Aug 15, 2011

Buffett Doesn't Get It

Warren Buffett made a quote today...
"While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks... My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."
~ Warren Buffett in a New York Times op-ed called "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich"

Here's the deal, Warren Buffet is to the Left what Donald Trump is to the Right - nuts. But why not put your money where your mouth is, Warren, and build some libraries ala Andrew Carnegie? Or fund a watchdog group to cut down on government waste?

My contention and gripe here is - if you feed the tumor more money, no matter who's it is or where it was earned - you're not solving the government spending problem. You're feeding the damn tumor.

1 comment:

Joshamania said...

Just an fyi but Buffett has already put quite a bit of scratch where his mouth is.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/

By the time he's rotting, he'll have given something like $30 billion to Bill & Mindy's eradicated-aids-malaria-and-polio fund.