Obama Goes Full Clinton Foundation With Series Of $400,000 Wall Street Speeches

Sig said:
Thanks for giving me a brief glimpse inside your thought process, fascinating stuff.
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I'm sure it's no more fascinating than your thought process. The one where "the President who was behind/fully supported Dodd-Frank, the CFPB, and a whole litany of regulation that the banks hated" somehow made huge profits immediately after he began these regulations and have gone on to smother him in gigantic speaking fees after he leaves office.

I'm sure that while you can't quite get your head around my thought process, yours makes perfect sense. To you.
 
gwb-trading said:
Do they spend 60% of their donations on their annual gala?
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Actually probably not too far off. This particular organization's purpose is to bring corporations and farmers together to reduce their environmental impact in a particular area. The workshops and events they hold are the venue by which they accomplish this. They've been pretty effective at accomplishing this by that method. Turns out you can go out and get your hands dirty doing "real" work planting a thousand trees, or you can work with companies to accomplish triple the impact with the same amount of funds. How the modern world works, especially when you start talking about networked individuals and organizations. I can understand that if you're a trader sitting in your home office all day that networking and putting together deals wouldn't seem like "real" work to you. But you sure can accomplish a lot that way, you'd be surprised if you haven't lived in that world, I certainly was.
 
fhl said:
I'm sure it's no more fascinating than your thought process. The one where "the President who was behind/fully supported Dodd-Frank, the CFPB, and a whole litany of regulation that the banks hated" somehow made huge profits immediately after he began these regulations and have gone on to smother him in gigantic speaking fees after he leaves office.

I'm sure that while you can't quite get your head around my thought process, yours makes perfect sense. To you.
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Again, thanks. You continue to illuminate with your comments, a very interesting case study.
 
exGOPer said:
Then get Trump's DOJ to investigate them, your insinuations and accusations have no merit.
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You asserted "More horseshit right wing drivel as usual" in regards to the numbers I provided. The numbers are directly from the Clinton Foundation filings.
 
Sig said:
Actually probably not too far off. This particular organization's purpose is to bring corporations and farmers together to reduce their environmental impact in a particular area. The workshops and events they hold are the venue by which they accomplish this. They've been pretty effective at accomplishing this by that method. Turns out you can go out and get your hands dirty doing "real" work planting a thousand trees, or you can work with companies to accomplish triple the impact with the same amount of funds. How the modern world works, especially when you start talking about networked individuals and organizations. I can understand that if you're a trader sitting in your home office all day that networking and putting together deals wouldn't seem like "real" work to you. But you sure can accomplish a lot that way, you'd be surprised if you haven't lived in that world, I certainly was.
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Holding gala events and going to conferences. Charity work. I'm sure a lot of 'farmers' showed up to those events.

You're descending into 'deep state denial'.
 
fhl said:
Holding gala events and going to conferences. Charity work. You're descending into 'deep state denial'.

LOL
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I don't oppose charities and foundations from holding annual galas for fund raising. In fact most charities do this including our local Foodbank.

However our local Foodbank spends 90% of its donations on directly getting food to people. Only 10% is spent of admin overhead, fund raising, and the costs of hosting a gala.

The problem with the Clinton Foundation is that it percentage of money spent on their gala is simply out of bounds of being reasonable for a charity. In fact the only reason for the Foundation to exist appears to be hosting a gala to promote the Clintons. This is not charity - it is just a vehicle for raising the Clinton stature.
 
Sig said:
Actually probably not too far off. This particular organization's purpose is to bring corporations and farmers together to reduce their environmental impact in a particular area. The workshops and events they hold are the venue by which they accomplish this. They've been pretty effective at accomplishing this by that method. Turns out you can go out and get your hands dirty doing "real" work planting a thousand trees, or you can work with companies to accomplish triple the impact with the same amount of funds. How the modern world works, especially when you start talking about networked individuals and organizations. I can understand that if you're a trader sitting in your home office all day that networking and putting together deals wouldn't seem like "real" work to you. But you sure can accomplish a lot that way, you'd be surprised if you haven't lived in that world, I certainly was.
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What some are perhaps missing is the Clinton Foundation is a lot of initiatives under an umbrella, about 10 different "initiatives". The Carter Center is similar.

Each will have it's own reports so this could be the source of a lot of error in understanding. Read a figure for some branch and apply it to the whole foundation.

The Clinton Global Initiative for example would spend a lot on conferences, that is what it does (edited: or did). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation#Clinton_Global_Initiative_.28CGI.29_and_CGI_U
 
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