If Bloomberg helps us, that is great work by a billionaire as well.

My governor, JB Pritzker, is a billionaire. He is helping my state, and he is standing up to the orange madman.

Many actually do good for us.

Yes, there is a huge income disparity, however to call them all evil is just not right.

Nobody cares what he wants, particularly since he does nothing of consequence. With the possible exception of aiding Trump by attaking the 'Democratic Establishment' wih might and main....




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

He talks the talk, yet never walked the walk. My Senator Elizabeth Warren accomplished more before she ever won her Senate seat. CFPB was her baby and she made it happen.

doing more for the World than those who want to get rid of them.

Thanks, she.

She passed on to her hospital. She is retired, yet my niece works in ICU.

in a perpetual state of protest against what and whom he opposes while offering Zilch hope, optimism, elbow grease.

It certainly doesn’t bring people together and nobody wins when we play the blame game. It makes me sad when there is so much need but little good will. I'm sad he seems to have lost most of his effectiveness. Becoming just a low pitched droning refrain void of any real effect or influence.

voila. Doesn’t have to do much else. Just rile up crowds against the other using the magic words, establishment, billionaire, DNC...True, he does offer policies but so joylessly, with such insistent anger.

Not.

Stay safe.

seems to me that Trump is doing a helluva lot more than Sanders ever could to eliminate some billionaires. And the stock futures right now are looking like there will be a few less after today.

Generally speaking, Harbor Freight sells a lot of junk...low quality stuff that doesn't last very long. But it's great for those folks who don't have a lot of money or only need a specific tool to use once or twice before it breaks or falls apart. We have one in town and will have to drop in to buy something to show my appreciation for what they're doing...once it's safe to go back out in 3 weeks or 3 months.

For the sake of our healthcare workers, sure hope HF's PPE is better than most of their tools.

What a contrast!



Thanks sheshe!

I question this dude's sanity sometimes...

Elon Musk: On Wednesday, March 18, Musk defied a sheriff’s order to “shelter-in-place” by keeping Tesla’s Fremont, California factory open, with employees being told the factory was “critical infrastructure.” After Tesla was confronted by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department that same day, the factory cut its onsite staff from 10,000 to 2,500. On Wednesday evening, Musk, who has previously dismissed the coronavirus panic as “dumb,” tweeted that Tesla would “make ventilators if there is a shortage.” He added on Friday, March 20, that he thinks the ventilators “probably won’t be needed.” Musk has since talked to ventilator manufacturer Medtronic.

Worrying about coronavirus is "dumb"...uh, okay Elon. Same guy who came up with his idiotic submarine idea when those kids were trapped in a cave in Thailand and when they politely declined he went off on them...

https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-pedophile-twitter-fight-20180715-story.html

His erratic behavior has also raised a few eyebrows with NASA and the USAF...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/air-force-is-looking-into-elon-musks-pot-smoking-source.html

Think he's spreading himself a little too thin running too many companies and his workload and stress gets to him. Got a coupla buddies and former workmates now at SpaceX and if they're as busy as they are then his schedule must be crushing.

Nice that all these rich folks are donating but IMO would be better for the government just to raise their taxes and put it where they thought it was best utilized. Not a big fan of relying on charity or the good will of a few individuals (some of them borderline batshit crazy like Musk) to decide where funds should go. Still better than nothing, I guess. But there are too many Carnegies and Rockefellers out there who think they can reap enormous wealth by whatever means including treating their workers like dirt and then clear their names by tossing a few bucks around to good causes.

... solving this crisis, with a promise of a lot more. He's also given more than $5 billion to various good causes in recent years.

Elon Musk contributed millions of masks and hundreds of ventilators this week.

Other billionaires have been doing likewise.

They're not hunkered down in their living rooms complaining about others. They're DOING something to help.

There are good peeps out there. Donating and never asking for anything in exchange. They donate because they love their country and the people above profit or political gain.

A left wing progressive news source that is pretty obvious in their support of Bernie.

The owner of the publication is the founder of EBay I believe.

Or are the billionaires who agree with Bernie going to be the last to go?

Harbor freight apparently has 1000 stores. Id bet money at least half were bought out of the items in question before this decision was made. To come up with a number, maybe 20 boxes of 10 masks at each remaining store, plus enough to restock each store from distribution centers. 300,000 masks. I figure this is probably a generous estimate, given the way things have been sold out over the past couple weeks.

That would be one mask per $10,000 of his fortune.

I donated more PPE, as compared by means. Far more.

Its nice that Eric is doing this. Its impressive compared to the very low bar set by companies such as Hobby Lobby or Goodwill. But its not all that impressive when I compare it to the sacrifices and efforts I see daily among people of extremely modest means within my community as we fall into this disaster Trump shoved the country into.

You don't know his inventory or what else he can get his hands on.

You are dissing a man that is doing something to protect the lives of our caregivers. Everything helps. I see generosity, he did not need to do anything. I am appalled by your post.

He in fact is doing something that the 'resident of the US is refusing to do, keeping our care givers safe. I have a caregiver in my family. She works in the ICU. She has children that are dear to me, she brings it home then they to may suffer.

Given that 3m, a main maker of the masks was apparently only able to donate 500k.. 300k seems like a generous estimate for a discount hardware chain. Especially given reports locally are that the store are still selling ppe to private parties, not holding them for donation. But even if it were somehow double, or even triple what I calculated.. It wouldnt change the basic math of the situation.

I am not dissing him. Im glad he is doing what he is doing. I just find it much more impressive when I see on my local face book group that a pair of disabled seniors on SSI are donating their stocks of PPE to the local hospital rather than keeping them for their own personal quite justified needs. The (in this case literal) widows pittance will always impress me more than a donation by a rich person, especially when the latter is in amounts that are pocket money for the rich person in question.

We need what everyone has to give. But I'm not going to give inflated high marks to billionaires who are doing what is for them comparatively equivalent having some pennies fall out of their pockets. Even at their best, they are not doing more than other people.

Its the People of this nation that will save us from this disaster Trump has shoved us into. Its your daughter and the rest of us in "essential" jobs that are throwing ourselves in the way of danger to make sure that people have the care and necessities that they need to try and survive this disease and the Trumpheaval surrounding it.

He suffers from an extreme case of plutophobia and he riles up some like-minded supporters.

Memes like "no one should be a billionaire" make me

Many of his supporters don't understand the concept of "paper money" - most billionaires are billionaires because of the value of the stock they own in the companies they started. If they sold it all at once , it won't be worth even 30 cents on the dollar.

The stock market crash eliminated about 29% of the world's billionaires as the value of their stock dropped below $1 billion.

Silly

Surely he can't be so deluded that he doesn't know it was the Democrats our new kleptocrat class feared and that they used him to stop the Democrats from getting power?

AND that they've been trying to repeat that great victory in 2020?

Or can he?

Again, just what IS the truth about a person when his actions consistently sabotage what he claims to support?

It may be that Sanders literally cannot make the connection between his actions and their consequences. There are people like that, and they're not even all that uncommon.