Posted on 05/21/2013 7:54:10 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
One reason may be those executives are making so much money so quickly they don’t mind the poor getting more crumbs, and they erroneously buy into the perception that the rats care more about the poor. So it makes them feel better about themselves supporting the rats.
We had a congressional hearing Today where Apple was being berated for a tax code...the same tax code for which Senator’s campaign donations have benefited from every added page and for every so-called “loophole”.
It was the height of hipocracy.
And...John McCain is a disgraceful fool.
Gates didn’t care about politics, at all, until he was forced to care about politics.
He bailed because he just doesn’t have a gear for it. He just built this massive Taj Majal in the middle of the south part of Lake Union by the Seattle Center. It is massive. It’s the HQ of his non-profit.
It’s as if all these mega rich guys have been told, “You may be rich, that’s true, and if you come up with some discontinuous innovation that screws the rest of us, you’ll be a dead rich guy too.”
It’s the only reason why you see all the rich people working around the margins when problems like world hunger ACTUALLY have a price tag for a permanent fix. I believe the number is $29B, which is nothing for a couple of guys like Gates and Buffett to raise.
DCA is a drug WE KNOW cures a giant list of cancers. It’s also a public domain compound, which means if you want to use it legally in the US, you have to pay the $500M to put it through the FDA’s approval process. You then may have to pay extra for each family of cancers you use it on, but that may not be true if the method of action is identical and the side effects are the same.
DCA works by restoring a cell’s ability to commit suicide rather than be used as a way to mestastasize. Cancer can’t happen because affected cells kill themselves before they can be exploited.
You can patent an application of an existing drug, but they are tough to defend against infringement. Also, the cancer industry is multi billion dollar and then some.
Anyone in my family getting cancer will likely end up going to Central Europe, or Singapore, for treatment.
There are giant problems with solutions available and nobody is moving the ball anymore.
Do I think he’d be running the company still if the Clinton Admin hadn’t injected themselves into it?
Don’t know about that. Once Myrvhold convinced Gates that the internet was the future, and Netscape Browser was the new operating system of the future, he turned the company literally overnight onto the new objective and whacked Netscape.
One of the most impressive displays of corporate leadership I’ve ever witnessed.
Ballmer missed the phone, hell, missed everything. Around Microsoft, every time somebody promising does something worthy of corporate leadership, there is a dead pool around how long it will be until Ballmer has him whacked.
Last guy whacked was the guy who delivered Windows 7, which is a landmark operating system in the same way NT was.
Ballmer can’t tolerate competence. He’s got the BOD by the short hairs apparently.
Morale within Microsoft is abysmal. Anything that’s happened since Win7 has been an unmitigated failure.
So what’s he up to? Trying to bring an NBA franchise back to Seattle. His company is on fire, but clearly that’s more important.
One more thing. During the time when Clinton was trying to bust up MSFT, Paul Allen said, “I can’t believe that our own government would do this to the company that enabled the economy we have today, that they’d go after a company that was started by a couple of 19 year olds.”
He was visibly dismayed by what was going down.
I enjoyed reading your comment.
Apple’s real sin is making its expensive product with cheap Chinese labor.
Exactly, you pay up the political protection money or you get audited by every government agency. It becomes a federal whack the pinata party and they will beat on the company until the goodies flow freely.
I have finally found the silver lining to the Obama years: you no longer need to read Atlas Shrugged. It’s happening in real time. Good thing, because it’s a really long read that meanders around a good bit between the good parts.
When big businesses and government use each other to help keep the upstart small and medium businesses down we have a Corporate Big Government/Business Monopoly that is Tyranny against Free Enterprise....
Well said and I agree. This is tyranny. Tyranny for profit by the few at the expense of many. Sadly, too many of us fail to realize that we pay for advocacy on our side and only feed the beast - nothing changes. We are all busy trying to stomp on the mice without seeing the elephant standing in front of us.
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