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40 billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth
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Posted on 08/04/2010 11:13:07 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
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To: Lucky9teen
If they do, most of what is given away will wind up damaging our country ala Henry Ford’s millions powering the “Ford Foundation.”
To: Mr. Wright
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posted on
08/04/2010 12:24:51 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Lucky9teen
While you billionaires are feeling warm and fuzzy I’ll take some..
To: Lucky9teen
Another transfer program to the 3rd world, mostly. The so-called "Robber Barons" donated a lot of money to charity too: they build Carneige Hall, Rockefeller University, Standford, funded new museums, built hospitals and great institutions of learning here in the USA.
Bill Gates, who has made his fortune in the West and in America in particular, has given his millions to save Africa. Even more obnoxious, he created a huge scholarship that everyone except White kids can apply for.
The much derided Robber Barons at least had a sense of loyalty to the nation and people who made them rich.
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posted on
08/04/2010 12:36:11 PM PDT
by
Jack Black
( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
To: Lucky9teen
It took generations and the work of millions of people to create that wealth. The States could destroy it all in a few months:
$26 Billion State Aid Measure Survives Senate Vote
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posted on
08/04/2010 12:47:53 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: DManA
Presumably this money is currently invested and being used to grow new wealth. So we take half of this out of the productive economy to be consumed, wont we all be worse off?That's not the altruist's way.
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posted on
08/04/2010 1:37:32 PM PDT
by
Misterioso
(The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. -- Ayn Rand)
To: OpusatFR
The private foundations are nothing more than sociological think tanks and population steering mechanisms. I thought they were tax dodges.
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posted on
08/04/2010 1:41:43 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Politicians exist to break windows so they may spend other people's money to fix them.)
To: Mr. Wright
Where is Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby, Famous Amos the cookie maker, and all the other Obama supporters who can share the wealth? Tiger Wood's half is already accounted for.
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posted on
08/04/2010 1:43:52 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Politicians exist to break windows so they may spend other people's money to fix them.)
To: Jack Black
Bill Gates, who has made his fortune in the West and in America in particular, has given his millions to save Africa. That's better than George W. Bush who gave our billions to save Africa.
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posted on
08/04/2010 1:45:09 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Politicians exist to break windows so they may spend other people's money to fix them.)
To: Moonman62
Yea, forgot about him . . . but, as you pointed out, his half is already accounted for . . .
To: Lucky9teen
They should all die this year (before the death tax comes back) to make it more meaningful.
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posted on
08/04/2010 2:30:38 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Socialism is the philosophy of failure, - W Churchill)
To: Lucky9teen
either during their lifetime or after their death. Why not now?
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posted on
08/04/2010 3:30:48 PM PDT
by
trublu
To: calex59
“Even if you have a paltry billion and dumb 500,000,000 you would still be pretty set for life even without investing in a thing.”
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Except that there is ZERO guarantee that a loaf of bread won’t cost a million dollars in two or three years! At the time the sixteenth amendment became effective people were lulled into submission by the promise that it would only apply to people earning over five thousand dollars a year. Very few expected to ever earn anywhere near that amount.
The income tax was passed in 1913, the very next year Henry Ford turned things upside down by paying employees FIVE DOLLARS A DAY. To qualify to earn forty percent of the threshold for the income tax employees had to show that they could be trusted not to waste this huge income on “riotous living”.
“On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford announced a minimum five dollar salary for all elegible employees working eight-hour days. It was conceived as a profit-sharing plan which would motivate Ford employees to adopt efficient and productive habits at both the factory and the home.”
“The Ford Sociological Department was created to administer the plan by sending field agents into the community to visit workers at home to determine the quality of their home lives. It was believed that influencing the behavior of employees at home would turn them into better workers. All employees over 22 were eligible for the plan, which included a shortened work day from nine to eight hours in addition to the opportunity to earn five dollars per day. In order for a worker to be eligible to receive his share of the company’s profits he “must show himself to be sober, saving, steady, industrious and must satisfy the...staff that his money will not be wasted in riotous living.” Workers who didn’t comply risked being payed half as much for performing the same work as their co-workers, and could eventually lose their jobs.”
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posted on
08/04/2010 4:44:02 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: RipSawyer
Thanks for your rant, however, I was pointing out the way things stand today and saying that even if they gave half of their wealth away they would not be hurting. What happens in the future wasn't part of my comment.
Hopefully we can stop the communists before we have super inflation.
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posted on
08/04/2010 6:02:14 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: La Lydia
If they had the courage they would give all of the amounts pledged to World Vision. World Vision with that kind of money would change the world. But NO it will mostly go to UN charities and Global warming environmental crapola.
Might as well flush the money if it goes to UN etc
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posted on
08/05/2010 7:01:24 AM PDT
by
Friendofgeorge
( SARAH PALIN / LOU HOLTZ 2012 DREAM TICKET)
To: OpusatFR
They need to give the money to World Vision!!!
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posted on
08/05/2010 7:02:28 AM PDT
by
Friendofgeorge
( SARAH PALIN / LOU HOLTZ 2012 DREAM TICKET)
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