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Egalitarian Thug

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24. Yes. Funding for the entire world is not the issue, read the piece.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #22)

Sun May 12, 2013, 10:48 AM

May 2013

Additionally, I also understand how much a billion is and how much the mere accumulation of of it generates and they have access to almost a hundred billions. The Gate's could easily fund this, or any of the other good stuff they want, all by themselves if they were willing to deplete their capital reserves, but operating a tax-shelter foundation that pushes business to other for-profit interests is much more... profitable.

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Travels Changed Gates's View on Global Birth Control [View all] question everything May 2013 OP

So why doesn't she take just a small percentage of her vast wealth and buy it? n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #1

I'm sure it's not a one-time thing. randome May 2013 #2

It is easy to detect one's level of commitment by what one is willing to do, Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #8

Do you understand what the population of this planet is? MineralMan May 2013 #22

Yes. Funding for the entire world is not the issue, read the piece. Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #24

wow thanks lady gates elehhhhna May 2013 #3

"Lady Gates" and Sir Bill? lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #4

Maybe if enough wealthy Catholics speak out and act as Melinda Gates is doing, we JDPriestly May 2013 #5

Neither of them ever saw the inside of a public school except on a tour. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #9

You can say the same thing about any of the Kennedys yet they are still revered question everything May 2013 #10

I don't revere them or anybody except in cases where someone actually does something significant. Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #13

You would be wrong about that. Ms. Toad May 2013 #11

Bill attended The Lakeside School before Harvard, Melinda is the heir to the Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #14

Bill. Ms. Toad May 2013 #15

Well I write corrected then. Although View Ridge is hardly anything like the majority Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #16

The school is not nameless. Ms. Toad May 2013 #17

No, I readily admitted that Bill attended one of America's best public elementary schools Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #19

I don't worship them - Ms. Toad May 2013 #20

Is your argument that the public school he attended wasn't shitty enough to make it 'real?' msanthrope May 2013 #18

That's how I take it. n/t Ms. Toad May 2013 #21

"working to improve education..." Rex May 2013 #6

Yup. Imagine if they were attempting to destroy it. Oh wait, they are. MichiganVote May 2013 #7

+1 leftstreet May 2013 #23

she had to travel to figure this out ? JI7 May 2013 #12