is deliberately misleading.

    In another post, you try and dispute Trump's greed and miserliness by attacking the Clinton Foundation for spending other people's money.

    Of course, the difference is that the Clinton foundation actually does useful work, while the Trump Foundation, which consists of five people, all related, has no track record of giving to anyone, other than checks written after they were caught pocketing donation by the Washington Post, payoffs to politicians, and a six foot portrait of their namesake.

    Then you go on to talk about how the Clintons are "owned" by way of deflection and support of a candidate who has been for sale every day of his life.
     
  3. way2convey

    way2convey Well-Known Member

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    LOL...Yea, and it appears most of the "work" they're doing involves fund raising.
     
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    One sentence Hilarity spoke says it all... ''I love it,'' she added, ''we're so happy.''

    I don't know what amazes me more -- the blatant, in-your-face hypocrisy of "Limousine Liberals" like the Clintons, who live lives of sumptuous, luxury-strewn abundance while preaching empty, vapid catechisms of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", or, the stupid, gullible cattle who actually believe this distorted brand of socialist horse (*)(*)(*)(*).

    I'd like to see Hillary LIVE the wonderous, socialist life that she and the other "Limo-libs" preach, but don't have to endure. I'd like to see them send their kids to rotten public schools, have to get medical services through Obamacare, and exist in the empty misery of waiting to see if the welfare check is going to arrive in the mail on time. It sure as hell wasn't like this in the 1980's, and although Ronald Reagan certainly wasn't "dead broke", he was no socialist, either. Ask ANYBODY who actually worked for a living and supported himself if it was better then, or now.... Oh, and Hilarity promises to give you an Obama "3rd-term"...? :hippie:
     
  5. TomFitz

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    No, the stupid make fools of themselves, as we see by the very existance of this thread.

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    Document that claim. Your OP is false and has been discredited by several posters from several sources.

    You'll have to do a lot better that a trash rag like Daily Baller.
     
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    The Clinton Foundation is NOT a pass thru charity.... as in direct grants. Most of their work is as a PUBLIC OPERATIONAL charity.....

    the problem is that most people don't understand the language or what that means.

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    The Clinton Foundation is NOT a pass thru charity.... as in direct grants. Most of their work is as a PUBLIC OPERATIONAL charity.....

    the problem is that most people don't understand the language or what that means.
     
  7. TomFitz

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    They're not interested in understanding,

    This is a lie, a lie constructed of one cherry picked fact that is built into a deliberately misleading claim.

    You will note that the OP vacated his own thread, after being called out by a lot of people.

    The people who high fived him, are content to accept the lie at face value.

    This is how sites like Daily Baller work.
     
  8. way2convey

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    I did, it's right there in the tax form, numb nuts.
     
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    They want to believe the lie.
    Sadly, I think you are correct.

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    OPERATING EXPENSES FOR AN OPERATIONAL CHARITY.
     
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    Yea, yea...kinda like their understanding what "is" is, right? :roll:
     
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    Give it up. You have no clue of what you speak, just like the garbage source you got it from.
     
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    Well that sure makes the pay to play claims seem idiotic doesn't it?
     
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    No.. It means that the Clinton Foundation is implementing programs all over the world. and they are listed at the website.
     
  14. In The Dark

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    This is mostly BS since the Clinton Crime Family Foundation spends directly on its works, not sending funds to existing charity.

    But that still leaves plenty of room to grease the underlings and principles. Everyone gets dusted off with travel and other perks. Many get well paid jobs similar to the Soprano crew at any construction site, where donut eating is the primary responsibility. Beak wetting for all.
     
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    They give 5.7 million in grants to other charities.. and the rest goes to their programs. Its been explained 6 ways to Sunday. Why can't you understand that?

    In fact, they spent slightly less on overhead than the American Red Cross.
     
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    I get it. When the Crime Family Foundation sends Slick Willie out to schmooze some turd world thug it's counted as a 'program expense'. Overhead also includes a metric crapton of juiced in jobs for the Capos and below in the Family org chart.
     
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    While we know that FactCheck.org is used by the Progressive Left to cover up it's nefarious operations. Even WAPO has given FactCheck 5 Pinocchio's for their false and biased reports

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    Nope.. They distribute AIDS medicines to thousands, teach farmers better farming techniques, drill wells, educate girls.. That sort of thing.

    You sure are clever.
     
  19. In The Dark

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    Indeed they do all that.

    They also pay scumbags like Sid Vicious. And Cheryl Mills and Hummer Abedine, etc. And these Capos get some multiple in pay comparoed to thier actual production.

    It's got a large fraction of scam that gets disappeared into the accounting.

    Anyone thinking otherwise is a tool or a fool.
     
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    Here's what the foundation does in Haiti.

    https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-foundation-haiti
     
  21. TomFitz

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    The tax form says nothing about the operations of the Foundation other than the fact that it gives out few direct grants, which is not what it does. It performs work with its own forces, rather than giving out money to third parties.
    Try again .
     
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    Is this just politics or are Americans actually this stupid?
     
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    Speaking of stupid, can you count?
    The Clinton Foundation is supposedly a charatuable organization, and yet only 5% of their proceeds go to charatuable acts. Sorry old gal, you can't spin that fact.
     
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    No, over 80% go to charitable acts, 5% being grants
     

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