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Ron Paul’s record beat John Kerry’s record that came two days after the Super Tuesday primaries in 2004. This makes Paul’s online fundraising effort largest single day online fund raising effort in history by a presidential candidate.

www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=151377

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's amazing to me how many naive people are willing to throw away their hard-earned money to give to these smarmy, ego-centric political candidates.

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Originally posted by SergeantX:
It looks to top 4 million before all is said and done.

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Originally posted by Early:
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It's amazing to me how many naive people are willing to throw away their hard-earned money to give to these smarmy, ego-centric political candidates.

I hope you aren't including Ron Paul in that description.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Better to use you money to buy Firefly stuff.

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In the wake of a controversial $1.5 million pension payout to a former chief executive, the United Way of America is changing its rules to prevent such payments from happening again. The CEO, Betty Stanley Beene, had served in the post from late 1997 to 2001. The $1.5 million payment was disclosed in recent United Way tax filings, according to the Washington Post.
http://compensation.blr.com/display.cfm/id/150237

More than a decade ago, the $463,000 annual compensation of the president of the United Way of America sparked unprecedented scrutiny of charities throughout the nation. But as corporate scandals involving Enron and WorldCom grabbed headlines, salaries at nonprofits faded from the spotlight. Now, once again, nonprofit organizations are attracting scrutiny. Just last year, the IRS launched an investigation into tax exempt organizations to put an end to excessive compensation and benefits.
www.sptimes.com/2005/08/15/Business/He_s_the_highest_paid.shtml

Mr. Grassley, a federal grand jury, and the U.S. Department of Labor are all investigating the United Way of the National Capital Area, in Washington, which has been gripped by a controversy for the past year that began with charges that its former chief executive was paid an overly generous consulting contract after he left that job. Oral Suer was paid $72,000 over 12 months after retiring as chief executive, and gained another $200,000 when he was allowed to take his pension two years before he retired, The Washington Post has reported.
www.philanthropy.com/free/articles/v14/i24/24003301.htm

Information concerning a major accounting and fiscal scandal at the United Way of the National Capital Area continues to trickle out. An ongoing criminal investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia. Several investigative elements of the federal government have been involved at varying stages of this ongoing investigation, including the U.S. Department of Labor auditors, the FBI, and auditors from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The United Way is a network of over 2,000 local organizations that raises over $3 billion a year for charity. United Way Board of Governors set up an independent investigation of the allegations against the chief executive officer, William Aramony. After a two year investigation, Mr. Aramony was indicted by a federal grand jury of conspiring to defraud the United Way, filing false tax returns and falsifying records to hide the diversion of money, [and] following a lengthy and well-publicized trial, Mr. Aramony was found guilty of 25 felony charges and was sentenced to seven years in prison. The Washington Post in an August 17th article entitled "Dealings of Charity Executive Concealed," by staff writers Peter Whoriskey and Jacqueline L. Salmon, points out that, "The financial dealings of Oral Suer, the former United Way chief accused in an audit last week of taking more than $1.5 million in questionable payments from the local charity, were first flagged by auditors more than 15 years ago but remained a closely held secret among a handful of prominent board members even as the losses mounted over time, audits and interviews show."
www.etherzone.com/2003/lang082903.shtml

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Originally posted by SergeantX:
It's a great day to be a Ron Paul supporter.

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...in just a mere couple of months it'll all be over for him.

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But the good fight is still worth fighting.

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...in just a mere couple of months it'll all be over for him.

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Probably. Maybe sooner than that.

S'Okay, I'm used to the bad guys winning. But the good fight is still worth fighting.

SergeantX

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
Firefly fans, of all people, should understand that.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Umm, you DO realize someone has to pay for all this insanity, right ?

By not raising taxes, politicians of today are simply eyeballing your children (who might I note, cannot vote yet) with the intent of dumping this massive crushing debt on THEM.

You wanna talk about taxation without representation, there it is in spades - they did not ask for it, could not vote against it, and paying that monster debt down will financially cripple and destroy many of em.

And you wonder why they hate us....

-Frem

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Having grown up with stagflation, and economists predicting that I would be paying for it, and my descendants, for over 100 years, yet during the 90's most of it disappeared, I would be leary of believing that.

The whole point of the presidency is to draw attention from the real power - congress. They are the onese who make the laws, who vote the laws in, and who decide what is what. The president suggests, but can't even submit his own bill. I don't care for any of the candidates - self absorbed power seekers- because in the long run it doesn't matter. When we can get a person who actually BELIEVES in helping the nation not himself, then we will finally have a candidate worth looking at.


"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain

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Originally posted by gorramgroupie:
I don't care for any of the candidates - self absorbed power seekers- because in the long run it doesn't matter. When we can get a person who actually BELIEVES in helping the nation not himself, then we will finally have a candidate worth looking at.

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