Comments on: Comparative riches

By: cond0010

cond0010 — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:37:51 +0000

What a wonderful thing Mr. Buffet is doing. After your first tens of millions, the only good thing money is for is power (AFAIK).

…And he is giving it away.

I sure hope Carl Pohlad got the message. He’s trying to coerce us Minnesotans to build his team a stadium – which he could easily do himself.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:47:51 +0000

Meryl! Meryl! Wake up Meryl! You’re dreaming again.

This is a tax dodge. The man who wants other people to give more of their money to the tax man wants to make sure they get as little of his as possible. So he has to give it away. Better it serve HIS pet projects after he’s dead than the government’s. His kids all get a billion or so each for THEIR foundations (which pay them BIG salararies for running said foundations) and WALLA! The government gets squat.

Charitable foundations are the truly wealthy’s way of bitch-slapping the merely rich.

By: Eric J

Eric J — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:28:40 +0000

This week I recieved a fundraising letter from UNICEF. Included was a world map that showed whether a country contributed money to UNICEF, received money from UNICEF or both.

Israel was the only Contributor in the Middle East. (Turkey was one of the “both” countries.)

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait – they’re all taking international money for food, medicine and education for their children.

Think of that next time you see an article about the latest engineering marvel being erected in Dubai.