‘You either help or turn your head’: Florida

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Spike Trader, Sep 10, 2017.

  1. If I owned a store...I wouldn't evacuate with everyone else.

    I would stay at my store...ready to blast anyone that breaks down the door attempting to loot me, o_O

    Shoot them in the face, and set an example/warning for everyone else.
    Post it on social media. Become a shining beacon of light for all people of righteousness.
     
    #31     Sep 10, 2017



  2. Ahhh yess. Nothing sweeter than the smell of free stuff in the morning.
     
    #32     Sep 10, 2017
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

  4. Max E.

    Max E.

    The point i was getting at, which you dont seem to understand, is that hitting someone on their charity work when they have done way more than you is just pure hate, theres lots of things to hit both those guys on, but your hitting them on something where they have done more for society then you or I ever will, its just stupid to hit someone on that level, but if you want to by all means go for it.
     
    #34     Sep 10, 2017
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  5. fhl

    fhl

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    #35     Sep 10, 2017
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    At least 19 looters are arrested across Florida during Irma crime spree: Thieves prompt SWAT standoff after robbing a store for GUNS while others are caught on camera breaking into a sports shop
    • SWAT officers in Orlando detain one suspect after a standoff which began looters broke into Academy Sports trying to steal guns
    • Two groups of looters were caught on camera Sunday ransacking two separate sporting goods stores in hurricane-hit South Florida
    • At least eight people were filmed by an ABC crew breaking into Simon's Sportswear in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
    • The group did so amid Hurricane Irma's destruction across South Florida
    • In midtown Miami, a local reporter watched as at least a dozen looters undertook what appeared to be a well-coordinated theft of a sporting goods shop
    • No one in either group has been identified
    • A Broward County sheriff's deputy shot a teenager and arrested another after they allegedly broke in to a home in the affluent suburb of Weston
    • Fort Lauderdale police announced the arrest of two 28-year-old men who are alleged to have broken into six homes late Saturday night
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-broke-Fort-Lauderdale-clothing-retailer.html
     
    #36     Sep 10, 2017
  7. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    As a % of my net worth,I have probably given more to charity than Trump.

    I also don't rip charities off


    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/york-ags-office-investigating-eric-trumps-charity/story?id=47942804

    New York AG's office investigating Eric Trump's charity

    The New York State Attorney General’s Office said it is investigating the Eric Trump Foundation after questions were raised about the charity in light of a recent media report that it paid high sums to use Trump-owned properties for fundraisers.

    That A.G.’s office is the same one that has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation since the fall and that case remains open.







    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...kids-cancer-charity-funds-business/102565070/


    Trump profited from kids cancer charity, report says

    The Trump Organization took in healthy profits in recent years for hosting a charity golf event to benefit children's cancer research, despite claiming the use of the course had been donated Forbes reported Tuesday.

    Since 2007, President Trump's son Eric Trump has held an annual charity golf event at the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., to raise money for the Eric Trump Foundation on behalf of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Forbes reported. To date, Eric Trump has raised more than $11 million — including $2.9 million last year — for the hospital's research, most of it through the golf tournaments, according to Forbes.

    The costs for the tournaments averaged $50,000 during the first four years, which is about what other charities pay for events at Trump courses. But the expenses quickly began to rise, reaching $322,000 by 2015, Forbes reported, citing IRS filings.

    If accurate, these figures are hard to reconcile with Eric Trump's claims that the charity is able to use the course for free and that many other expenses are donated. "We get to use our assets 100% free of charge," the president's son told Forbes.

    "In reviewing filings from the Eric Trump Foundation and other charities, it's clear that the course wasn't free — that the Trump Organization received payments for its use, part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization," Forbes reported. "Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament."
    In addition, more than $500,000 in donations were given to other charities, "many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses," the magazine reported.

    According to Forbes, the spike in costs for the tournament started in 2011 when Donald Trump insisted the charity begin paying the Trump Organization for the events.

    Ian Gillule, who worked as a membership and marketing director at the Westchester course, told Forbes that Donald Trump was not happy with the expenses the charity wasn't being billed for.

    "Mr. Trump had a cow," Forbes quoted Gillule as saying. "He flipped. He was like, 'We're donating all of this stuff, and there's no paper trail? No credit?' And he went nuts. He said, 'I don't care if it's my son or not — everybody gets billed.'"

    The Donald J. Trump Foundation gave $100,000 to the Eric Trump Foundation to help offset the increase in costs, Gillule told Forbes. That means donors to the Donald J. Trump Foundation — the Trump family had not given money to that foundation for several years — saw $100,000 of their donations pass on as revenue to the Trump Organization by way of charges to the Eric Trump Foundation.

    Eric Trump announced he would stop fundraising in December and is now acting as co-head of the Trump Organization during his father's presidency. The Eric Trump Foundation changed its name to Curetivity and plans to continue to hold charity golf events for St. Jude, Forbes reported.
     
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    #37     Sep 10, 2017
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    I also question Trump's charity giving. Most of his charity "giving" only served to benefit himself.
     
    #38     Sep 10, 2017
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  9. Max E.

    Max E.


    Lets be real here, which one of these billionaires are not serving "Themselves" when it comes to charity? Whether its serving their ego, or serving their brand, i see no difference, i just see someone who is doing more than i ever will. It seems disingenous to hit them on it.

    Based on the metric you guys want to hit Trump on then anyone who isnt stroking a cheque in silence without ever talking about it, is simply serving their own brand.
     
    #39     Sep 10, 2017
  10. fhl

    fhl

    good samaritans bringing back merchandise that the stores lost in the storm


     
    #40     Sep 10, 2017