He gives his money away except to his employees. He likes indentured servants from west Asia.
Microsoft has given The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over a BILLION dollars of MICROSOFT money (not the donations from the employees, that is a BILLION DOLLARS OF MATCHING FUNDS FROM MICROSOFT'S OWN FINANCIAL RESOURCES to the foundation.
WHAT YOU SEE BELOW IS DATA I HAVE LOOKED AT ON THE INTERNET BY GOING DIRECTLY TO THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES WEBSITE AND DOWNLOADING THEIR OWN DOCUMENTATION.
I did not make this up or take it from some blogger. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is quite proud of the money they get from these corporations, so while it took a little scratching to get to it, it is available to everyone to see with their own eyes.
Microsoft does a 1:1 match (or at least did a year or two when I looked this up) and gave $47 Million dollars to the foundation in 2014. (Since they began matching, they have given over a billion dollars. THAT IS A BILLION DOLLARS...I believe that is matching money, probably not including their corporate donations)
Other top donors to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are Apple, Exxon Mobile (Exxon Mobile gave over $269 million in 2014), GE, Soros Fund Management, GAP, State Street, Car Max, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Chevron, Disney, Google, The Home Depot, JP Morgan, Merck, Starbucks, State Farm and Verizon.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in turn, gives money to the following (note this is the Foundation money donated to it from all sources, not just money directly from Microsoft):
Organization - Amount (US$ millions)
Some of those might not be bad, but there are some very bad ones.
For example, The Clinton Health Access Initiative. That is only a measly $199.5 million dollars. But that has been shown to be almost totally if not a total fraud and scam. How many of these others have large parts of their organizations that are equally corrupt? UNICEF? WHO? The International Bank?The United Nations Foundation????
The Rotary Foundation? Might not be bad, but WHO does The Rotary Foundation give money to? I haven't checked that.
Cornell, University of Oxford, John Hopkins et al might not be bad either, but that is open to debate when one sees what goes on in institutions of higher education.
But the rest of them look like a Murderer's Row of liberal, anti-American Entities, and few of us are going to argue that: World Health Organization, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, United States Fund for UNICEF, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UNICEF Headquarters, Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc, International Development Association, CARE, World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, United Nations Foundation, Population Services International, and so on. (The ones I didn't know anything about such as the International Food Policy Research Institute might not be in the "Murderer's Row", but that might be only because I didn't look.
Microsoft ALONE has given over a BILLION dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which simply disburses that money to the entities above (and many others NOT listed) to whom that money is not just a symbol of a player disrespecting the flag or national anthem, BUT IS REAL OPERATIONAL FUNDING.
I have seen the result of this operational funding WITH MY OWN EYES down in Washington DC at protests. Large buses parked in rows, protesters being handed professionally pre-printed signs as they get off, and though I have not seen the transactions myself, liberal anti-American protesters being paid a stipend to participate. SOMEONE pays for the protest permits. SOMEONE pays for all of this.
I remember standing with a bunch of conservative counter-protesters, looking at all these buses and signs, and all of us wondering aloud in discussion who pays for it, eventually mumbling it is MoveOn.org, Soros, or whatever.
But you know the REAL answer of "who pays for this?" It is Apple, Exxon Mobile, GE, Soros Fund Management, GAP, State Street, Car Max, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Chevron, Disney, Google, The Home Depot, JP Morgan, Merck, Starbucks, State Farm and Verizon, just to name a few. THESE ARE THE TOP 20 from 2014 ALONE.