Posted on 01/18/2017 9:01:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The billionaire Tom Steyer, an environmental activist, said he won't quantify how much he is willing to spend to combat Donald Trump's presidency.
“If you ask me can I put a limit on how much I value the health, the safety, the employment and the civil liberties of Americans, there’s no limit to what I think that’s worth,” Steyer told Bloomberg in an interview. Steyer, a Democrat who spent at least $87 million on the 2016 presidential election, was the biggest individual political donor in the race. According to Bloomberg, Steyer routes most of his money through the NextGen Climate Action Committee, a Super PAC he helped create in 2012 in an effort to devote himself to conservation. During the 2016 election, Steyer funded several anti-Trump ads through NextGen Climate.
Steyer wants to fight against the Trump administration potentially weakening environmental regulations. Trump has said climate change is a hoax invented by China. Although he has let up on some of his campaign promises, like pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, his overall stance on the environment has alarmed conservationists.“We don’t know how much of their campaign rhetoric they’re going to try to put into action,” Steyer said. “But this is the most broad-based and dangerous attack on American values certainly that I have ever experienced in my lifetime and much more than I have ever imagined would happen while I’m alive.”
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
Why don't Steyer just invest his money instead in companies that do construction work, because Trump's infrastructure plan will result in huge profits for many of them?
Well Tom, Hillary outspent Trump 10-to-1, and got JACK.
See, it’s not about spending. Not any more.
It’s about grassroots action. It’s about our passion.
You can’t buy that.
Hedge funds. Just like Soros. Bank on somebody's failure, then go arrange it.
So how much of that spent money actually went into the U.S. economy instead of some crooked politicians personal pocket? Spend it all, fool.
A good place to look would be Steyer’’s foundation.
Look for instances of promoting public policies, often by grants to NGOs, that then benefit private businesses that are funded by Silicon Valley venture capital funds.
You can follow the money, or the people that seem to cross over from one sector to another.
Steyer's net wealth is about $1.6 billion. He's already pledged to give half of that to Bill Gates' charity, assuming Gates accepts this pittance (in comparison to Gates' wealth). That leaves Steyer with $800 million. If you give him a couple of million to be able to retire in a little bungalow outside Sacramento, he's got $798 million left.
Since Hillary spent twice that much in her failed attempt to beat Trump, I suspect Steyer will fare about the same.
Can't wait!
Sure he would. He came up in Goldman Sachs. :D
I will do it for you Tom. I want 1 million helicopters and a dollar.
The libs are the ones who want to sue those who don’t agree with them into iblivion.
Steyer bump for later....
Soros wasted a billion...I hope this idiot does the same!!!
How did he start....?
A hedge fund baby?
Agreed...
Can’t sell your ideas, harass those who can.
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