You decide whether or not it's a good charity.
In 2011, total contributions and grants amounted to $5,880,657, which includes grants from the Government of about $1,250,000. Salary and compensation amounted to $2,746,768 which also includes administrative cost such as occupancy, which came out to another $452,00, travel expenses of $42,000, legal expenses $40,000 and other expenses amounting to $106,000.
This means only $2.1 million dollars actually went to charitable work, an expense ratio of 64%. Which means almost 30% of every dollar spent goes to an actual charity.
The President picked this charity, so it doesn't surprise me that it's every bit as phony as he is...
You mean to tell me that it's your personal career goal and you do zero research on how non-profits allocate their resources?I do a lot with non-profits, it's one of my personal career goals, and most good ones have around the same rate. There are no 100% contribution non-profits otherwise they wouldn't stay active.
The country has no shortage of people doing nice things. We the country needs are people who are thinking. Clearly we have a shortage of these types of people. If anyone took the time to do any research, we would know that the President's time is better spent doing better things. And if it isn't, he can at least visit a charity which is actually making a differences.I'm not sure why you are trying to make this all out to be a bad thing. You may not agree with the president on a lot of things, and neither do I, but what he did in that room wasn't bad. Him being there for a little while isn't going to shut down a government already in shut down and him spending the 30 minutes in the oval office won't restart it. He did a nice thing, the people appreciated it, it probably motivated them to keep doing selfless work, and to condemn it just comes across as bitter in my opinion.