Posted on 06/25/2014 6:41:09 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
It certainly isn't breakfast at Tiffany's, but New York's homeless are getting something pretty darn close.
A Chinese recycling billionaire has promised $300 and a high-priced lunch to 250 residents of Manhattan's shelters at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park, according to NBC New York.
As guests lunch on sesame-seed encrusted tuna, beef filet, and berries with creme fraiche, host Chen Guangbiao, will serenade them by singing "We are the World."
Guangbiao, 46, says that he is trying to deconstruct the image of wealthy Chinese spending too much on luxuries by having this event.
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can’t do that! it would a) help more people and b) not be so much a publicity generator. and we all know appearances are more important than fact.
he’s buying the stairway to ....
you would think a shower beforehand would be the least he could do......
this is downright wrong. send the money to a church or housing shelter based service.
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