Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Philanthropy Soros puts his money to work
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:35 AM
On the one hand you have the Koch boys bankrolling activities aimed at protecting their polluting industries and cutting their tax bills. On the other hand you have George Soros, who's giving $100 million to a human rights organization and who last year poured, among hundreds of millions in gifts, $35 million into a program to buy school supplies for poor children.
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And yet, Soros is one of the most hated of men by the right wing:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/a…
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Occasionally one toys with the idea of going inside someones head to see what makes them tick but a Koch brain -- no way Josee ain't that stupid.
Here we are trying to save planet earth because because it's the only known planet with chocolate while the billionaire Koch brothers gives one million to back suspension of California's initiative on a global warming law after pouring millions into the anti-America bridge to the racist eleventh century tea party to support that and more.....
There philosophy makes ones skin crawl.
The Kochs are spending millions to be sure that the EPA doesn't institute any regs related to formaldehyde de-gassing from building materials like plywood and carpeting, two markets for the products they get their income from. Perhaps they are the reason why the FEMA trailers in Hope has all the problems because they were still allowed to have it de-gas from commercial construction products.
Soros is very open to what he funds while the Koch brothers have to hide their involvement in all sorts of front organizations, including Dick Armory's Freedon Works, to astroturf the Tea Party Express. Why don't they operate in the open?-maybe it has to do with screwing the average person while using them to hold the screwdriver.
After the Iron Curtain fell Soros was the first American to fund schools across E. Europe to train future business leaders. That was in 1989-91. He had come from E. Europe as a child. His wealth was not handed to him like it was to the Koch Bros.
Soros did it the old fashioned way, he earned it.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79165556.h…
"George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game. The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,' open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but—more important—tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior."
Paul Volcker, 2003
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