Really? That's wonderful. Two million dollars in Chicago will go a long way towards crime scene cleanup jobs.
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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Now we know where some of that Iranian cash went.
Really? That's wonderful. Two million dollars in Chicago will go a long way towards crime scene cleanup jobs.
Let us please see the proof they do this.
Barack Obama said Wednesday that he and Michelle Obama would personally donate $2 million to support summer jobs for Chicago young people this year.
Make Work Jobs that will require No Skills or Performance, nothing like Crippling them when they are down hey.
bullet-proof vests would be more appropriate
Obama ought to know. As our first gay president - he knows what sparkle is.
Aw, ya beat me to it.
I’m sure they’ll also be teaching some lefty-liberal-lies along with this “donation”.
That $2 million only amounts to around 3% of their book deals.
BFD. At $400,000 a lecture, that’s like me putting a dollar in the collection plate every Sunday.
I think you will find it full of summer internships to ultra left wing groups. how much for real summer jobs I wonder
There will be many no-show jobs,but it will all look great on paper.
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follow the money
Darn it! I was all set to say that myself!
***Knock Out Game Funding ALERT***
Broom ready jobs
Rioting is getting expensive.
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