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"Bill Gates is a favorite target as one of the "bad" rich. But really who "gives back" more to the community? Oprah does entertainment and creates a few jobs."

As far as I'm concerned, Bill Gates is a national hero. Many, many people have jobs as a result of his efforts. I would even say that the jobs created, both directly and indirectly by him, number in the tens of millions. And, to his credit, a corrupt justice department and the evil woman who headed it were unable to bring him down.

I agree. However, I'll go a bit farther. That idiotic anti-trust suit was brought by Gate's competitors (so how can he be a monopoly?) and was the trigger that burst the economic bubble. High teck was the driving force in the economy and Microsoft was the engine.

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I was just reading a National Geographic magazine from 1980 and there was an ad for a Smith/Corona typewriter. The ad showed parents taking a kid to college and the father proudly carrying the typewriter into the dorm so that his daughter could "be proud of her work." While many of the other ads from that edition could be re-run today (with perhaps a little editing), that typewriter ad is about as out of place today as a 1900 ad for a horse buggy.

I think that ad illustrates just how much the world has changed over the past quarter century. At the time of the ad, Bill Gates was just getting Microsoft off the ground. Like him or not, he certainly did change the world and did more than anybody else to bring the personal computer into practically every home in the Western world. The amount of jobs that were created and the amount of wealth that has been created by the computer industry since 1980 is probably incalculable.

Even if Gates didn't give a nickel to "charity", he'd have contributed more to society than all these self-righteous Hollywood blabbermouths combined.

Were Bill Gates not arguably the world's largest private financier of infanticide, I would agree with you.

There are far more liberals amongst the very rich than there are conservatives.

I am trying but will probably run out of time. I would like to personally be one more "evil conservative industrialist"...lol.....for our side.