Bill Gates and his fortune...!!!

Originally Posted by Iceman

Actually, Bill Gates has made a will to give most of his money to charity. His children will only get a small (on his scale) amount, most will go to chariteis. Plus the man donates millions and millions for charity each year, more than any of us will ever earn. So don't start blaming him, he's doing his part, are you doing yours?

* $1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.
* $750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
* $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America’s K-12 education, starting in Washington State.
* $200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America’s poorest communities in an effort to close the “digital divide.”
* $100 million to the Gates Children’s Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
* $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
* $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
* $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
* $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
* $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
* $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
* $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
* $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.


Ice

Originally Posted by "spunkywho

By no means do I want to minimize Gates' donations, but you have to admit that these $$ are merely pocket change for him. The above numbers add up to 2.7 billion --- maybe third of what he makes in one day (if the numbers are accurate). I can tell you that I donate more than one days worth of work to charities on an annual basis and I am not even a big donor.

Fact is that given his riches he doesn't spend nearly enough on charity, imo.

Also, I remember a time when the public put tremendous pressure on him to START donating some of his money as he avoided the issue for the longest time.

You have to realize that every public figure and particularly so somebody of the stature as Bill Gates HAS to donate to charity - not for moral reasons but for business reasons.

What would be interesting to see is how much taxes he actually pays --- bet you, not much - given his wealth (if any at all).

Originally Posted by RS8MB0R8

Exactly - there is a difference between wanting to donate money to charity and feeling obliged to give money to charity.

Originally Posted by spunkywho

The above numbers add up to 2.7 billion --- maybe third of what he makes in one day (if the numbers are accurate).

Originally Posted by allmike

I thought ur against Microsoft :P

Originally Posted by Iceman

I'm not against Microsoft, I'm against monopolies. And IE just happens to be unsafe as well. In fact, the Finnish agency of communication just gave a warning telling anyone using IE to switch browsers until it's fixed.

Ice

Originally Posted by allmike

Lol i was kidding. But its funny to see spunkywho is arguing against Bill gate and ur for :P

Originally Posted by Iceman

I'm not so much _for_ Bill Gates as I'm against the attitude people have towards rich people who've earned their fortune and not inherited it. Gates has worked his ass off and now he's getting paid. He's going to give most of his money to charity and he gives 50% of what he earns already. And still people like Spunky and UK say he should give more. Where's the sense in that? If you're rich, why shouldn't you be allowed to earn money? He pays his taxes, he helps people out and still some consider him a satan. Doesn't sound too reasonable to me.

Ice

Originally Posted by allmike

I heard about lot of people saying him as anti christ or something, any reason for that??.