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eadndel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:55:28 -0500

AFRICA WILL NOT BE FIXED BY Africans - If we are to close the gap between the" haves" and the "Have nots" in this world then we need to all help each other irrespective of race or ethnic background. Gates has the billions to assist those with the ideas and the energy to improve the lot of the bottom 2 billion people suffering in extreme poverty. I, like many educators in the field of Technology, can see the sense in allowing the rich to pay a poor tax to close this gap. A recent trip to schools in the poorest slum areas of Thailand and Vietnam have made me very aware that it will take not just money and intelligence but passion and energy to deliver sustainable health and education programs to the neediest areas of the third world.

Leave Africa to Africans!

Gerard — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:30:59 -0500

Free Enterprise|Bill Gates|Kinder Capitalism! This from a man who masterminded & perfected FUD - Fear, Uncertainty,Doubt i.r.o. his Windows OS = Billions of personal & business $! BG is Impatient with "capitalism"? Now that he & his ilk are supposedly RICH, he has the resources to dictate to others, after pursuing his brand of volatile capitalism! The march for untapped markets continues - those with money can do ANYTHING, especially much more harm than good!

Bill Gates Issues Call for Kinder Capitalism

Rob Katz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:14:49 -0500

January 24, 2008 - 09:00, Wall Street Journal

Bill Gates Issues Call for Kinder Capitalism

Story Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120113473219511791.html

Teaser:
Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a "creative capitalism" that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.

"We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well," Mr.

Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software tycoon plans to call for a "creative capitalism" that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.

"We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well," Mr. Gates will tell world leaders at the forum, according to a copy of the speech seen by The Wall Street Journal.