Reply #8: That is not beyond the call [View All]

[Old Mouse]

That is public relations money.

Let them put even 1% of their annual marketing budget, or better yet take their entire illegal campaign donation masquerading as an non-partisan inauguration donation and donate that directly to the aid effort.

I know people who worked for GE in Thailand. A living wage for the last 10 years or so would have grown modernized infrastructure, roads and communications instead of spread shantytowns and slums.

I do realize multinational corporations are not required to give aid at all, but we shouldn't delude ourselves as to their motivation or what public perception they expect in return, or the fact that they should not be allowed to donate to the inauguration event at all.