Percent of revenue donated to charity by the Clinton Foundation? Less than 3%. At my wife’s charity, which is 100% volunteer with NO salaried workers, it is 85%, and the 15% goes to property maintenance expenses and utility bills.
The rich have been using foundations for years to shelter income. It doesn’t matter whether you or the foundation owns the Boeing 747 if you have 1oo% exclusive use of it.
I’m not even close to being a CPA, but even if all the expenses were charitable in nature that doesn’t come close to the claim that 90% of revenues went to charity work.
Don’t get confused about the term ‘charity work’ because you need to speak Clintonese to understand what that really means so that you can stare into the camera in front of the nation during a debate and make the statement that 90% of the Clinton Foundation revenues went to ‘charity work’, and believe you are not lying. “Charity work’ in Clintonese means the work of running the charity not actually giving the money away to charity’s, I mean good God the horror of it all if they were using the money to actually help people.
Doing ‘charity work’ obviously involves a lot of travel, $20 million dollars worth, that’s a lot of expensive travel in a year. Eight million in professional fees to pay the legal teams to keep the ‘charity work’ looking legit. Two million in IT expenses to keep the ‘charity work’ e-mails bleached. And the biggie #34 mil of salaries, directors fees and benefits for doing all the ‘charity work’.
You see when you add it all up 90% did go to ‘charity work’ after all, and all this time you thought Hiliary was feeding you bullshit. Christ I might be able to get a job at CNN in the spin room……
It used to be that US charity organizations were required to spend 5% of their holdings annually. It may still be this way, and likely is. Decent charities spend this (or more) on whatever they were created to address, with minimal expenditures on whatever operating expenses they have.
Other charities (in name only) spend the vast majority of their funds on expenses – ridiculous salaries for executives, trips to various places for their executives, perks for their executives, etc. – with little, if anything, being spent on whatever issue the charity nominally exists to address. This may be how a half-billion dollars in donations only resulted in the construction of six houses for earthquake victims: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/red-cross-haiti-report_n_7511080.html
I wonder if Red Cross gave money to third party actors in Haiti that stole some of it, and kicked back some of it to RC executives? I’d really love to know if this is actually what happened there, ideally with legally palatable documentation.
It is a charity. It’s just that the Clintons are the main beneficiary, and they are poor, really poor. Of course, that depends on what your definition of poor is.
Ya! I’m down to my last 5o mil. Oh! The inhumanity of it all. Poor, poor, poor!
maxer's mom
October 27, 2016 11:03 pm
Shameful Shite/these people are vile
Maggie
October 28, 2016 12:46 am
Edge of the chair stuff going on, isn’t it?
hardscrabble farmer
October 28, 2016 7:59 am
I bet it galls them to have to give that much away.
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October 28, 2016 9:29 am
Sure, the Clintons are in the “charity” business, kinda like the Corleones were in the “olive oil” business.
getouttahere
October 28, 2016 10:56 am
Two million for IT expenses, now I find that hard to believe perhaps they probably run it from a server in the bathroom?
james the deplorable wanderer
October 28, 2016 1:34 pm
They need those IT expenses to keep track of all the lies they tell.
Back in PA Mike
October 28, 2016 1:43 pm
No one has mentioned the $86,000,000 profit. Who gets that???
nkit
October 28, 2016 2:09 pm
The depth of the Clinton’s greed is seemingly bottomless. Shortly after the 130MPH winds of Hurricane Matthew shredded parts of Haiti and killed hundreds of people a few weeks ago, Willie Clinton tweeted out that people wanting to help should go to the Clinton Foundation website and make a donation there. After the Clinton’s grand theft following the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, one would think that these serial grifters might look for another tree to bark up, especially given the fact that so many Haitians are on to their ruse and have no use for them.
Tony
October 28, 2016 3:06 pm
How about $2 mil in office expenses and $13 mil in other unexplained expenses. Disgraceful!! These people have no heart at all and belong on the gallows.
General
October 28, 2016 6:56 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised, if a few of those millions went to Epstein’s Island.
Percent of revenue donated to charity by the Clinton Foundation? Less than 3%. At my wife’s charity, which is 100% volunteer with NO salaried workers, it is 85%, and the 15% goes to property maintenance expenses and utility bills.
My fury builds.
The rich have been using foundations for years to shelter income. It doesn’t matter whether you or the foundation owns the Boeing 747 if you have 1oo% exclusive use of it.
Hey! The Clinton Foundation has a lot of expenses. You wouldn’t understand that.
Holy Cow! I’m in the wrong business.
I could hardly believe this. so I looked.
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/sites/default/files/clinton_foundation_report_public_2014.pdf
Well, OK, the numbers are legit, the “charity” not so much.
I’m not even close to being a CPA, but even if all the expenses were charitable in nature that doesn’t come close to the claim that 90% of revenues went to charity work.
Don’t get confused about the term ‘charity work’ because you need to speak Clintonese to understand what that really means so that you can stare into the camera in front of the nation during a debate and make the statement that 90% of the Clinton Foundation revenues went to ‘charity work’, and believe you are not lying. “Charity work’ in Clintonese means the work of running the charity not actually giving the money away to charity’s, I mean good God the horror of it all if they were using the money to actually help people.
Doing ‘charity work’ obviously involves a lot of travel, $20 million dollars worth, that’s a lot of expensive travel in a year. Eight million in professional fees to pay the legal teams to keep the ‘charity work’ looking legit. Two million in IT expenses to keep the ‘charity work’ e-mails bleached. And the biggie #34 mil of salaries, directors fees and benefits for doing all the ‘charity work’.
You see when you add it all up 90% did go to ‘charity work’ after all, and all this time you thought Hiliary was feeding you bullshit. Christ I might be able to get a job at CNN in the spin room……
Thanks for splaining it so clearly, peaceout. Nice work. Where’s IS? GREAT DAY FOR OUR SIDE. All Bundy related charges in Oregon, ‘NOT GUILTY’! Jury of your peers can work wonders at times. And this guy 12 days away. http://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2016/01/07/trump-nevada-us-need-president-who-obeys-rule-law/78422530/
It used to be that US charity organizations were required to spend 5% of their holdings annually. It may still be this way, and likely is. Decent charities spend this (or more) on whatever they were created to address, with minimal expenditures on whatever operating expenses they have.
Other charities (in name only) spend the vast majority of their funds on expenses – ridiculous salaries for executives, trips to various places for their executives, perks for their executives, etc. – with little, if anything, being spent on whatever issue the charity nominally exists to address. This may be how a half-billion dollars in donations only resulted in the construction of six houses for earthquake victims: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/red-cross-haiti-report_n_7511080.html
I wonder if Red Cross gave money to third party actors in Haiti that stole some of it, and kicked back some of it to RC executives? I’d really love to know if this is actually what happened there, ideally with legally palatable documentation.
It’s probably not an isolated incident.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/clinton-foundation-what-happened-money-haiti-1587847
It is a charity. It’s just that the Clintons are the main beneficiary, and they are poor, really poor. Of course, that depends on what your definition of poor is.
Ya! I’m down to my last 5o mil. Oh! The inhumanity of it all. Poor, poor, poor!
Shameful Shite/these people are vile
Edge of the chair stuff going on, isn’t it?
I bet it galls them to have to give that much away.
Sure, the Clintons are in the “charity” business, kinda like the Corleones were in the “olive oil” business.
Two million for IT expenses, now I find that hard to believe perhaps they probably run it from a server in the bathroom?
They need those IT expenses to keep track of all the lies they tell.
No one has mentioned the $86,000,000 profit. Who gets that???
The depth of the Clinton’s greed is seemingly bottomless. Shortly after the 130MPH winds of Hurricane Matthew shredded parts of Haiti and killed hundreds of people a few weeks ago, Willie Clinton tweeted out that people wanting to help should go to the Clinton Foundation website and make a donation there. After the Clinton’s grand theft following the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, one would think that these serial grifters might look for another tree to bark up, especially given the fact that so many Haitians are on to their ruse and have no use for them.
How about $2 mil in office expenses and $13 mil in other unexplained expenses. Disgraceful!! These people have no heart at all and belong on the gallows.
I wouldn’t be surprised, if a few of those millions went to Epstein’s Island.