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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:06 PM Jun 2012

I read about some filthy rich white guy wanting to spend $100mil to defeat Obama and I wonder...

what if that person spent the $100million to help feed the hungry here in the USA?

Or spent $100mil to help improve our public schools?

Or use that $100mil to provide scholarships for needy children?

Or used that $100mil to provide health clinics for those who cannot afford healthcare.

I saw on the homepage of DU about some guy wanting to spend $100,000,000 to defeat Obama. Can't remember his name and honestly, that's how history will remember him - a nameless person who felt he'd rather spend it on an election then actually using it to help others.

Matthew 25:45 says And he will answer, 'I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'


A person who would rather spend $100,000,000 on defeating one person in an election than to help hundreds of thousands of people in this country - well their name will never be remembered after they pass away. All that wealth wasted when it could have been used to do good in this country. If there is a hell surely this person will spend eternity there.
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I read about some filthy rich white guy wanting to spend $100mil to defeat Obama and I wonder... (Original Post) LynneSin Jun 2012 OP
It's disgusting isn't it? Especially from those who claim we don't need mzmolly Jun 2012 #1
He'd rather spend $100 million to send out troops to exterminate the poor. Zalatix Jun 2012 #2
More importantly, if there were no poor, he'd actually have to earn that money himself. TalkingDog Jun 2012 #7
The filthy white rich man's name is Sheldon Adelson Woody Woodpecker Jun 2012 #3
Who? LynneSin Jun 2012 #5
Vampires can achieve happiness by sucking other people's blood. Zalatix Jun 2012 #10
"By their fruit" annabanana Jun 2012 #4
He does it because he (and more importantly his "friends") stand to make a lot more money with him TalkingDog Jun 2012 #6
And how will that make their lives any better? LynneSin Jun 2012 #8
And then-and then I'm the winner! TalkingDog Jun 2012 #9
The same douchebag that thought Newt Gingrich would be a great president. madinmaryland Jun 2012 #11
As a Jewish man, Sheldon Adelson may not be very familiar with Matthew 25:45 Freddie Stubbs Jun 2012 #12
He considers it an investment siligut Jun 2012 #13
I just wonder ThomThom Jun 2012 #14
Hence the term "filthy" rich---nc randr Jun 2012 #15
How would you feel about a $100,000,000 donation TO the Obama Campaign? NT Llewlladdwr Jun 2012 #16
and each candidate will spend nearly a billion dollars battling each other, so what's the fucking piratefish08 Jun 2012 #17
Adelson is not fit to lick Benjamin Siegel or Meyer Lansky's crocodile shoes Tom Ripley Jun 2012 #18
The millionaires and billionaires in this country are fucking disgusting greedy slimebags. Initech Jun 2012 #19

mzmolly

(51,003 posts)
1. It's disgusting isn't it? Especially from those who claim we don't need
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:07 PM
Jun 2012

a compassionate government because "charity" will pick up the slack.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
2. He'd rather spend $100 million to send out troops to exterminate the poor.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:07 PM
Jun 2012

But he can't, because it would be illegal to do so.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
5. Who?
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:10 PM
Jun 2012

He's just a creepy old white man who will never know true happiness because he thinks it's all about the money.

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
6. He does it because he (and more importantly his "friends") stand to make a lot more money with him
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:10 PM
Jun 2012

in the WH.

Hell is much more of an abstraction to them than money.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
8. And how will that make their lives any better?
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 03:13 PM
Jun 2012

That's what is really sad.

Then I'll remind folks of Matthew 19:24 - I'll say it again--it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!"

piratefish08

(3,133 posts)
17. and each candidate will spend nearly a billion dollars battling each other, so what's the fucking
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 04:17 PM
Jun 2012

difference?

we need campaign reform.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
18. Adelson is not fit to lick Benjamin Siegel or Meyer Lansky's crocodile shoes
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 04:21 PM
Jun 2012

Both of them would have considered him to be a fucking vulgarian

Initech

(100,096 posts)
19. The millionaires and billionaires in this country are fucking disgusting greedy slimebags.
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 04:33 PM
Jun 2012

And to prove it - they're now able to spend obscene amounts of money (fuck you Citizens United ) in an effort to kick out the one guy who's actually trying to help us in favor of a soulless empty vulture capitalist who has no regard for us. In the last decade the uber rich have continually abused their privilege and they pay no taxes. It's time to end the free ride and their reign of terror if you ask me.

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