Can Bill and Malinda Gates possibly spend enouph of that great fortune to do any good?
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It seems to me that they are being very responsible.
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I think Bill Gate's WIFE should get the prize.  He was a cheap, money hoarding nerd until he married her.  Never gave a penny to anyone else.  Marriage and kids have made him see there are others in the world besides himself.
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It definatly is NOT BILL GATES with his 50 billion or so.\n\nI would have to say Lord Rothschild of the UK. His family has been billionairs before computers were even invented. He is so rich and controls so much wealth he can even hide it from the mainstream press. His family helped set up the FEDERAL RESEVE BANK and is one of the prime stock holders. Think about that since 1913 he and his family have been making money from the Federal Reserves loans. Who do you think we owe our national debt too? Its sad how uninformed the vast majority of americans are. Our debt is in the trillions every year we pay hundreds of billions to service that debt, Mr. Rothschild gets, via the corporations he is on the board of (board members are owners) a fat chunk of those intrest payments into his coffers each year. The Federal Reserve has NEVER been subject to an external audit, so its not known just how rich the stock holders are.
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Of course Bill Gate Chairman of Microsoft.\nlet me tell you some facts about Him and his wealth...Read it carefull ok-\nRead it completely. \n\n1. Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND, that's about $20 million a DAY\nand $7.8 billion a YEAR! \n\n2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up because in the 4 seconds it takes to pick it up, he would have already\nEarned it back. \n\n3. U.S's national debt is about $5.62 trillion. If Bill Gates wants to\npay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years. \n\n4. He can donate $15 to everyone on earth and still be left with $5\nmillion for his pocket money. \n\n5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in the U.S. If he\ndoesn't drink and eat, and keep his annual income at $30 million,\nhe'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is today. \n\n6. If Bill Gates were a country, he will be the 37th richest country on earth. \n\n7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to $1 bills, you can make a\nroad from earth to moon 14 times back and forth. But you will have to\nmake that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING \n747 planes to transport all the money. \n\n8. Bill Gates will be 42 this year. If we assume that he still can\nlive for another 35 years, he has to spend $6.78 million per day to\nfinish his money before his death. \n\nThe Best Part…………………….. \n\n9. BUT!!! If we the Microsoft Windows users claim $1 for every time\ntheir computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will go\nbankrupt in 3 years. \n\nHope you like it... please send me your comments at mohitmadaan@gmail.com
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only if he made enough money to support all of us.
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This is an question ans the answer is over a million dollars. or 2 to the thirthy power. Can type it in right.
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SOME RICH PEOPLE DO THAT, & SOME CELEBRITIES TOO, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY RICH PERSON OR EVERY CELEBRITIE LIKES TO, OR ENJOYS RUNNING OTHER PEOPLES LIVES. SO WITH THAT STATEMENT, YOU ARE NOT 100% CORRECT.\n\nFOR EXAMPLE: BILL GATES ( CO-FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT/WINDOWS ) ALSO A MULTI-BILLIONARE AND IF NOT THE RICHEST MAN IN THE USA THEN PRETTY DAMN CLOSE ........\nHE & HIS WIFE HELP WITH SO MANY CHARITABLE BENEFIT PROGRAMS FOR VARIOUS CAUSES...AND BILL GATES ALSO DONATED $45 BILLION DOLLARS FOR A CHARITY THAT HIS WIFE HAD STARTED ALSO HELPS UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD AND HAS RECENTLY SAID THAT " IF THOSE OF US WHO HAVE MONEY AND DON'T USE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO HELP OUT AND BENEFIT MANKIND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, THEN WHAT IS THE POINT OF MAKING THE MONEY IF YOU CAN'T HELP BETTER THE WORLD WITH IT." - BILL GATES \n\nSO YOU SHOULD REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR COMMENT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT REALLY THE CASE MAY BE. * YOU SOUND SOMEWHAT BITTER ABOUT RICH PEOPLE AND CELEBRITIES...HOW ABOUT YOU NOT BEING A HATER SO MUCH??
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I doubt if it's anywhere near what Bill Gates earns.
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I THINK IT IS A BUNCH OF CROCK TOO.....  I think that it is just one rich man finding a way to get out of paying something, taxes, a lawsuit, something, by way of giving his money to another rich man.  I am sure that we are going to hear "the rest of the story"  in the months to come.  Also, exactly what does these "charities"fund???? I am struggling and could use some of these dollars that are so easily being passed around.  You have inspired me, i am going to investigate exactly what the gates foundation does!!!!!
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Bill Gates has helped many organizations that have helped many people. I would like to see Bill's money used to help individuals, such as homeless veterans, homeless children, the elders who have no family to take care of them, \n to help the family of policemen and firemen who lose their lives in the line of duty, and families of our servicemen who are away serving our country. I cut coupons for servicemen wives to use to go shopping with to help cut their grocery bills.\nOf course, I could use some of him money too, to do some house repairs.
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i think its worth one dollar more than bill gates fortune.
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It's possible...if you're the son of Bill Gates. And if you hide it from the government and the catholic church.
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Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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If they have the highest bid?  Yes!
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The money wasn't given to Gates. It was given to the BIll and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a charitable organization. Charitable organizations have very strict rules they need to follow. \n\nGates owns 977,924,402 shares of MSFT. Even if they dropped to $1/share, he's still wouldn't be hurting for cash.\n\nWhere is Gates giving his money?\n$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. \n$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. \n$350 million  over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America’s K-12 education, starting in Washington State. \n$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.” \n$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. \n$50 million  to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health. \n$50 million  to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine. \n$50 million  to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. \n$50 million  to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation. \n$40 million  to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea. \n$28 million  to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. \n$25 million  to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation. \n$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. \n\nIn January, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation edged past Britain’s Wellcome Trust to become the largest in the world, with assets of $21.8 billion. Even the greatest philanthropists of the past did not give away as much in real dollars over their entire lifetimes as Gates has at the age of 44, and this was before Buffett signed on.
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Bill Gates and his wife have been giving billions of dollars away
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Yes,  yes, and YES! They both are from oil families who's fortunes depend on getting as much money as possible from oil.