Reply #43: I wouldn't GIVE much away at all

[XemaSab]

If I was really a brazilianaire, I would start several businesses and hire people to work for them.

Most of them would probably be non-profit (or at least NOT PROFITABLE) but hopefully enough money would flow in that they could run themselves for quite some time.

I think I can do more good by having 10 people working for 10 years for $50K each than giving away $5 million, ya know?

(And as an example, I think it would be worthwhile to set up a permanent Democratic headquarters and liberal clearinghouse in the North State. Get three bright young interns, pay 'em each 30K plus housing, and rent 'em a storefront somewhere in Redding. One intern can do fundraising and handle the money, one intern can do computer stuff, and one intern can do media and roving outreach, or something like that. I think the whole shebang could be run for about $150-$200K a year, and if you got 3,500 people in the North State to pay $5 a month, my theoretical money would not be needed to keep the thing going. This is merely an example.)