Re: Billionaire Gates: "Not $00.1 for poor white kids!"

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From: Jim Manson
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:18

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jhaaver@yahoo.com (Jim Haaver) wrote:

>Jim@Manson.com wrote in message news:<did9itchpmjsul0k8uoicccvr53mnjf107@4ax.com>...
>> Considering Gates has no obligation to give anything to anyone he's
>> pretty much free to do whatever he wants with it.
>> 
>> If he wants to give it all to left handed Lithuanians with one short
>> leg he gets to do exactly that.
>> 
>> That's the wonderful thing about donating to charity- you give to the
>> groups/people that you want to give to.
>> 
>> So quit whining, set up your own foundations, go funds raise for
>> disadvantaged rural youth and quit worrying about what Gates is doing.
>
>
>Gates "charity" was announced during the Microsoft trial, an obvious
>attempt to curry favor in "progressive thinking communities". It was
>blatant.

So what?

People give to charity all the time for any number of reasons- to make
themselves feel better, to actually help others or to impress other
people.

Why should Gates be any different?

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