Bill Gates Holds a State Dinner at His House ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

This is weird, right? Say what you will though, at least he has more class than the Clampetts in the White House.





http: //news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060419/480/watw10904190402



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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060419/480/watw10504190357



Chinese President Hu Jintao, wearing a red tie and seated at center left, sits with Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, center, at the head table Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at the home of Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates in the Seattle suburb of Medina, Wash. at a dinner hosted by Gregoire. The visit was on the first day of a four-day U.S. tour that will end with a Thursday summit with President Bush in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060419/480/watw10404190334

[beam me up scottie]

1. You know,

I was actually thinking the same thing today.

Is there any way we could stop foreign dignitaries from staying with Little Lord Pissypants?

[beam me up scottie]

2. My gawd.

Why aren't any of the hosts wearing cowboy boots, Victorian draperies or lumpy hunting coats?

[havocmom]

3. Guess it's official: There is no USA, only Corporations

Can we send the drunk in the White House home now?

[Erika]

5. China and other countries now own more of the U.S.

than we do. Working Americans have been ------.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. 6 blanks.

My guess is "fucked."

:woohoo:

[Stephanie]

6. Welcome to the Oligarchy

Democracy is so 20th Century.

[havocmom]

7. Yeah, it works so well in Mexico.

::sigh:: I miss my country.

[debbierlus]

20. Spot on!

[Erika]

4. We've become a global world where the rich entertain

the rich. Corporate Kings are equal in power to world leaders.

And no one invited us.

[Ksec]

8. In other words

Stockholders and Corporations tell us to say goodbye to your jobs and Hello to cheap products we can no longer afford. .

[Swamp Rat]

9. Where's the photos of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker bursting in to make a

bust? :D

[Stephanie]

11. Too funny!

You need to do a pictorial. Let's see some short-form graphic art, SR! Bump it up a notch!

[shance]

10. Here is an example of too much money and power in one persons hands.

It's called overzealous capitalism, beautifully decored in the name of American "opportunity".

Bill Gates comes from a world of privilege and exclusion.

He has successfully locked his privilege and wealth tightly inside an overdone, overindulged, hedonistic, manicured and manufactured world which, like the highest priced estates, no one else can enter in his world, play or compete. Anyone who tries to regulate his overzealous power grab gets punished.

Mr. Gates is schooled and skilled in parasitically taking whatever he needs and at whatever price for anyone else, and he rarely chooses to give back to anyone or anything less fortunate, unless of course it somehow benefits them.

Because life is all about, being on top, being of their benefit and their benefit only and no one elses. To share power with anyone else is to lose the top of the mountain position and it is to become less powerful. Yes, even if the world is crumbling apart and economies and jobs could be saved if people like Mr. Gates and/or Mr. Buffett, two privileged white males who have gained their money and wealth off of the backs of others labor, if they would just share and give of what they have been given and not necessarily even earned. That apparently doesnt matter though. It's more important to be "king(s) of the hill".

That is their American way.

[Stephanie]

12. I will say that he does fund a very large foundation. -

and the foundation is doing a lot of work on AIDS in Africa.

You're right though, his wealth is obscene.

[Erika]

14. Agreed, they are now our ruling class

They are treated as kings in the globalist society.

The American worker is seen as some dirty but necessary factor. Like toilet paper.

[Erika]

17. He could reduce the price of his product

if he was so humanitarian. He didn't do so.

[MyNameGoesHere]

27. Chirp Chirp Chirp

I see. and who donated 21 million to Chicago high schools a day or two ago? I think Gates is many things, some good some bad. But i don't see halliburton donating this kind of money.

[Tinksrival]

13. I have to give Gates some kudos today

Gates Foundation gives city schools $21 million


With many high school dropouts saying they left school because they felt unchallenged in the classroom, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday gave $21 million to the Chicago Public Schools system to establish a more rigorous curriculum in city high schools.
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The Gates foundation has invested more than $65 million in the Chicago Public Schools and $1.3 billion nationally.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060417gatesdonation,1,2632148.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Lets hope it does some good. According to the article, after five years of Bush, only 54% of freshman go on to recieve a diploma, 47% of that # go on to college.

[Erika]

15. Maybe they could pay their workers a better wage instead?

[lumpy]

18. The Gates Foundation is the

worlds largest charitable foundation. It is estimated that 51% of his fortune goes into the foundation. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/AboutUs/

[Protagoras]

19. Glad to hear it. But that doesn't erase

a single ounce of corporate culpability if he uses the other 49% of his vast wealth to prop up the neocon regime.

Being a good guy with 10 billion does not fit you thru the eye of that needle any faster if you are a life destroying, environment despoiling, economic raider with the other 10 billion (or whatever).

And no I'm not saying Bill is...I don't know enough about him. I do know that Walmart gives a lot to charity too...that doesn't seem to matter though when I consider the OTHER ills they create.

I'm happy for the good Bill's money does when it does good. But we need people with his wealth to speak up, not just hand out.

Is he speaking up?

[lumpy]

21. It appears Bill Gates is apolitical.

His father, who is an important influence in his sons life, however is a strong advocate for retaining the estate tax for the wealthiest, This might indicate what side of the aisle he stands on. Would be interesting to research more.


http://www.brook.edu/comm/events/20030114gates.htm.

[Deja Q]

26. Oh please... 3 things:

1. That's his tax shelter.

2. His business practices don't make up for his "charity". You can't be a "selective good guy".

3. Cynicism aside, let's hope the money works out for the schools. After all, government won't do shit. So corporations now have to look good by doing that work... until it's payback time. :think:

[TheBaldyMan]

22. Bill is supposed to get Jintao to but enough copies of XP to wipe the debt

This is what I heard on BBC Radio news this morning. If China buys one copy of XP at full price for every man, woman AND child then that would effectively wipe the $200 billion debt held by China in the form of T-bills.

What's mandarin for 'desperate'

[SoCalDem]

23. Bush likes to hand 'em a BBQ rib and a rake

to help with the "brush problem"..

I woonder how much it costs to have the groundskeepers keep planting weeds so he'll have something to do in betweeen naps.

[Stephanie]

24. Beef or halibut?

Fine wines? A woman is on NPR right now discussing the menu.

[Deja Q]

25. You're an awesome man, President Gates.

:puke:

How can you see a market in China when their piracy rate is NINETY PRECENT?

Treat them how you treat anyone else who sells pirated warez. And to those others you don't treat them like Hu... are you a coward?