Bill Gates predicts almost no poor countries by 2035

[sooperphreek]

pay down poor countries debt. especially in africa. and then when not enslaved by the imf they can rebuild.

[LANDM]

if bill really wanted to help countries - liquidate and infuse a poor country with his money - and viola they will be great!

Wow!!
You really know nothing of what you are commenting on!
Your strategy is one that wealthy countries have tried to do, and failed, for years. A typical example of why government can generally always do an inferior job compared to what smart individuals or groups can do.

Try actually looking into what their foundation does, what it's stated goals are, how it is funded, and what the disbursements have been. Then come back and comment.

[Captain Awesome]

pay down poor countries debt.

Other countries continually forgive and write off loans made to developing countries. Doesn't help them at all.

[sooperphreek]

maybe if these rich guys are so great they should depose the governments and take over. and then re invent countries that have been taken advantage of or made a mess. lets start with haiti. one oligarch per country. they can have a competition to see who was the best entrepreneur in the first place by who makes the biggest success of their country.

[sooperphreek]

with charming oligarchs like this fellow i think the project would be great.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546326/Tom-Perkins-doubles-criticism-rich-like-Nazis-remark.html

The California billionaire widely ridiculed after the Wall Street Journal published his letter comparing criticism of the super-rich to the Holocaust is at it again.

Venture capitalist Thomas Perkins - worth about $8billion - wrote another letter Sunday, this time to Bloomberg, in which he compared the 'Occupy' movement to pre-Nazi rise to power fascism in Germany.

'In the Nazi area it was racial demonization, now it is class demonization,' wrote the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers venture capital firm co-founder.

He also expressed 'shock' over the windows broken at luxury dealerships and banks in San Francisco while the press 'focuses its wrath on the 1 percent.'

The letter was written as a KPCB spokesperson immediately moved to distance itself from Perkins.

'Tom Perkins has not been involved in KPCB for years,' the firm tweeted. 'We were shocked by his views expressed today in the WSJ and do not agree.'

The letter was written after Bloomberg contacted Perkins to clarify what he meant in his original letter to the Wall Street Journal, according to Business Insider.

Perkins opened his letter to the Journal: 'Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.'


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Mr Perkins describing the hatred attracted by Google workers in San Francisco and an incident in which his former wife author Danielle Steele was branded a 'snob' in the San Francisco Chronicle in a row over the height of her hedge.

'This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?' He continued.

Kristallnacht translates as 'The night of broken glass' and refers to coordinated attacks on Jews in Germany on November 9 1938, as authorities looke on and did nothing.
Superyacht: Mr Perkins commissioned the $150m yacht Maltese Falcon which he later sold
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Superyacht: Mr Perkins commissioned the $150m yacht Maltese Falcon which he later sold

Mr Perkins, 82, was educated at MIT before gaining an MBA from Harvard. He founded Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1973 and has served as a director on boards of companies including Compaq.

He recently spent $150million building a super yacht called Maltese Falcon and lives on a 60th floor, 5,500ft penthouse overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Before that, he was a general manager credited with building Hewlett Packard into the huge company it is known as today and started a successful laser company based on his own invention.
Comparisons: Mr Perkins referenced the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany in 1938
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Comparisons: Mr Perkins referenced the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany in 1938

Protests: Mr Perkins also discusses the protests in San Francisco against Google buses and tech workers driving up the area's cost of living
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Protests: Mr Perkins also discusses the protests in San Francisco against Google buses and tech workers driving up the area's cost of living

His comments comparing criticism of the rich to the Nazis persecution of the Jews that resulted in six million deaths raised many an eyebrow.

'The parallel of Nazi Germany and some people getting kind of annoyed by the tech bro dudes is exactly ZERO,' Kaili Joy Gray wrote on the Wonkette blog.

Author and New York Times writer Steven Greenhouse tweeted: 'As someone who lost numerous relatives to the Nazi gas chambers, I find statements like this revolting & inexplicable.'

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[LANDM]

And the connection to the discussion is.....???

Once again, see my comment above. You spent the time to find one wacko situation.....why not spend that same time to read the facts?

[jimmy4321]

Wish a few of these intelligent minds were in Ottawa.
Just blindly throwing money at something like our government does doesn't fix anything, just allows a flawed system to survive another day.

[sooperphreek]

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21526-calvin-and-jobs-why-the-right-hates-but-still-needs-social-welfare

[sooperphreek]

maybe bill and his cronies should do it right and go all the way with their philanthropy. like this guy.

[Buckeye19]

maybe bill and his cronies should do it right and go all the way with their philanthropy. like this guy.

Sure, right after you and your cronies donate 99% of your earnings.

[grammafreddy]

maybe bill and his cronies should do it right and go all the way with their philanthropy. like this guy.

They already have - coulda sworn I posted that link.

[sooperphreek]

so bill and his cronies only have a couple mill left? and still counting? what kind of koolaid are you insane people drinking?

[Captain Awesome]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ldren.html

Bill Gates has pledged to give all of his £30billion ($58billion) fortune to charity - rather than leaving it for his children.

[grammafreddy]

Yup - and he has convinced a lot of his wealthy friends to do the same ... http://givingpledge.org/#enter

[OREZ]

He DID pay someone's mortgage off for changing a tire.

Urban myth, BTW, attributed to a few of different people in different places at different times.

Yeah, many people would like to believe that obscenely rich people actually give a damn and want to give something back... nice dream.