New Posts For Thread: Billionaires pledge to donate fortunes to charityhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charityMore than three dozen billionaires representing some of America's wealthiest individuals and families pledged to donate half their wealth to charity. They joined Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor, who are America's two weThis thread has been moved from Hot Topics Zone. --- agnosticspirit - Bnet community cohosthttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=461978981#461978981This thread has been moved from Hot Topics Zone. --- agnosticspirit - Bnet community cohostSun, 15 Aug 2010 12:16:10 -0500LOL, yeah, there's no greater charity than the "Me Charity".[/quote]Ah, another one I see. Pretty soon, we'll be organized.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460971697#460971697LOL, yeah, there's no greater charity than the "Me Charity".[/quote]Ah, another one I see. Pretty soon, we'll be organized.Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:33:37 -0500Even before Cesmom's post I thought most of this money would go to their own foundations and charities. Hatman, you posted a lot to think about. These times they are a changin'.Lyrics by Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin'http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460970053#460970053Even before Cesmom's post I thought most of this money would go to their own foundations and charities. Hatman, you posted a lot to think about. These times they are a changin'.Lyrics by Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin'Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:19:46 -0500THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONSLets start our time machine. We turn the dial to the year 1954 and, suddenly, we find ourselves in the plush offices of the Ford Foundation in New York. We see two men seated at a large, Mahogany desk, and thttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460654845#460654845THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONSLets start our time machine. We turn the dial to the year 1954 and, suddenly, we find ourselves in the plush offices of the Ford Foundation in New York. We see two men seated at a large, Mahogany desk, and tFri, 06 Aug 2010 09:42:48 -0500i, too, would be MOST interested in the list of "qualified recipients" of such largess, directly due to cites like these:"We operate here under directives which emulate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate ishttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460654013#460654013i, too, would be MOST interested in the list of "qualified recipients" of such largess, directly due to cites like these:"We operate here under directives which emulate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate isFri, 06 Aug 2010 09:36:39 -0500Well, there are a lot of stories of people broke after winning the lottery because they thought the same thing. Once they had the $25 million yacht and all those homes, etc, they underestimated how much it would cost to continue having those things.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460645441#460645441Well, there are a lot of stories of people broke after winning the lottery because they thought the same thing. Once they had the $25 million yacht and all those homes, etc, they underestimated how much it would cost to continue having those things.Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:32:20 -0500Warren Buffett has always had plans to contribute a great deal of his fortune to charity, and Gates has done a lot of work in this arena. They appear to be working to get other extremely wealthy folks to jump on the bandwagon.Mr. Buffett plans to gihttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460645153#460645153Warren Buffett has always had plans to contribute a great deal of his fortune to charity, and Gates has done a lot of work in this arena. They appear to be working to get other extremely wealthy folks to jump on the bandwagon.Mr. Buffett plans to giFri, 06 Aug 2010 08:29:58 -0500Well, in fact, many billionaires do give substantial sums of money already. Well, why not, they can certainly afford it. It's not like this will impoverish them.One caveat in the present case, however, is that some of this giving is not going to behttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460644225#460644225Well, in fact, many billionaires do give substantial sums of money already. Well, why not, they can certainly afford it. It's not like this will impoverish them.One caveat in the present case, however, is that some of this giving is not going to beFri, 06 Aug 2010 08:21:13 -0500You know, if you come right down to it, I'll bet that if all those billionaires got together and pooled their considerable resources, they could probably send a check to every needy family in the U.S.They could set up some sort of central clearing-hohttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460570597#460570597You know, if you come right down to it, I'll bet that if all those billionaires got together and pooled their considerable resources, they could probably send a check to every needy family in the U.S.They could set up some sort of central clearing-hoThu, 05 Aug 2010 17:17:36 -0500LOL, yeah, there's no greater charity than the "Me Charity".http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43971/25550661/Billionaires_pledge_to_donate_fortunes_to_charity?post_id=460567105#460567105LOL, yeah, there's no greater charity than the "Me Charity".Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:55:00 -0500