Posted on 01/29/2010 2:03:45 PM PST by Niuhuru
Bill Gates made the largest ever single charitable donation when he pledged $10billion (£6billion) to develop and distribute vaccines. The Microsoft founder hopes the money, to be spent over the next ten years through his foundation, will save the lives of more than eight million children in the world's poorest countries. 'We must make this the decade of vaccines,' he said. 'Vaccines already save and improve millions of lives. 'Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before.'
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It’s not his own money. It’s money he stole from me and others.
Gates is a con man.
About time he learned something about anti-viruses.
It's a noble idea, Bill ... but ....
Just askin' b/c reportedly Melinda Gates has attended the Bilderberg meetings.
That's a good point. Certainly, some of the governments in these countries make it impossible to invest - think Hugo Chavez - and they're so corrupt themselves that any aid funneled directly to them goes into their Swiss accounts - think Aristide (sp?) from Haiti.
Like I said, it's an admirable endeavor and it's his money, but I tend to fall to the side of private investment rather than private giveaway.
Oh please, he offered a product on the market and consumers chose to buy that product. Since he has started, there have always been options other than what he offered. Just because people chose it en-mass doesn’t mean he stole it from you.
When you go to a store and look at a computer, you can choose to say NO to his product and pick up an Apple. No one is taking the money out of your bank.
I guess we’ll see when the continent of Africa has several million people start dropping out.
I’ve heard this before, I personally think Alex Jones tries to ride this wave.......for his own benefit.
Monetarily that is.
I think that is great that he wants to vaccinate those who survive the UN abortion program that he is the biggest donor to.
So basically ...let’s vaccinate those we don’t kill. Way to go Bill.
No mere fallen mortal can ever atone for Windows ME.
He's created tens of thousands of jobs and made thousands of millionaires of lots of them. I'd say he's done more for more people in the economy than pretty much anyone else I can think of. This country didn't "give" him anything and he owes nothing "back". It's people like him that create business and wealth that are owed, not the other way around.
Now the single largest donation ever to any cause, and somehow it isn't "enough"?? Pure envy, that, and ungratefulness.
+1
I’m not one to follow conspiracy stuff, but I did see the episode I linked above. Maybe Alex Jones was interviewed, I’m not sure.
But if one were to believe this stuff ...it would sure fit better than OJ’s glove.
I understand the rocky ground i’m on. I would never tell anybody what to do with their own money. I guess it just sounded like Princess Dianna and her landmine crusade, or like what Haiti relief is coming too. Just seems trendy. But hey, I will shut up. Sure won’t dig my heels into this very tenuous position. :) And I hate busy bodies. So I guess today, and today only i’m a self loathing busy body!
A man that gives away his money to charity is a saint. A man that demands your money for a charity is a scoundrel.
Which is why he supported Obama?
Heres one for ya. If congress passes blanket amnesty for up to 20 million illegals, wouldn't this change voting demographics in favor of the democrats?
So, assuming this would be the case (which I personally believe), this would potentially give the democrat party millions more supporters.
With this being a reality, why would the republicans try to pass blanket amnesty during George Bush's presidency?
Surely we send the best and the brightest in the republican party to Washington.....right?
When one looks at this closely, it almost appears that the Republican party is trying to commit political suicide.
I dunno, just sayin.
Good for him. I hope the vaccines better than his other anti-virus products.
Well, he sort of has a point. Microsoft sure has fleeced the taxpayers in government contracts. I can’t begin to describe the waste in money and man hours due to Microcrap.
In 1994, a Microsoft employee e-mailed company chairman Bill Gates to tell him about her husband’s campaign for the Washington state legislature. Stu Jacobson is a liberal Democrat, wrote wife Sandra. He favors abortion rights, wants stricter gun control, and supports the state’s 1993 health-reform law (a mini version of ClintonCare). “It sounds like we agree on many things,” replied Gates. “I am willing to endorse Stu.”
Jacobson was clobbered on Election Day and quickly forgotten. But Gates’s endorsement worried Republicans in the Evergreen State; they were starting to detect a disturbing pattern. One year earlier, Gates had given $80,000 to help defeat a tax-limitation initiative sponsored by conservatives. In interviews, he would occasionally identify himself as a Democrat. He golfed with President Clinton. In 1996, he gave money to Democrat Gary Locke’s gubernatorial campaign, and in 1997 he spent $35,000 backing a gun-control measure. Microsoft’s corporate-donor list has long included left-wing groups such as the ACLU, the NAACP, and NOW.
In recent months, however, Gates appears to have started having second thoughts. The Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft, charging it with predatory monopoly practices, has left Gates in a deep funk. Huge amounts of his personal time and his company’s resources have gone to fending off Clinton-administration lawyers instead of developing new products. Gates wants nothing more than to have the federal government leave him alone and permit Microsoft the simple “freedom to innovate”-a catch phrase spoken by virtually every company employee involved in the case. “The lawsuit has forced him to think about politics more,” says one Microsoft insider. “He’s like the liberal who was ‘mugged by reality,’” says another. It appears that the richest man in the world is wondering whether now it’s time to join the Republicans.
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