40 billionaires commit to giving most of their money away . . . well sort of.
When you read these letters of commitment to The Giving Pledge, (a few yet to come), almost all billionaire pundits wrote how they wanted to help the world's humanity through investments into such areas as breast cancer research, global warming technology, auto-emission standards, vaccines, medical research, etc., while others simply suggested donating to far-left universities for social issues. One wanted to put computers in classrooms while another provided for the normal endowments to the "arts". One even mentioned social justice by name (not by how), while another praised the far-left United Nations.
The UN, as you may know, is an organization whose Iraqi Food for Oil program was the biggest money give-away scheme in human history, only discovered when Bush attacked Saddam's regime. Up to then liberals had slobbered over what a wonderful program the UN had developed to help those poor "women and children" in Iraq. And in other programs the UN administrators have been found literally raping the people they were supposed to help. But again, it's not my money that is being given away.
I must report there were only three out of the forty who were giving to real-life efforts you could put your arms around, such as helping the poor NOW through donations to Catholic Schools, Boy's Clubs, and training schools to help single mothers start their own small businesses for self-achievement. Only these three were my heroes, immediately drilling down to the street level . . . or as they say in the corporate world getting down to business.
But not one mentioned protecting the Constitution and its founder's dedication to a Republic, which is only through a deity guaranteeing individual rights, never man as in a faux democracy.
And not one dime was allocated to help lone organizations that directly help the poor such as the Salvation Army, which is always struggling. Nor the Boy Scouts, which mentors America's men for tomorrow's ethical challenges in life and in business, or the Samaritan's Purse which helps in disasters all over the world without regard to religion. There was also no mention of giving to online degree high school programs earned at home so students could be pulled from America's failing liberal drug-filled "state-run" schools.
And there was no mention of helping those injured in battle giving their lives and bodies for freedom to others whom have never experienced it, organizations such as the Wounded Warriors, Honor and Remember, or Homes for Our Troops, or Operational International Children founded by Gary Sinise and others, to name a few.
Basically, if I can be frank, except for the three that talked about helping real humans at the ground level, the rest were basically focused on "I" and not "We" along with worldly politically-correct nonsense and grand platitudes.
Or as my deceased Swedish father would have put it, "It's just the hoi polloi," one who had part ownership in the 1980s of the former Lugene Optics next to the Taboo on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach . Having served on Okinawa in WWII, he is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery with those who understood real sacrifice.
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