100% budget cuts for PBS, NPR and NEA

[fhl]

Why would you expect any of these people to act unilaterally? Everyone should play by the same rules. Soros has been clear on this. He moved his Quantum Fund offshore because the rules permit it, and it is financially advantageous. Furthermore, he is among the most generous philanthropists on our planet. His philanthropy has had a huge positive impact on many lives in many different countries. He would be happy to pay higher tax rates, but only a fool would do so unilaterally.

If constant stories about how republicans are taking food stamps etc are used to attempt to prove that republicans are hypocrites, then Soros and Buffett are hypocrites, too. Right?

btw, as I said in another post, how hard would it have been for Soros to get any top democrat on the phone when democrats are in power and ask for a change in tax laws that would have forced him to actually pay these taxes that he so admires? Do you think perhaps that democrats know his pleas to the public are nothing but a farce to fool people?

And if he's doing such good things with his philanthropy, why do countries keep kicking him out? Don't they like philanthropy?

 

[piezoe]

And if he's doing such good things with his philanthropy, why do countries keep kicking him out? Don't they like philanthropy?

That's an easy one to answer. His open Society initiative gets shut down by the governments in totalitarian States. But his foundation doesn't give up easily. Open Societies are all about personal freedom and democratic process. Totalitarians running police states don't like this! Make a list of the countries he has been kicked out of. You'll find they are right wing fascist States. At the moment his foundation is having trouble in Hungary. Check out the current right wing government there and their curtailment of personal freedoms!

If you really want to know about Open Societies there are many good books available. https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+popper+books&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Also there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies

When you are reading Popper, you are reading Soros. Soros, as a young man studying at the LSE, was profoundly influenced by Popper .

 

[piezoe]

how hard would it have been for Soros to get any top democrat on the phone when democrats are in power and ask for a change in tax laws

You can read about his many attempts to influence government policy in books, both by him and about him. (See Amazon under Soros.) Although I know a great deal about Soros, having read a number of his books, I am not inclined to go into depth with those who are ignorant of his philosophy and ideas. He is a complicated and brilliant man, one that can't be summarized in a few sentences. If you really want to learn about him, than it is best if you read what he himself has written. Pay no attention to the absurd disinformation that clogs the internet and quite often pops up here..

 

[fhl]

That's an easy one to answer. His open Society initiative gets shut down by the governments in totalitarian States. But his foundation doesn't give up easily. Open Societies are all about personal freedom and democratic process. Totalitarians running police states don't like this! Make a list of the countries he has been kicked out of. You'll find they are right wing fascist States. At the moment his foundation is having trouble in Hungary. Check out the current right wing government there and their curtailment of personal freedoms!

If you really want to know about Open Societies there are many good books available. https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+popper+books&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Also there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies

When you are reading Popper, you are reading Soros. Soros, as a young man studying at the LSE, was profoundly influenced by Popper .

What's philanthropic about attempting to change a country's political structure?
Philanthropy is about charity, and no gov't is going to turn down charitable contributions.
But when the money is used to try to change the political structure of a country, it's a political operation, not a philanthropy. And most countries will resist.

If a church was sending food and clothes to people in need, that would be a philanthropic thing to do. If they went into a country and started preaching the gospel, it wouldn't be called philanthropy, it would be called evangelism.
And when Soros sends money into a country to set up organizations to change laws and elect new leaders, that's not philanthropy. That's called political activism.

Just calling him a philanthropist is all you need to know that he and his followers are nothing but frauds from top to bottom.

 

[piezoe]

What's philanthropic about attempting to change a country's political structure?
Philanthropy is about charity, and no gov't is going to turn down charitable contributions.
But when the money is used to try to change the political structure of a country, it's a political operation, not a philanthropy. And most countries will resist.

If a church was sending food and clothes to people in need, that would be a philanthropic thing to do. If they went into a country and started preaching the gospel, it wouldn't be called philanthropy, it would be called evangelism.
And when Soros sends money into a country to set up organizations to change laws and elect new leaders, that's not philanthropy. That's called political activism.

Just calling him a philanthropist is all you need to know that he and his followers are nothing but frauds from top to bottom.

I don't want to be uncharitable, but I can't help but observe that your responses seem to be those of someone with a very meager education.

From Merriam Webster,
philanthropy: the practice of giving money and time to help make life better for other people —

Philanthropy encompasses a very wide range of activities. Soros is, and has been, involved in many philanthropic activities, activities that go far beyond his philanthropic founding of the Open Society Foundations. He is arguably the most generous and important living philanthropist.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/helping-balkans-survive-decade-war

http://balkanist.net/the-art-of-remembering-soros-realism-in-sarajevo/

http://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-without-borders-macedonia-soros-sarajevo-baez/27745323.html

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainm...ciple-a-billionaires-plan-to-change-the-world

https://books.google.com/books?id=W1Jn4zYBom8C&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Soros+and+Sarajevo&source=bl&ots=q2yo1hPk4g&sig=RVoChz0-3ofG3X31VGE2D12LwLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCi4bxz-jSAhWE1IMKHTZMDiUQ6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=Soros and Sarajevo&f=false

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/11/22/saving-sarajevo-from-below

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/opinion/l-bosnians-not-serbs-shut-off-sarajevo-water-471119.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/world/soros-gives-250-million-to-university-in-europe.html

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Soros's spectacularly generous aid to people around the world continues. I will also add that he put himself at great personal risk flying into Sarajevo at the height of the crisis. Thank you Mr. Soros for everything you have done for others and our world.

 

[Wallet]

I don't want to be uncharitable, but I can't help but observe that your responses seem to be those of someone with a very meager education.

From Merriam Webster,
philanthropy: the practice of giving money and time to help make life better for other people —

Philanthropy encompasses a very wide range of activities. Soros is, and has been, involved in many philanthropic activities, activities that go far beyond his philanthropic founding of the Open Society Foundations. He is arguably the most generous and important living philanthropist.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/helping-balkans-survive-decade-war

http://balkanist.net/the-art-of-remembering-soros-realism-in-sarajevo/

http://www.rferl.org/a/balkans-without-borders-macedonia-soros-sarajevo-baez/27745323.html

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainm...ciple-a-billionaires-plan-to-change-the-world

https://books.google.com/books?id=W1Jn4zYBom8C&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Soros+and+Sarajevo&source=bl&ots=q2yo1hPk4g&sig=RVoChz0-3ofG3X31VGE2D12LwLY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCi4bxz-jSAhWE1IMKHTZMDiUQ6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=Soros and Sarajevo&f=false

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/11/22/saving-sarajevo-from-below

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/08/opinion/l-bosnians-not-serbs-shut-off-sarajevo-water-471119.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/world/soros-gives-250-million-to-university-in-europe.html

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Soros's spectacularly generous aid to people around the world continues. I will also add that he put himself at great personal risk flying into Sarajevo at the height of the crisis. Thank you Mr. Soros for everything you have done for others and our world.

I can't find the sarcasm note, you're joking right?

 

[Snarkhund]

lol yes somehow objecting to paying for leftist propaganda makes me an uneducated fellow.

I've got a pile of degrees piezoe but I don't wrap myself up in them as my identity as you do. An educated man doesn't flaunt it in everyone's face constantly. You've got a PhD but it could be in english literature as far as anyone here knows. It means you did some original work on some narrow subject. It doesn't mean that you are all knowing sir.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Thank you Mr. Soros for everything you have done for others and our world.

He is an evil POS who should be rotting in a jail somewhere in eastern europe, and with any luck, will be one day. He has spent incredible sums of money to try to alter the US in ways that would destroy our country, which is no doubt his aim. If Trump were half the fascist you imagine him to be, he would have had this traitor locked or worse on day one.

 

[piezoe]

He is an evil POS who should be rotting in a jail somewhere in eastern europe, and with any luck, will be one day. He has spent incredible sums of money to try to alter the US in ways that would destroy our country, which is no doubt his aim. If Trump were half the fascist you imagine him to be, he would have had this traitor locked or worse on day one.

You are entitled to your opinion, one which I don't share. But posting not opinion, but innuendo and disinformation, as though it were factual, as one of the participants in this forum has, is something I will respond to by correcting the record. The most charitable thing I could say about such a person is that they are either ill informed or something much worse. In the present case, the poster's ignorance is inexcusable, because it takes only a trivial effort to research the facts.

 

[achilles28]

You are entitled to your opinion, one which I don't share. But posting not opinion, but innuendo and disinformation, as though it were factual, as one of the participants in this forum has, is something I will respond to by correcting the record. The most charitable thing I could say about such a person is that they are either ill informed or something much worse. In the present case, the poster's ignorance is inexcusable, because it takes only a trivial effort to research the facts.

And what "facts" are those?

Soros has funneled tens of millions into Black Lives Matter, think tanks/political groups that promote the Muzzie invasion/mass raping of Europe, political destabilization in eastern European states (Ukraine, Georgia, Crimea etc).

Do you consider the above examples of his "philanthropic" activity?