Mysterious donors (Another conservative businessman's money goes Left)

PhilanthropyDaily.com ^ | 1/25/2013 | Scott Walter

[boop]

I’m not sure how Ray Kroc’s kids made out (McDonald’s CEO), but his widow did some good with her inheritance. At her death, a big chunk went to the Salvation Army. Even though she was Jewish.

[tophat9000]

Liberals and foundation money attract each other like cockroaches and food

[tophat9000]

See my post 22

[wardaddy]

Kroc’s wife supported leftist causes quite unlike he would have...which was a real shame...underneath it all her predisposition for progressivism won in the eend

NPR, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015500/posts...we even had a thread on her divergence from poor long dead Ray

But it’s actually not always the kids or wife even....but look at Heinz....GOP...left all that money to a loony leftist cougar and her gigilo

it’s the professional foundation managers who are usually from academia ...that are the real culprits

therein lies the problem

[SeminoleCounty]

Not surprised....

Whether it is Free Trade (espoused by Marx, Keynes, Gore, and a lot of other leftists), government health care (notice how many multi-nat corps HAVE NOT been negative about ObamaCare?), or outright government subsidy of business...a lot of your wealthy and corp elites are quite socialist

Reality is a lot of rich folks today are just as addicted to the government teat as ShawNiqua in South Chicago

[kabumpo]

And m i l l i o n s went to PBS.

[Disambiguator]

Here’s an interesting aside to the Packard story. I grew up in Los Altos, and one of my HS buddies was Packard’s neighbor in Los Altos Hills (his mom was pals with Lucille Packard).

I spent a lot of time up there, within spitting distance of Packard’s back yard, such as it was. My friend’s driveway was literally less than 50 feet from Packard’s rear windows.

The Packard family owns and lives on a large tract of apricot orchard in Los Altos Hills. Shortly after Dave Packard passed away, the entire property was ringed with steel or iron fencing. Prior to that, it looked like any other orchard/rural property in that area, with no fences or other security measures.

I was always curious about his lifestyle, as the house on the property was basically an old bungalow. It wasn’t ostentatious in the least.

[q_an_a]

I am amazed at how people talk about HP as some ideal example - no debt, slow growth etc. etc. They would be out of business today if the had to depend on printers and patents. Can you say XEROX as their model? Their PC market share was in the single digits and they completely screwed by pda opportunities.

Then you mention people followed her lead...please. Was Hurt, who cut R&D, trying to make HP the old company that was a creator not a follower following her? Plus his use of hookers - help. Then the next guy lasted what 6 months - he was planing to sell all the harware divisions built over two generations. Meg may still save HP. But they can't figure out that selling printer ink at huge profit margins and that never empty the package is a rip off and customers know it.

[svcw]

Based on your reply, it is clear you have know idea what HP was.

[q_an_a]

Well based upon the HP web site- showing images of HP products, my ideas about HP fit about 95% of what I said. Printers and pda - they are the primary items on their "great history" timeline. Oh yea the did some calcutlators too...so did TI. I like HP but to put much blame on Carly instead of a rogue board, then her two successors is to have a poor view of that company. (If the timeline and THEIR story is not very good then are they responsible for their message or is it the small former investor?

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/publications/timeline/