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Re: Investigating the Clinton Foundation
Posted by **Hippie J** on Aug 15, 2013 at 5:30:13 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Investigating the Clinton Foundation posted by **Spiggy Topes** on Aug 14, 2013 at 6:44:16 PM:
**NY Times : Clinton Foundation Rife with Cronyism
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**On Wednesday, the New York Times ran a blistering investigative report revealing the Clinton Foundation as a nonprofit rife with crony capitalist conflicts of interest and multi-million dollar deficits despite raking in at least $492 million from 1997 to 2007.
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**In 2007 and 2008, the Clinton Foundation, which is soon to be renamed the “Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation,” ran a $40 million deficit. Last year, it ran a deficit of over $8 million despite the Foundation and two subsidiaries generating $214 million in revenues.
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*Read a commentary in the Telegraph about this NYT "hit peice" earlier on......the last paragraph says it all really.......
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*"It's nothing new to report that there's an unhealthy relationship in America between money and politics, but it's there all the same. While the little people are getting hit with Obamacare, high taxes and joblessness, a class of businessmen enjoys ready access to politicians of both Left and Right that poses troubling questions for how the republic can continue to call itself a democracy so long as it functions as an aristocracy of the monied. Part of the reason why America's elites get away with it is becuase they employ such fantastic salesmen. For too long now, Bill Clinton has pitched himself, almost without question, as a homespun populist: the Boy from Hope. The reality is that this is a man who – in May 1993 – prevented other planes from landing at LAX for 90 minues while he got a haircut from a Beverley Hills hairdresser aboard Air Force One. The Clintons are populists in the same way that Barack Obama is a Nobel prize winner. Oh, wait…"
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*I think JFK was the last one who tried to stand up to it..... :(
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and the class divide is growing - check out my PSA post on obamacare - it's about to get even uglier
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