Bloomberg and his billions

[togor]

Here in Central NJ cash strapped Rider University tried to sell the prestigious Westminster Choir College. Asking price, $40M. Bloomberg or Steyer could have preserved an educational institution.

So could lots of rich guys. What's your point?

[blackhawknj]

They both spent vast amounts of money earned in the private sector to get the nomination of the Big Government/High Taxation/Micromanage People's Lives Party, and part of the Party's platform is we're never spending enough on education.
Milton Friedman said it best: "Do gooders are free to do all the good they want-with their own money."
And:
"The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny."

[togor]

They both spent vast amounts of money earned in the private sector to get the nomination of the Big Government/High Taxation/Micromanage People's Lives Party, and part of the Party's platform is we're never spending enough on education.
Milton Friedman said it best: "Do gooders are free to do all the good they want-with their own money."
And:
"The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny."

So....education should be paid for by letting rich guys get really rich and the expecting (requiring?) them to donate it back?

I understand your point, but Bloomberg-rich guys will choose their own vanity projects, be it a political campaign, a sports franchise, a kick-ass yacht, or a bunch of buildings with their name on it. If regular people want education to be a public priority, then they have the traditional means available to them, which starts with who they elect for government office.

[rayg]

In this country... Rich Guys, Poor Guys, or any one else, can do whatever they want with their money... what's the problem with that.....After taxes that is!...Lol

[dryheat]

If I had 500 billion I skip right over the politics. I raise a huge army and then we'd do things my way.

[shadycon]

If I had 500 billion I skip right over the politics. I raise a huge army and then we'd do things my way.

And add to the violence?

[togor]

And add to the violence?

Only for a little while!

[shadycon]

Only for a little while!

More violence=more gun laws in my opinion! You must be anti-gun!

[Dolt]

We've been told money=speech and corporations=people. Loudest voice wins.

An M1A 308 is pretty damn loud, you have to admit.