Sachinism Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Thirty-four U.S. billionaires pledged Wednesday to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Among the billionaires joining the campaign are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller and investor Ronald Perelman. Gates and Buffett launched "The Giving Pledge" in June to convince hundreds of U.S. billionaires to give away most of their fortune during their lifetime or after their death and to publicly state their intention with a letter of explanation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38556042/ns/us_news-giving/ :hatsoff:
Clarke Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 was about to post this .. mashallah what generosity These people are the ones that deserve the real tax breaks.
Guest Hiten. Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 Takes some balls to donate half your wealth. Respect
punjabi_khota Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 I bet their wifeys and kids are not impressed. Thats debatable. There is a limit to what you can actually do if you have billions of dollars. I mean I think of stuff to do if I get a million bucks, 10 million bucks, hell 100 million bucks. But after that, I don't even know what the **** would I do if I had a billion dollars to spend. Thats a **** load of money.
kabira Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 This is one aspect where America simply PWNS everyone else :hail: Yes, thats USA for, Pure Capitalism. Some of billionaires came from other countries. An equal opportunity to become unequal.
Nova Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 ...and here we have some greedy folks who don't even part with a single penny of their ICF dollaz. Gaurav92..when u making a pledge? :D
Sachinism Posted August 4, 2010 Author Posted August 4, 2010 ...and here we have some greedy folks who don't even part with a single penny of their ICF dollaz. Gaurav92..when u making a pledge? :D Yeh bloody rich boshtods
yoda Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 ...and here we have some greedy folks who don't even part with a single penny of their ICF dollaz. Gaurav92..when u making a pledge? :D says the guy who is an ICF Tri-billionaire. :(( As they say, charity starts at home. You can start by donating 100M to me. :winky:
Nova Posted August 4, 2010 Posted August 4, 2010 says the guy who is an ICF Tri-billionaire. :(( As they say, charity starts at home. You can start by donating 100M to me. :winky: I knew this was coming....:haha:
Zelig Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Not taking any credit away, but a guy donating 1k bucks of his 20k salary is greaterrrrr than billionaires donating billions. Just MHO :regular_smile:
b555 Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 Not taking any credit away, but a guy donating 1k bucks of his 20k salary is greaterrrrr than billionaires donating billions. Just MHO :regular_smile: that 11 is only 5% dude this here we are talking baout 50% :wall:
Zelig Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 that 11 is only 5% dude this here we are talking baout 50% :wall: You're not getting it, Sonny Scott :headshake:
b555 Posted August 5, 2010 Posted August 5, 2010 You're not getting it' date=' Sonny Scott :headshake:[/quote'] :reddy:
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