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BUFFETT TO KIN: YOU'RE FIRED
NY Post ^ | 07 September 2006 | By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH, CHRIS WILSON and BILL HOFFMANN

Posted on 09/07/2006 12:16:24 PM PDT by shrinkermd

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To: sandbar

What a devistating thing for a father to hear his father say to his daughter (adopted or otherwise).


41 posted on 09/07/2006 12:46:41 PM PDT by DManA
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To: beaversmom
One of her comments in the film (from the article) --

    "After we're out of school, we don't get any money from our family . . . Money is the spoke in my grandfather's wheel of life."

This statement could be taken as implying that Buffet is cheap and that money is all he cares about. That could all be true, but it could also explain why Buffet is so incensed at her.

Now that he's gone to the trouble of publicly disavowing her as his granddaughter, conspicuously pointing out that she's never been adopted and is not legally related to him, she is countering that with her own claims. That strongly suggests (at least, to me) that the two of them are positioning themselves for future litigation concerning his estate. Somehow, I don't think their difficulties with eachother are something new.

42 posted on 09/07/2006 12:48:20 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: DManA

And BTW I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as legally adopting a granddaughter.


43 posted on 09/07/2006 12:49:16 PM PDT by DManA
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To: shrinkermd
You know, if I were Bill Gate's or Warren Buffet's grandkid and I wasn't going to get anything from them because they were going to give it away, I would start making stuff up about them and none of it would be nice.

Oh, yea, by the way, for those of you who are not financially intuitive, the trust arrangement that Gates and Buffet have engaged in is most likely a tax avoidance scheme similar to that which Jacklyn Kennedy Onassis supposedly put into place upon her death. The trust owns the money but they control who runs the trust. Anyhow, that's my opinion.
44 posted on 09/07/2006 12:49:43 PM PDT by Herakles (Liberals are stone stupid and proud of it!)
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To: Dinsdale
Right ~ disfunctional. The relatives of Jacob Schmiddlapp (who held 100% ownership of Fifth-Third Bank before he died) were left penniless in the Depression. Many of them actually died of illnesses that were readily cured if they could have afforded carfare to a hospital.

The rich people are the ones who are disfunctional ~ Warren Buffet is just another example, and just as nasty. WOnder if he married his niece.

45 posted on 09/07/2006 12:50:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: shrinkermd

Buffett is a predator and takes no criticism. Big bucks, small brain.


46 posted on 09/07/2006 12:52:12 PM PDT by hgro
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To: muawiyah

Buffett gave billions to Bill Gates' foundation - he may have just as well given a check to Planned Parenthood. Disgusting, cold-hearted, eccentric old geezer.


47 posted on 09/07/2006 12:52:12 PM PDT by khnyny (Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.- Winston Churchill)
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To: Young Scholar

It's not the money. It's the appalling spectacle of a grandfather telling a granddaughter he never had any feelings for her.


48 posted on 09/07/2006 12:53:04 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Bonaparte
conspicuously pointing out that she's never been adopted and is not legally related to him,

That's not exactly what he said- he said that he never legally adopted her as his grandchildren, which is silly since it only matters if his son legally adopted his stepdaughter.

49 posted on 09/07/2006 12:54:25 PM PDT by LWalk18
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To: beaversmom

I knew someone who worked for one of his companies that burned down in Ohio. He is so cheap that he refuses to spend money to keep them updated and safe.


50 posted on 09/07/2006 12:57:26 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: smaug6

I can certainly understand your point of view concerning a father's or grandfather's financial assistance to offspring. That said, my father, who also came from nothing and built his own wealth, contributed nothing to my support and education following my 18th year. He believed it would weaken me to not do for myself. I never held that against him and have always loved him. I believe a parent's only primary obligation to children is to feed, clothe, house and protect them until they reach maturity. All else, IMO, is optional.


51 posted on 09/07/2006 12:57:52 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: wastoute

the super-wealthy often are very tight with their money and sometimes it's a good thing for the offspring. I remember hearing the Rockefeller's, as college students, would have to hitch rides to get home, they weren't given cars and limitless money to spend (as are so many of today's yuppies' kids).

Then, again, Jack Kent Cooke virtually assured that his own son would not be in a position to buy/own the Redskins. (I always resented JKC for doing that to his son, but don't know the circumstances or anything about their relationship)

So, old man Buffett can join Bill and Melinda Gates in wiping out AIDS ... still better than Soros. Methinks his ex-granddaughter will do just fine without the old ba$tard's money.


52 posted on 09/07/2006 12:58:12 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: shrinkermd

Using your money as a weapon in emotional blackmail is childish. Tsk.


53 posted on 09/07/2006 1:01:17 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: LWalk18
"That's not exactly what he said- he said that he never legally adopted her as his grandchildren, which is silly since it only matters if his son legally adopted his stepdaughter."

You're right and Buffet only said that he, himself, had not adopted her.

However, I don't believe that adoption by his son would automatically subject Buffet to a legal relationship to her as his granddaughter. I could be wrong and perhaps someone knowledgeable in this kind of legal matter will set things straight for us.

54 posted on 09/07/2006 1:02:59 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte

You make a valid point about self reliance being a forced/learned process. I believe I too am stronger due to the
stark choices forced upon me. I hope to be able to raise my daughters along similar lines. Should any of them show no inclination towards self reliance I would hope I would be able to help them learn how to stand on their own. They are young now and we shall see how good a job I do. But at the end of the day I love each of them no matter what and couldn't imagine denouncing their progeny or failing to support them should they really need it.


55 posted on 09/07/2006 1:03:32 PM PDT by smaug6 (We can't afford to be innocent!! Stand up and face the enemy.)
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To: nickcarraway

>>>I wonder if we'll Stalinize her out of family photos?>>>

I saw a picture comparison with a person in one photo, and not in another. It looked like Stalin but I'm not sure of who was removed. Is this what you are talking about? And who was removed?


56 posted on 09/07/2006 1:05:45 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: shrinkermd

What RELIGION is Warren Buffet??? This sure doesn't sound like what a Christian would do.


57 posted on 09/07/2006 1:07:25 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Suzy Quzy

Buffett was raised Presbyterian, but I believe that he's either an atheist or an agnostic now. I know that he's been a major donor to pro-abortion groups.


58 posted on 09/07/2006 1:10:15 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: sandbar

"It looked like Stalin but I'm not sure of who was removed. Is this what you are talking about? And who was removed?"

They show it on the History channel. More than one person. Stalin had a team of artists and every time he had a rival, or a friend eliminated, they doctored photos. Many of the people he eliminated were made to seem as though they never existed.


59 posted on 09/07/2006 1:10:34 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: Dinsdale
A little study of the history of filthy rich familys shows that inherited great wealth is not the boon that most working people would assume it is.

Well, it certainly doesn't require being "filthy rich" to have enough money to make life a whole lot easier and less stressful. Buffett could easily have given his children enough to buy a home or start a business, without turning them into the Hilton sisters.

And you know, plenty of penniless bums waste their money, too.

60 posted on 09/07/2006 1:10:52 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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