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Re: Rich old farts always fall into the philanthropy trap

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From: fred
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:48
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> I've been watching Gates, Buffet and Turner bitch about how their taxes 
> aren't high enough and how they're going to give away all of their money 
> to the poor. In other words, they want to divert billions of investment 
> dollars from productive workers and give it to bums.
>
> Somebody should point out to these fools that giving money to folks who 
> didn't earn it never makes them better people. Look at all the trillions 
> of petro dollars which have been given to the Muslims. It's only allowed 
> them the power to express their base traits. How about the trillions 
> thrown at the inner cities? Much of it goes to booze, drugs and lottery 
> tickets. Then there's all that money flushed down the black hole of 
> Africa. Most of it ends up in Swiss bank accounts. At least that gets 
> re-invested.
>
> The same goes for tax money. Most of it is wasted or worse.
>
> GP

Though it's their money to give one would think some would go to worthy 
Americans.
Appalachia continues to suffer from bad schools, rural communities the same. 
Perhaps these
rural and mountain people, who have about the lowest crime rates in the USA, 
are not scuzzy
enough!

Fred
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