To Help US Veterans Charity, George W. Bush Charged $100,000

[cosmicone]

Source: abc news/Yahoo

Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.

The former President was also provided with a private jet to travel to Houston at a cost of $20,000, the officials said.

The charity, which helps to provide specially-adapted homes for veterans who lost limbs and suffered other severe injuries in “the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the total $170,000 expenditure was justified because the former President and First Lady offered discounted fees and helped raise record amounts in contributions at galas held in 2011 and 2012.

“It was great because he reduced his normal fee of $250,000 down to $100,000,” said Meredith Iler, the former chairman of the charity.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/help-us-veterans-charity-george-w-bush-charged-225504539.html

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Dubya has no shame, no remorse, no conscience, no intellect ....

[LibDemAlways]

1. He was responsible for the injuries. He should have

quietly donated a huge sum and stayed the hell away.

[Nuh Uh]

2. I'm furious over this

What kind of man sends you to war and then profits off your misery? Just how many prosthetic devices would $170,000 put on legless and armless heroes?

[Snotcicles]

10. What a despicable cretin. nt

[mpcamb]

17. Charity Navigator issued a watch about Helping a Hero Org

I couldn't bring up a rating (% of income that goes to actual help) but they came under scrutiny and were named in lawsuits last year.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=14973#.VZ5qimBjHHh

[tazkcmo]

23. I personally don't need a warning.

Glad there is one for the folks that are less informed but just the fact these idiots invited W is reason enough not to donate to this "charity", even if he had waived the whole fee instead of the standard "military discount".

[MsMAC]

21. A man with the last name of BUSH!

Let's not let this happen again - NO MORE UNNECESSARY BUSH WARS.

[fnv74]

30. They knew it

Soldiers face bullets and bombs during training.

[calimary]

3. Wow - that was big of him. Cutting his quarter-MILLION-dollar fee down to 100K.

Gee, Diamond Jim, that was might big of ya. Wonder how much they could have helped a disabled veteran with that money - rather than showering it on the man who sent them over to Hell to get their lives permanently changed and their legs blown off. Assuming they were "lucky" enough to survive in the first place.

He is lower than shit.

[jaysunb]

4. So what. It's all another scam on gulible rubes anyway.

Veterans have the VA at their disposal. What's needed, is a more equitable distribution of our tax dollars, to expand and support the nations commitment to it's promise. That, would insure that scams like this would not have room to fleece.

[Nuh Uh]

7. While I agree with a commitment to it's promise

the last appointment I had with the VA took 48 days. They have a very long way to go before they meet their obligations to soldiers.

[jaysunb]

8. Like I said, "fully fund the VA and more."

There should be no reason for the sort of problem you're experiencing, but there are people and profits being served before the people it promised to care for.
btw, I hope you get the service you need sooner than later. SALUTE !!

[George II]

5. The man is a freaking multi-millionaire (most of which he didn't earn himself)

And he's charging them?

Why would that organization want him to speak in the first place?

[SusanCalvin]

20. Isn't that disgusting?

The rich are different from you and me.

[jmowreader]

6. Why would anyone pay a man who can't string a sentence together $250k to speak?

[SoapBox]

9. It's really offensive.

The never ending greed of these people disgusts me.

[FairWinds]

11. I Would Look into "Help a Hero" . .

not to mention some of the "Wounded Warrior" charities
(there are apparently more than one), not to mention the "US Navy
Veterans Assoc." - many of which are outrageous frauds, esp. the latter,
that pocket the donations and funnel cash to GOP candidates.

GRRRRRRR !!!

Veterans For Peace

[madamvlb]

13. I think most are fraudulent. I'm a vet and have some vet buddies with severe injuries

From the war Dubya started, not one one them has received anything from anyone outside of the Veterans Administration. These groups come out in droves around Memorial Day this year. Everyone is dropping money in those buckets!!!

[Geronimoe]

12. Title of his speech... Comedy of Errors

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Were they able to find a single person with a brain or soul that would sit and listen to him?

[Vinca]

14. That's too disgusting for words.

I'm betting it's all a bunch of scamsters profiting off injured vets. In that case, Dubya fits right in.

[Hoppy]

15. Dubwa. What a piece of shit! Yeah, I know. Redundent.

[Hoppy]

16. I recall early in his first term, Dubya mentioned Ronnie Raygun getting a coupla hundred K

per speech. "I'm going to get me some of that when I leave office."

Then there was Limpballs, comparing Raygun and his speaking fees with Jimmy Carter building houses. (Paraphrase) No one wants to pay to hear him so he is reduced to putting nails in roofs.


My favorite summation of the Carter administration is that during his time in office, there wasn't a shell fired in anger.

[Sunlei]

18. republicans are pros at gaming the 'charity' regs. to the detriment of real charity non-profits.

[Nitram]

19. God damn greedy chicken hawk.

[heaven05]

22. ??????

What mean, mean persons he and his wife are. Truly disgusting human beings, with the blood of millions on HIS hands. He'll never be able to wash it off or be rehabilitated from that horror. They are trying though. Just won't come clean. Stained beyond redemption.

[valerief]

24. How pigs live in their piggy world. nt

[Angry Dragon]

25. No soul

but I do not blame him----- he does have that Nazi banker blood running through him

[yurbud]

26. what a class act.

[olddad56]

27. so, evidently since he left office, he has learned to speak? Who would have guessed?

[question everything]

28. Saw a clip on ABC News earlier. A veteran says that Bush sent him to war

and now he wants money.

Really no shame.

Bill Clinton says that he'd never charged veteran organizations.

[fnv74]

29. To Help US Veterans Charity, George W. Bush Charged $100,000

So what is the problem ?