Let me be the first to say........WTF!!!!!!!!!!
W......T......F?
STOP THIS MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!! Bono is a Rock Musician!! What’s is with all these Star-crossed Republicans like that O’Neill and now Gates...YUK!!!
I hope Gates conveyed the truth about starvation in Africa to Bono.
African nations starve because of inter-tribal warfare and brutal dictatorships. Raising money won’t feed Africans unless someone can stop the warlords from stealing the food and money.
If Bono can see the truth in that, then maybe he can make a difference in the way aid is raised and distributed.
What does Gates have to do with World Poverty anyway? His job is to prepare people to kill other people and break things.
What does Bono/poverty have to do with the Pentagon? I miss Rumsfeld so much. Where have all the men of steel gone?
what the hell was Gates thinking??? or not thinking??? dumbass!!!
A spokeswoman for DATA, the group co-founded by Bono to fight poverty and AIDS in Africa, said the singer had been in Washington to meet members of budget committees in Congress.
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We can’t be in Iraq, but by golly we can ship U.S. tax-dollars overseas for non-national security reasons. And before any liberal claims that foreign poverty and AIDS are legitimate national security threats, let me be the first to say “mule-muffins!”.
The guy has a lot of nerve, considering he’s a tax evader in his own country.
This yahoo is only seeking to bill U.S. taxpayers to redistribute wealth to 3rd world countries, whereas we should let them starve of their own free will.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952167/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954387/posts
And while you are at, fire Hesham Islam and have the JCS reinstate Stephen Coughlin.
Here goes....How does Bush get any oxygen with his head firmly planted...? Globalist, he.
Why does anyone give this tard any attention?
A familiar paradox about leftist celebrities in the entertainment industry is that their embrace of progressivism almost never includes a wholehearted embrace of progressive taxation, i.e., the principle that the richer you get, the larger the percentage of your income you ought to pay in taxes.
The latest example is U2's Bono, a committed and unusually sophisticated anti-poverty crusader who is taking surprisingly little heat for the decision by his band, U2, to relocate its music-publishing business from Ireland to the Netherlands in order to shelter its songwriting royalties from taxation.
The irony was stated in admirably stark terms by Bloomberg's Fergal O'Brien, who reported on Oct. 16:
Bono, the rock star and campaigner against Third World debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he's reducing tax payments that could help fund that aid.
Now I know we have gone nuts and the kooks are winning.
I guess he’ll meet with Bill Gates next week to discuss suppressing brutal thugs that are the root cause of poverty in Africa?