Is The Gates Foundation Involved in Bribery?

[Donnachaidh]

http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-gates-foundation-involved-in-bribery.html

An online legal dictionary defines bribery this way:

"The offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of something of value for the purpose of influencing the action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal duties."

When we think of bribery we usually envision a check or cash being passed on the sly to public officials. But what if it is right out in the open, concealed only by the fact that the briber is a foundation created by Bill Gates rather than some back street shyster?

Here is how a news story describes it: "Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions to influence how the federal government distributes $5 billion in grants to overhaul public schools. The federal dollars are unprecedented, too. President Barack Obama persuaded Congress to give him the money as part of the economic stimulus so he could try new ideas to fix an education system that most agree is failing. The foundation is offering $250,000 apiece to help states apply, so long as they agree with the foundation's approach."

If you or I did something like this, even at an infinitesimally smaller scale, we could likely be headed for prison. It is a criminal act to use money to influence official positions in such a manner.

And it gets worse, as the story related: "Duncan's inner circle includes two former Gates employees. His chief of staff is Margot Rogers, who was special assistant to Gates' education director. James Shelton, assistant deputy secretary, was a program director for Gates' education division. . .The administration has waived ethics rules to allow Rogers and Shelton to deal more freely with the foundation, but Rogers said she talks infrequently with her former colleagues."


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[NJmaverick]

1. Just this morning I "bribed" my gas station to give me gasoline

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Gates is funding teacher bonuses in DC

They are in the new contract. If Gates pulls his funding, that district will go bankrupt honoring that contract.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Isn't every big donor to our political system involved in bribery?

Why pick on the guy trying to help the little people?

Why not ask if BP is involved in bribery?

[LWolf]

4. He isn't helping any little people in education. nt

[Starry Messenger]

5. They should have just made Gates the SOE.

That would have been more honest, at any rate. Cut out the middle-man.