Posted on 12/21/2004 7:58:09 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo
Warren Buffett is famous for two things. First, for amassing the second-biggest fortune in the U.S. as one of the most talented investors the world has ever known. Second, for an aversion to spending a dime of that $41 billion on anything but the strictly necessary. That includes declining to provide his kids with fortunes of their own, collecting yachts or racehorses, or giving large chunks of his wealth to worthy causes. Thus it may strike some as the supreme paradox that the man who is one of America's greatest misers in life will probably become one of its greatest philanthropists in death. That reality came into focus in July, when Susie, Buffett's wife and philanthropic muse, died of a stroke at 72. Now, the bulk of Susie's Berkshire Hathaway stake -- $2.5 billion -- is pouring into the foundation that she and Warren shared, a tiny Omaha operation that supports reproductive choice and nuclear weapons reduction but that has mostly operated under layers of secrecy. What is known is that Susie's gift vaults Warren to No. 3 on BusinessWeek's third annual ranking of the Top 50 U.S. philanthropists, up from No. 26 last year. (For the purposes of the BW ranking, married couples are generally treated as a single entity.)
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That was my first thought, too!
It is if you hate them "coloreds".
Oh, or if you are trying to paint someone in a positive, philanthropic light.
"Reproductive choice" sounds so much better than "sucking babies out of wombs piece by piece".
http://www.peopleforlife.org/january2004/gianna.html
tSG
Would it not be better to have given the money for neonatal care as opposed to that incipient greed call "reproductive
choice"; the screed of selfish feminists. Ah, yes, our moneyed elite knows what's best for the children, eliminate them as they burden the investor's life style and we cannot have that. It's so pathetic that small minds master numbers more easily then compassion. Life is not a beginning for them it's an end. Such nihilism; they have no HOPE!
What a big surprise that a woman giving 2 mites was not chosen by this human court.
"Reproductive choice" sounds so much better than "sucking babies out of wombs piece by piece".
ping for future quoting...without denial and lies, where would the Dems be?
"Omaha operation that supports reproductive choice and nuclear weapons reduction but that has mostly operated under layers of secrecy"
Including campaign consulting to our RINO socialist Arnold goverNOT of California.
We need to boycott and provide alternatives to all of BH's businesses--including GEICO insurance, to devalue that firm and support pro-life, pro-Constitution companies!
Heaven? ;)
Yes--unfortunately, cursed forever to be outside its gates, unrepentant.
tis the season ...
And it is so dad-burned EASY to not be there!
1. Quit killing babies.
2. Quit anoiting perverts as bastions of society.
tSG
#3 after repenting (#1 and #2) is to accept Christ's gift of salvation..."For by grace you are saved....it is the gift of God, not of works."
Merry CHRISTmas indeed to all....
It also plays better in the media than "Gettin' rid of darkies!"
Agreed. Many of those we find here are the modern equivalents of those who would change all their paper money into pennies before dumping their seemingly-large gifts into the big, brass offering receptacles, so as to get the biggest "clang" for their bucks.
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