Posted on 05/03/2017 1:24:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he and Michelle Obama would personally donate $2 million to support summer jobs for Chicago young people this year.
Obama made the announcement while presenting preliminary plans for his presidential library and center in Chicago’s Jackson Park neighborhood. Construction will take four years, but Obama said he wanted the facility to start offering programs immediately.
“We don’t want to wait for a building,” he said. “One of the things that we will be starting this year is Michelle and I personally are going to donate $2 million to our summer jobs programs here in the community, so that right away, young people can get to work and we can start providing opportunities to all of them.”
Obama, who has faced criticism for making paid speeches to Wall Street since leaving the White House, said one reason he wanted his presidential center to begin offering programs is to combat the perception that Chicago is a dangerous city besieged by gun violence.
“As somebody who has not been right here in Chicago over the last couple years, whenever I visit, I tell people, Chicago’s never looked more beautiful. It has, it has never sparkled more,” Obama said....
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They are getting a lot of unearned money from their book deals and speeches. I’d be more impressed by a $2 donation from a poor person.
Taking some Pocahontas and Crazy Bernie heat for those two $400k speaking gigs.
We all know it won’t be their money that’s donated.
So who else thinks that it will be to fund Antifa protests??????
ML/NJ
Towel boys for the bath houses?
I’m not going to rip the poser if he is actually going to give HIS money.
If only fair since the main reason the youths have no jobs is because Chitown is a socialist hellhole that taxes you to death....
I kind of doubt it’s his money...
Big whoop. It’s ‘other people’s money’.
Are they reloading ammo for the gangs?
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