It's so ridiculous to call Billions "pennies" (Reply #22)

In the discussion thread: Sanders accuses Apple of 'throwing pennies at a housing crisis' it 'helped create' [View all]

Response to George II (Reply #19)

Mon Nov 4, 2019, 11:55 PM

Cha (286,532 posts)

22. It's so ridiculous to call Billions "pennies"

.. isn't he always railing on Billionaires for being too rich or something?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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69 replies	Author	Time	Post
Sanders accuses Apple of 'throwing pennies at a housing crisis' it 'helped create' [View all]	crazytown	Nov 2019	OP
Let's Not Do Anything Then	Me.	Nov 2019	#1
Exactly.. it's bizarre!	Cha	Nov 2019	#3
Great Minds?	Me.	Nov 2019	#5
Oh well	Thekaspervote	Nov 2019	#31
Sort of like Bernie grudgingly backing Hillary's health care effort in 94.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#59
Agreed!	Rebl2	Nov 2019	#12
Wow.. Thanks Apple! They're actually doing IT.	Cha	Nov 2019	#2
A lot of voters will ask why Bernie hates American business so much?	TexasTowelie	Nov 2019	#6
I know! What are they	Cha	Nov 2019	#9
Business and "Wall Street". Yet, if you look at his Senate financial filings, you'll see....	George II	Nov 2019	#14
Not only that... guess who his biggest seller/distributor is for his books.	NurseJackie	Nov 2019	#40
Yes, if Amazon is so bad, why sell your books there? Not very ... um ... authentic.	betsuni	Nov 2019	#41
Is it a river in Brazil?	George II	Nov 2019	#52
Another plan that will never be adopted. nt	TexasTowelie	Nov 2019	#4
I read Bernie's statement	ritapria	Nov 2019	#7
Apple is investing $2.5B in housing in California. Why is he accusing Apple of "creating"....	George II	Nov 2019	#15
And, $2.5 Billion is now	Cha	Nov 2019	#18
I wish I had $2.5 billion worth of "pennies"!	George II	Nov 2019	#19
It's so ridiculous to call Billions "pennies"	Cha	Nov 2019	#22
This message was self-deleted by its author	rainy	Nov 2019	#33
So, Apple has invested 10% of it's profits in affordable housing? Good for them!	LongtimeAZDem	Nov 2019	#46
$2.5B is enough to BUY 5,000 decent 2 bedroom/2bathroom condos	lapfog_1	Nov 2019	#8
Not you, but GMAFB! That from a guy who gave all of $18,000 on almost $600,000 income in 2018....	George II	Nov 2019	#10
Crumbs...	billpolonsky	Nov 2019	#11
More "crumbs" than anyone else, including the one that is bashing Apple for doing this.	George II	Nov 2019	#16
It's hardly a crumb	ritapria	Nov 2019	#17
No it's $2.5 Billion $$$$ which the people who	Cha	Nov 2019	#20
Like the crumbs Sanders donated to charity last year? Those crumbs?	oldsoftie	Nov 2019	#24
Sanders announces his "Housing for All" plan in September and now Apple announces this.	betsuni	Nov 2019	#13
I am a tad confused here.	sheshe2	Nov 2019	#21
What's Amazon got to do with this? You mean Apple?	lostnfound	Nov 2019	#37
Apple put the money up.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#60
Oh BS	Lithos	Nov 2019	#23
Even earlier. Go way back to founding of Stanford U. Always a hub of innovation in multiple	emmaverybo	Nov 2019	#28
Sorry, Bernie, but Rep Omar just stopped your progress with her remarks at your rally	oldsoftie	Nov 2019	#25
Bernie runs on anger-fuel. Maybe anger is his inspiration. But so misplaced here. Celebrate	emmaverybo	Nov 2019	#26
Apple does a good deed and Bernie is pissed. Pretty strange by my reckoning.	comradebillyboy	Nov 2019	#27
Yes! Yes!	emmaverybo	Nov 2019	#29
Excellent point, comradebillyboy!	Cha	Nov 2019	#32
who but Bernie...	myohmy2	Nov 2019	#30
big tech moves in displacing low wage earners who still need their jobs	rainy	Nov 2019	#34
"Google and Apple choose crowded very hip cities to move into"	crazytown	Nov 2019	#36
Apples growth in San Francisco has absolutely	rainy	Nov 2019	#38
And eBay, Facebook, Google, Oracle, Netflix, Paypal, Tesla and Twitter	crazytown	Nov 2019	#48
It became a tech hub. I never blamed Apple	rainy	Nov 2019	#50
"Does that make sense to you?"	crazytown	Nov 2019	#51
One of the problems that I see with the Bay Area	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#65
The image you described happens all over the country.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#64
Cities are dynamic. They always will be.	brooklynite	Nov 2019	#53
True, but one problem is city leaders typically do a poor	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#66
Agreed: I teach a class on this at NYU	brooklynite	Nov 2019	#69
Apple has been there since the early 70s.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#63
Don't blow of the fantasy of the evil Corp parachuting into happy-land and screwing things up.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#62
The phenomenon is being repeated in Austin, Texas	dalton99a	Nov 2019	#49
Obsurd.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#61
"Ev'ry time it rains, it rains pennies from Apples"	oasis	Nov 2019	#35
Leave the billionaires alone!!!11	RandiFan1290	Nov 2019	#39
But millionaires are okay.	betsuni	Nov 2019	#42
I'm sure they are	RandiFan1290	Nov 2019	#43
Isn't Sanders a one percent earner?	TidalWave46	Nov 2019	#45
Apple is donating $2.5 BILLION $$$ for Affordable Housing	Cha	Nov 2019	#54
Since Sanders has hit the national stage....	TidalWave46	Nov 2019	#44
Absolutely.	Cha	Nov 2019	#55
+1	betsuni	Nov 2019	#56
Bernie has a burn it down mindset, without thinking deeply with what he will replace it with.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#67
So, Bernie Sanders is opposed to paying employees a living salary...	brooklynite	Nov 2019	#47
"Keeping a quarter trillion dollars of profit offshore	Hav	Nov 2019	#57
Bernie is calling out things that need to be called out.	Joe941	Nov 2019	#58
I disagree. If you want to know why, I have posted several times in this thread.	Blue_true	Nov 2019	#68

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