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sagehen10/19/2019 8:21:09 am PDT

re: #96 Eventual Carrion

So was Jimmy Carter, and they made him sell his peanut farm.

This is one part of the standard Republican playbook that Obama anticipated, and took steps to prevent.

Between his election and his inauguration, he sold ALL his stocks, Put half the money into index funds, the other half into T-Bills.

For the $1,4 million that comes with a Nobel Prize, he donated every single penny to charity, as follows:

- $250,000 to Fisher House, a national nonprofit organization providing accommodation for families of patients receiving medical care at military and Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers.

- $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which was set up in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake to help survivors.

- $125,000 to College Summit, a national nonprofit organization to increase college enrollment rates.

- $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which awards scholarships to promising public high school students.

- $125,000 to the United Negro College Fund.

- $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

_ $125,000 to the American Indian College Fund.

- $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation.

- $100,000 to AfriCare, which promotes health, food security and access to water primarily in Africa.

- $100,000 to the Central Asia Institute, which education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.