Posted on 03/14/2013 9:22:47 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the wealthiest American, said on “some days” he wishes the U.S. political system were like England’s, so that President Barack Obama could have “slightly more power.”
Gates was asked for his assessment of President Obama’s job performance during an interview at Politico’s “Playbook Cocktails” event.
“Some days I wish we had a system like the U.K. where, you know, the party in power could do a lot and you know, you’d see how it went and then fine you could un-elect them,” said Gates on Wednesday.
“Now, over time, our system has worked slightly better than theirs, theirs has worked okay but so it’s ironic that right now it feels like I wish there was slightly more power in the presidency to avoid some of these deadlocks. So I think what he [Obama] wants to do and what he’s actually able to do, the gap is so big there that it’s hard to know in some ways.”
Gates praised President Obama for his education policy and commended former President George W. Bush for The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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Quite very much ironic for Bill to be saying this in that we rebelled against the UK for this very reason. Great Britain had been exerting too much power on the colonies and so set up a system where the leader would have to share power, a concept a megalomaniac like you, Bill, wouldn't understand.
In the days when Gates was Microsoft CEO, he ran the company like a ruthless dictator, breaking every fair business practice there ever was, created a virtual lock on the industry, destroyed many companies in the process, a US court deemed Microsoft having employed monopolistic business practices, predatorial behavior.
Is this the same Bill Gates that wants to kill off 5.5 billion people?
You nailed it. This college dropout doesn’t know that the Founders built the checks and balances into the Constitution because they had rebelled against a British style government.
Shut up and write software.
the elites just want us to be little ants, working, but not taking up too much of their space or their time....keep quiet, speak only when spoken to...
What does it matter to him what rights people have? None of this can ever affect him. This a guy who could afford to have someone make him a solid gold machine-gun that fired diamond bullets. He is not a normal person.
in communism, there is no true community...its the party and the favored living in high style while the rest live hand to mouth...
Bill Gates own statements makes the case for euthanasia.. of Bill Gates.
Bill, you eugenics loving, baby killing, totalitarian scumbag, the Gates of Hell awaits you.
like a monarchy?
Isn’t is ironic that this statement comes from an person whose monopoly is protected by the government.
Wonder what Gates thought when he heard, ‘You didn’t build that.’ Maybe that’s why he leans left, knowing that what the government ‘gives’ can be taken in an instant.
what the same Gates who made billions here and userd a system which let him do so?
That Gates you mean
Gates and Obama are bosom buddies when it comes to financing careers. Gates started out by pilfering/swindling Digital Research Corp. and Obama started out by pilfering/swindling the Annenberg funds.
these rich elitist folk make all their money in the country which they want to change, use a system which let them make tons of money and then give that money to change the system which let them have that money.
Then they give it to the homosexual turd feces poking agenda and think they are above the working class.
They don;t have to put up with what they give their money to, they don;t have to put up with cross dressrs and turd pokers acting out in the street when one wants to take a child for an ice cream or even go to the Doctors.
Must be nice to live in those ivory towers,
NOT
Give me enough money to buy a few thousand acres and a log cabin in the middle of that with a few horses etc and be away from all these ##ckwits and turd pokers
Sure Bill. 12 million still unemployed is fantastic! http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/jobless-claims-fall-to-march-2012-levels-still-12-032-million-unemployed/
If Gates wants a King he can move his ass to Swaziland.
Shut up, Bill. Just because you are a computer geek doesn’t mean you know squat about governing a country.
every day i wish rich people would stop thinking they are smart at everything because they made a lot of money in one thing. that inludes hollywierd
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