Z-Elder posted:
"The foundation has been the Romneys' main vehicle for giving, whether to keep the lights on with a $10,000 check to a homeless shelter for veterans that couldn't pay its electric bill or to send relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina ($10,000) and the South Asia earthquake and tsunami ($25,000).
The GOP presidential hopeful has donated $127,000 in proceeds from his 2010 campaign book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." Seven charities serving children, cancer and MS patients and severely wounded veterans got donations ranging from $10,000 to nearly $33,000.
The businessman-turned-politician has also foregone payment for work he did as governor and as head of the Olympics.
As head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney took no salary for three years while donating $1 million to the games. Later, while he was entitled to $135,000 annually as governor of Massachusetts, he drew a salary of $1 a year for serving as the state's chief executive. And while he hasn't explicitly said so this time around, Romney vowed during his last campaign for the White House that, if elected, he would donate his $400,000 salary as president to charity.
While her husband was forgoing a paycheck, Ann Romney donated her time to a variety of causes. She has worked as a board member of New England Chapter of the MS Society to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, the disease with which she was diagnosed in 1998, and has been a long-time supporter of the United Way of Massachusetts. She also has served as director of the Best Friends Foundation, a controversial program that promotes abstinence-only sex education for inner-city girls.
Excluding gifts to the Mormon Church and BYU, the Romney foundation typically donated a bit more than $200,000 annually to charities over the last decade"
Evil!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/mitt-romney-gives-million_n_924414.html
I also hear his company Bain Capital also made a shitload of people jobless, for efficiency sake.. I mean he and his made an investment they should make exuberant amounts of money on that, which they pay almost no taxes on and then the company they front goes bankrupt because of the loans they took in it's name, but they the investment firm still makes 300 mil, which they pay almost no taxes on. -is this the gist of the matter? I could be wrong, I so need to study economics when I get back to college.
The American way is really ingenious a system that lets the rich first of all exploit the weak and the laboring masses, then the rich people pay lobbyists who sees to it that that restrictions are never put in place to give the working class some leverage.. After that the rich more or less controls the propaganda which sees to it that the laboring masses actually fights for the rights of the poor rich guys.
It's quite brilliant and will probably end in extreme bloodshed the day the fat masses of uneducated Americans actually realize that that they're being used.
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