More than a third of living donors of a $1 billion or more are Jews
The list gurus at Forbes this week came out with their latest list – living billionaires who have given away at least $1 billion.
Not sure if it is suprising or not, but the list includes only 14 names.
- Bill Gates - $28 billion
- George Soros - $7.2 billion
- Gordon Moore - $6.8 billion
- Warren Buffett -- $6.7 billion
- Eli Broad -- $2 billion
- James Towers -- $1.9 billion
- Herbert and Marion Sandler -- $1.5 billion
- Michael Bloomberg -- $1.5 billion
- Li Ka-shing -- $1.37 billion
- Dietmar Hopp -- $1.25 billion
- Michael Dell -- $1.2 billion
- Klaus Tschira -- $1.1 billion
- Stephan Schmidheiny -- $1 billion
- Ted Turner -- $1 billion
The story is quick to point out a few trends – namely the high number of Americans, 45 percent, on the list. And that all but one of the billionaires on the list, Stephan Schmidheiny, are self made, and that five made their fortunes in technology.
Well, Forbes seems to have missed another trend among the billionaire donors – more than a third of the list is made up of Jews, as Soros, Broad, the Sandlers, Bloomberg and Dell are all Jews.
Come on Forbes, after Madoff and the Jersey money laundering rabbis, we can use all the positive PR we can get.
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Jacob, cold comfort indeed. Post hoc charity to buy indulgence
is not equal to nor the equivalent of an apriori expectation, dare
I say commandment, to do tzedakah. The latter is incumbent on
a people to pursue justice that may require sacrifice to living a
life of a multi-millionaire. Gates eg. tied up the courts to pursue
his monopoly and Soros shorted currency (not necessarily bad)
to acquire his gambling money that supports anti-Zionist fops.
Eli likes art too much given the general welfare dysfunction and
though Ron is not on the list, Lauder ironically expends $100 mil
for a Klimnt who I guess is valued simply because why? willing
buyer for a willing seller? and that other Austrian Hitler rejected.
Go figure then go and learn. Torah emet. Nitzavim. Deut. 30:14
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blackie
08/26/09 08:07 PM
Of course, you won’t find the name of even one Muslim on this list...so much for the “religion of peace”!