June 29, 2006
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Have you heard about Warren Buffet donating some 32 billion fucking
dollars to the Gates Foundation? Well, in case you haven’t, billionaire
Warren Buffett, the 2nd richest person in the world, is donating most
of his fortune to the foundation run by Bill Gates, the richest man in
the world. Of course this is great, but a reporter asked Buffett if his
kids were upset with him and he replied that he believes people should
earn their own money. That’s great, but the man has 44 billion dollars,
leaving him with enough money for him and his family to still live on.
Still, I don’t want to detract from this great story, I mean, what a
generous and great thing to do. It isn’t, however, without controversy
and leave it to the right wing Christians to take issue with it. Here
is the link.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_re_us/billionaires_abortion
Basically, they are upset because Buffett and Gates are both pro choice
and support a lot of planned parenthood and abortion causes. Now, I’m
going to be honest, I’m not the biggest pro choice supporter around. I
have always been on the fence on the abortion issue, I feel there needs
to be a happy medium (my solution is abortion still legal, but they
should ban partial birth abortion, if you can’t decide within the first
2 trimesters, you should have the damn kid), but I think both pro
lifers and pro choice people have good, legit arguments. This, however,
is not even an argument. This man is trying to do something great and
trying to make the world a better place by donating money to charity,
even if you don’t agree with his politics, you can not bash what he is
doing. If these pro lifers are so damn holy and passionate about their
cause, than I say put there money where there still beating hearts are
and donate your vast wealth (and I’m sure they have a lot of money,
maybe not Buffett or Gates money, but a lot) to charity, but what
Buffett has done deserves your respect and admiration.
