wish i had a clue stick to smack buffet upside the head!

[Rick Tomaschuk]

No one likes to see human suffering. The studies I've seen (60 Minutes,
the press...) indicate only a very small percentage of aid $$ ends up
benefiting the intended people. The bulk of aid $$ ends up buying posh
lifestyles for third world leaders and their underlings. I'm not that
optimistic about the 'one laptop per child' effort for this reason.
Better to educate people and let them develop their own 'tools' whether
software or hardware. Companies such as M$FT only has it's own interest
in mind from what I can see...resulting in perpetual ignorance and
reliance on one supplier for solutions. A bad combination for most
benefiting only a few. Gates is hiding behind 'charity' to create an
image. The reality is he and his cohorts are thieves pure and simple.
Nothing changes that fact unless they give back all the money they have
duped out of consumers.

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:42 -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:35 -0400, Rick Tomaschuk wrote: 
> > Supposedly Al Capone ran soup kitchens to feed the hungry. Its ironic
> > that these billionaires are sending so much money abroad while their own
> > country is collapsing from inclement weather and corruption. American
> > elite business goals are to push for global domination. Africa is the
> > next logical untapped resource. Where are people going to live...on the
> > moon?
> > RickT
> Still the people in New Orleans, are far better off than the people in
> many other parts of the world. It must be tough for those displaced by
> Katrina, but they are not starving to death, or dying, in mass, of
> preventable diseases.
> 
> I really don't like the idea of the BMG foundation "pushing" MSFT with
> their contributions whether it's intentional or implied. Is it really
> an honourable contribution if it increases one's own profitability?
> But at least much of it is going to good causes.
> 
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