Posted on 04/27/2006 7:12:04 AM PDT by wjersey
Earn your own money.
You don't really know if they earned it or not. I have stated that I would will my estate to my immediate family. I know that's cold and evil but my family has earned it. Liz can give her money away however she wants to and I can offer my opinion on the subject however I want to. God Bless America!
Is that directed at me or AIDS research?
I think that a person has a right to leave money to whoever they want, but Warren Buffet is not an example. He is giving his money away to see that children are exterminated and stamped out. Warren Buffet makes Mr. Potter look like George Bailey.
Like all of us she's been dying for years.
Of course the report left out the most important fact:
Michael Jackson is deeply saddened.
(BTW, I agree with poster who said her kids should hate her. If my parents gave my inheritance (hypothetically) to support perverts I'd hate them too.)
IIRC, her aids-stricken daughter-in-law was a Getty. Aids is nearly completely avoidable. What that money could do in other research areas! I DO believe in leaving your money wherever you want. I just wish the people with soooo much money could be more generous with diseases that are unavoidable.
Granted, but I think she chose something that touched her personally. I'm looking more at the act than the actually gift.
And now Vanderbilt's money goes to promote ultra-left wing causes. Just like the money of Rockefeller, Ford, etc., they all go to support the ultraleft. Note to self: think twice before leaving money to charity.
I was at the hairdresser a couple of weeks ago and looked through a magazine of celebrity hairstyles. None of the stars today comes close to Elizabeth Taylor in her prime, except maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones.
(Their hairstyles mostly looked tacky, too ;-) (/meow!)
You have the same freedom to give money to causes you think are important. I think that's great.
I did acknowledge that. I didn't say she didn't have the right or freedom. I just said that I wish that unavoidable diseases had some clout with the wealthy politically correct.
I believe that her adult children are already well taken care of financialy.
Like Michael J. Fox's work for Parkinson's?
Like Danny Thomas' (and now daughter Marlo's) fundraising for St. Jude's Hospital?
Like Jerry Lewis for Muscular Dystrophy?
Like David Hyde-Pierce for Alzheimer's?
Like Christopher Reeve for spinal injuries?
Like Julia Roberts for Rhett's Syndrome?
Like Meredith Baxter, Rue McClanahan, Marcia Wallace and others for breast cancer?
Like Gene Wilder for ovarian cancer?
Like Julia Sweeney for cervical cancer?
Like Mary Tyler Moore for juvenile diabetes?
Those are just a few that come to mind.
It could be that she or her husbands or their lawyers made sufficient provision for the children already, so that what she has left is just a part of her estate.
Wonder why several here jumped on your attitude about her money? Because they understand that you are throwing snide remarks her way - based on her kids deserve all her earnings whether she wishes that or not, that she is wasting her money on AIDS research, and that - you, of course, are so much a better person than she on her deathbed is.
We are pretty versed in understanding what people are saying as they criticize and it is somewhat a cheap shot.
Just noticed today that Angelina Jolie made the "Most Beautiful" list. Makes me want to throw up. People don't know what beautiful is anymore. Angelina is absolutely ugly in my opinion - I can't hardly watch her manipulate those gross lips.
Ditto. Even my teenagers think AJ is gross.
Right - put her next to Grace Kelly. "one of these things is not like the other", all right.
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