Both Bush and Obama have non profit foundations, but...

So why are they asking people to send money to fund the World Health Organization after Trump defunded it? Just who are they targeting to send them money? Rich people or the people who have no disposable income because they are unemployed? And why can't they dip their hands into their billion dollar tax exempt foundations where they have parked their money so they don't have to pay taxes on it. We have covered how bogus the Clinton foundation is where their main expense is to help get AIDS drugs to people in Africa. You know the ones that have shown not to work? Yeah I am sure that the Saudis, Israel, and other countries that gave millions to the CGI during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State which she then intervened in their issues before the state department.

But Hey Laura and Michelle why not do a fundraiser to help the 22 million number of people here in America instead of an organization that is getting funding from all the countries that were before Trump stopped America's? This is as tone deaf as the Biden campaign highlighting the people in Hollywood behind the scenes instead of the millions of gig workers that might not be eligible for unemployment here in the United States of America?

Or for the small businesses who couldn't get a loan because companies like Shake Shack, Ruth's Steak house and other large chains got them first? Shake Shack go $10 million, but after bad publicity they have decided to return the loans. Why did they have their hands out in the first place and send their lobbyists to get them? And for gawd's sake why did the banks get $7 billion to over see the loan program and then off loaded them to the Fed because they might be worthless in the future?

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Raggedy Ann's picture

is because they excel at using other people's money. Pleasantry

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boriscleto's picture

If you want to donate to the Coronavirus relief fund. It's not clear what this fund is or why the world's richest man needs customers to donate to it.

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wendy davis's picture

WHO was in effect: China's bitch, but the bill & melinda gates foundation funds over half of it. to tweak an old joke:

'What's the difference between Gawd and Bill Gates?'

Gawd doesn't believe she's Bill Gates.'

their foundation also own the Guardian's 'global health and development' tab on the front page. billy also got the current WHO director Tedros ___ appointed.

but spot on on your excellent 'why not this?' rant, snoopy dawg. by the by, michelle's visage was creepy-bo-peepy, wot?

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But there was a time, I think, before Bill G. got involved anyway, where the WHO did a lot of good. They funded a good bit of World Health and epidemiology research both here in the US and in many 3rd world countries. For our work, there was funding, if I recall correctly, that had to do with the "great neglected diseases" (e.g. malaria, sleeping sickness etc.) where they funded top level research on diseases that pharma wouldn't touch because there was no $$ return expected from poorer countries.
We had postdocs years ago in a lab long gone (where I was a postdoc as well) who came from several African countries, all came here to the US to do research funded by WHO fellowships.
Looking back, I can see that some would say this was just more vestiges of colonialism and was inherently evil, but hell, we did some good things with their money I think.
Is USAID and NED all CIA now? And WHO has been taken over by China? It doesn't have to be this way. We should be leading in research, testing, vaccine development etc. We should be sending folks to other countries helping with these things, but instead Cuba is the only one sending expertise abroad. Wow.

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Cassiodorus's picture

if the Postal Service disappears.

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