<p>What makes this “captialism at its best”?</p>
<p>Hey, it worked, didn’t it, so why are you knocking it? </p>
<p>For the record, if my kid wants to come live at home after graduation, that’s just fine with me. I hope you can say the same. Mom doesn’t know the CEO of IBM, though.</p>
<p>“If you’re going to pick on anyone, why not Paris Hilton?”</p>
<p>Who’s pickin’ on anyone? An urban legend filled with deliberate falsehoods was posted as post #1, and I would think how Bill got to make his fortune should be of significant interest to future corporate socialists.</p>
<p>Note tie-in with affirmative action thread.</p>
<p>Im not bashing Bill Gates- I like his dad quite a bit and and I think he and Melinda are doing a great job raising their kids …considering.</p>
<p>I think though that it would be naive to ignore that for Bill to do so well- considering his advantages is still noteworthy, but he did have what sounds like a good foundation to take risks.</p>
<p>For students whose families are not so well set up, there may be more pressure to earn money, rather than take a gamble.</p>
<p>I know I am pretty nervous myself- we can’t afford to help our daughters beyond helping them go to college. I think we tried everything, to get them as good of an education as we could, but we don’t have money to help them with a start up, or even with grad school or a house.</p>
<p>I think the next 4 years or so, will even be harder than getting her through college, because I will wonder if it is worth it, or if she will be like my former CFO brother in law, who is selling health ins.</p>
<p>Not that I expect her to make a lot of money- but I would like her to be able to support herself, doing something that is related to something that she is interesed in and good at, and maybe even make enough money to buy a condo someday.( and have health ins)</p>
<p>( I would be happy to have my D live at home- but I think she feels like * been there-done that* I can’t blame her- its hardly the Taj Mahal, and it is hard to be an adult and live with your parents- although frankly, there are more jobs in Seattle- she could live here and get experience till she has enough to move up…except I started making her bedroom into a home gym… should I stop?)</p>
<p>aries, I agree with you. The sour grapes (of the very green variety!) are abundant on CC. I say bravo to Bill and Melinda Gates, and to their buddy, Warren Buffett. What they’re doing is admirable and will make a tremendous difference in the world.</p>
<p>“( I would be happy to have my D live at home- but I think she feels like been there-done that I can’t blame her- its hardly the Taj Mahal, and it is hard to be an adult and live with your parents- although frankly, there are more jobs in Seattle- she could live here and get experience till she has enough to move up…except I started making her bedroom into a home gym… should I stop?)”</p>
<p>Hey, it’s only for 6 years. And if you die earlier for lack of the gym, she gets to inherit the house, right? ;)</p>
<p>“aries, I agree with you. The sour grapes (of the very green variety!) are abundant on CC. I say bravo to Bill and Melinda Gates, and to their buddy, Warren Buffett. What they’re doing is admirable and will make a tremendous difference in the world.”</p>
<p>Agreed, but it has nothing to do with bogus list in Post #1.</p>
<p>I think the Gates foundation is certainly making a difference- unfortunately- in our school system- I have seen schools count on the funding they are receiving from Gates- but when the district ignores that there are restrictions and requirements for that money- the money is then taken away.
Not that is the Gates foundations fault- but I hope they work more closely with educators in a way that can make some real changes for students.</p>
<p>mini- I don’t really get the 6 years?</p>
<p>“What they are doing is admirable and will make a tremendous difference in the world.”</p>
<p>Anybody know that they ARE doing, EXACTLY?</p>
<p>11.5 billion from Buffett to Ford Foundation - for what, again?</p>
<p>Feel free, anybody with inside info, to tell us, since so far we’re just supposed to be falling down here, grateful as all get out!</p>
<p>The idea of ONE or TWO human beings with BIG BIG bucks attempting to rearrange the world according to their idea of what it should be is not scary to anyone but me?</p>
<p>Sure does hs,</p>
<p>But GWB did kind of grow on me after a while. ;)</p>
<p>The Ford Foundation has been involved in development in many parts of the world. This includes advocating for minority rights in Third World countries, including places where tribal communities are being displaced by governments acting in cahoots with timber companies to take over tribal lands; reproductive rights and maternal health; human rights; environmental issues; education. There are other priorities, depending on the countries in which Ford is active.</p>
<p>The Gates Foundation and the Ford Foundation have many similar goals. By giving 11.5 billions to the Ford Foundation, Buffett is true to his agenda.</p>
<p>“mini- I don’t really get the 6 years?”</p>
<p>The number of years Billy lived at home with momma after dropping out of school.</p>
<p>EK:</p>
<p>Our school at one point considered applying for a Gates grant. In fact, it received a pilot grant to see if it would be feasible to break the school into autonomous small schools of 400 students each. A majority of parents were against the autonomous schools, so the grant was not pursued. We now have small learning communities with their own deans and GCs and some core teachers, but with flexibility for students to take classes in other learning communities as necessary. I thought that the Gates model was too rigid. I hope that over time, the Gates Foundation learns from its experiences and becomes less rigid.</p>
<p>Dadguy: Don’t try to pigeonhole me - I abhor NCLB, one of GWB’s efforts to “reach across the aisle,” for example. ;)</p>
<p>(It’s HH as in Here’s hoping, not HS as in here shopping btw).</p>
<p>Pigeonhole you? How could I, you’re inscruitable!</p>
<p>I am less worried about rich guys doing some social engineering in the open than the rich guys are try do it in secret.</p>
<p>You do have a point there :)</p>
<p>Lol! My physics teacher has this set of rules in his classroom.</p>
<p>I like Warren Buffet a lot. I don’t really agree with his politics, but I respect the man because he puts his money where his mouth is.</p>
<p>hereshoping, I’m more familiar with the work the Gates Foundation has done in the area of health rather than education, and you can read about it on their website. It’s quite interesting.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/[/url]”>http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/</a></p>
<p>There is also information about the other areas of involvement, too. I don’t see it as anyone trying to ‘rearrange the world’ but I suppose it could be viewed that way. However, if the assistance they’re bringing to world health issues fits that description, then that aspect of the ‘world’ was in definite need of rearranging.</p>
<p>Thank you for the link, AAM. I will look at it.</p>
<p>I jsut read a funny and this seemed like a good place to share.
BILL GATES TO LEAVE MICROSOFT IN 2008
- Software analysts predict actual departure in 2010*
<a href=“http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/06/user-friendly-bill-gates-departure.html[/url]”>http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/06/user-friendly-bill-gates-departure.html</a></p>