HarvDog Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Gates to leave day-to-day role at Microsoft Charity, huh? Send some of those millions this way!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjones Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down yeah it mut be hard having the title richest man in the world!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down Harv, that man could every member here, a gift of 5 million apiece and it still wouldn't make a dent in his fortune... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HAWG Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down Yeah I could a set of brakes ad an oil change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down [ QUOTE ] yeah it mut be hard having the title richest man in the world!!! [/ QUOTE ] LOL...I've heard he has more money than the Country of Peru His money...Entire Countries Envy [ QUOTE ] "I believe with great wealth comes great responsibility - the responsibility to give back to society and make sure those resources are given back in the best possible way, to those in need," he said. [/ QUOTE ] To whom Much is given- Much is expected None of us are poor...we have life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down It isn't worth his time too bend over and pick up a hundred dollar bill if it was laying on the street ... now thats not to say he wouldn't pay a person to do it lol ... but he makes that much money ... I guess hes happy ... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down I read the Time article about him one day in the Doc's office. I think Bill is the biggest philanthropist in the world, history of the world too. I agree with GW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down Personally, I have nothing but the utmost respect for the man... * $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. * $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. * $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America’s K-12 education, starting in Washington State. * $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.” * $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. * $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health. * $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine. * $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. * $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation. * $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea. * $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus. * $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation. * $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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down Also have a lot of respect for the man and what he has done for himself and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down [ QUOTE ] Also have a lot of respect for the man and what he has done for himself and others. [/ QUOTE ] Ditto Along with wealth, comes a great responsibility. If all the wealthy were as giving as Bill Gates, the world would be a better place. Not only has he stepped up to the plate, but if you go through that list, you'll find they are all worthy causes. Unlike some of the movie stars in Hollywood. You don't see any of his money going to PETA, ELF, etc ....Thank God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughboy1956 Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down I feel sorry for the poor guy stepping down. Wonder how he will make a living now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down i respect the guy as well, not only because he gives so much to charity but hes not some spoiled rich brat who inherited his money, he earned every dime of it and changed the way the whole world operates.Well him and Al Gore for inventing the internet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unioncountyslayer Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Re: Bill Gates Stepping Down You would think that he could afford a decent hair cut though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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