What do you think of Warren Buffet?

vanity ^ | 8-17-2003 | self

[farmer18th]

I suppose I took an interest in Warren Buffet when my wife discovered, courtesy of a newspaper account in the mid 1980s, that a college friend of mine was the son of Warren's Vice Chairman, Charlie Munger. Up to that point, he seemed to be essentially what the media portrayed him to be: a fantasticly successful investor with a home-spun wit.

His sinister side, of course, came out this week with his proposition 13 comments, and it brought to mind the other public part of his life, unrelated to investing and finance. He apparently gives very little to charity and what he does give he gives to world wide population control.

Conservatives, rightly so, tend to admire those who manage their money well and succeed in business, but it occurs to me that the example of Warren Buffet is one we need to study more closely. He seems an almost perfect contemporary example of Dicken's Ebeneezer Scrooge--self-made, self-satisfied, and downright Malthusian. There are certain self-made men who believe that because they have managed money well, they are then entitled to manage you well. Instead of risking their fortunes for the common good--as in the examples of Hancock, Washington, and Jefferson--they use their bank accounts to eradicate as many of the commoners as possible. ("Why can't you pay higher property taxes? I can.")

Let's talk about Baron Von Buffet. Is he American, or is he the Anti-Christ?

[ChadGore]

I think Arnold is attracting some of the best talent out there, and that will be good for California.

[NativeNewYorker]

Most over-rated man in the history of finance.

[farmer18th]

I think Arnold is attracting some of the best talent out there

I'm curious about your sterile choice of the word, "talent." Would balancing the budget by any "talented" method be okay with you? Raising taxes is okay for "talented" person but not okay for someone else?

[madprof98]

From the Center for Reclaiming America:

Warren Buffet serves as one of the abortion industry’s top financiers. In 2002, Buffet donated over $11 million to the abortion industry. In 2001, Buffett donated over $9 million to Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest abortion provider.

According to Business Week, the Buffett foundation made a $20 million commitment to International Projects Assistance Services, a company that actually manufactures suction pumps used in abortion procedures. Steve Mosher, director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, spoke on behalf of pro-life shareholders at the Berkshire Hathaway, “It’s the money to actually do the abortions… the nuts and bolts, the hard stuff that he funds.”

I could not in conscience vote for anyone who trusts this guy for advice.

[RightWhale]

Arnold is attracting some of the best talent out there

Maybe so. Offering to raise taxes is not the most brilliant political campaign move.

[farmer18th]

I could not in conscience vote for anyone who trusts this guy for advice.

Oh, but he's so "talented."

[CONSERVE]

Major lib.

[Crusader21stCentury]

I think Arnold is attracting some of the best talent out there, and that will be good for California.
If you like left wing socialist trash. LOL

[BlackElk]

Warren Buffett has announced that he will leave his entire $1 billion + estate to (drum roll): Planned Parenthood, thereby furthering the goal of America's leading force for the death by mutilation of unborn innocents. Other than hoping, therefor, that Buffett may die penniless in a pauper's home lest a nickel go to Baby Murder, Inc., I really don't need to know anything more.

Then I learn via the internet that Buffett is Schwarzenkennedy's "financial advisor" that he thinks Proposition 13 is a bad idea (presumably because it protects other folks from tax hikes also, that he was in love politically with the Arkansas Antichrist and the Scwarzenkennedy describes him as his HERO and as his MENTOR. AAAAAARGH. Enough of the entire curious crew.

[farmer18th]

Warren Buffett has announced that he will leave his entire $1 billion + estate to (drum roll): Planned Parenthood

The interesting thing is that Charlie Munger, another Planned Parenthood benefactor, has--I think--seven children. Perhaps what they believe in is eugenics?

[Enterprise]

"What do you think of Warren Buffet?"

Who? Warren Buffoon? Never heard of him.

[OpusatFR]

He's another of the oligarchy.

Superrich Buffett in league with others like Soros and Gates who think that since they have megabucks they also have the wisdom from the foundations of the earth.

Never works for long.....and Soros is simply annoying.

[nmh]

I think you sized him up right. He's a stingy liberal who could care less about anyone else.

[AdvisorB]

When I think of Warren Buffet, I think of Buffets' last
minute, eleventh hour endorsement of that guy that
invented the internet. I thought at the time that no
matter how much money this guy has made, you can't shine sh$t.

[Tax-chick]

I pray for his conversion every day ... he doesn't have many years left before he faces the Man. Illustration of the banality of evil ...

[csvset]

Some people say
There's a woman to blame...
But I know...
It's my own damn fault..

Oh, I thought this was about Jimmy Buffet.

[nmh]

"I think--seven children. Perhaps what they believe in is eugenics?"

But of course! He's allowed to have children since he is head and shoulders above the rest of us. It's the impoverished and those he doesn't like that should NOT have children.

[farmer18th]

I think you sized him up right. He's a stingy liberal who could care less about anyone else.

I think it might actually be worse than that. In human affairs, you rarely see the face of pure, unrestrained evil. You see good intentioned people on missions of ignorance. Warren, on the other hand, with his vast wealth and vastly evil intentions, seems much closer to an arch-demon--and I'm not speaking rhetorically.

[NeoCaveman]

What I think of taxes are too low Buffett.... Typing such extreme profanities would get me banned. LOL

OTOH I like Jimmy Buffett