Politics
Monday June 26, 2006
See today's LifeSiteNews stories
Warren Buffett Gives $31 Billion to Gates Foundation
By John Jalsevac
NEW YORK, June 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The wealth of the two richest men in the world, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, has just been consolidated in a dramatic fashion.
Buffett has announced that he will be giving away over 80% of his wealth in the next number of years, $31 billion of which will be given to the Gates foundation in the form of stocks. The result, according to Forbes, is a giant charitable organization worth approximately $60 billion.
To pro-life and pro-family advocates, however, the new arrangement hardly makes things any worse—and certainly not any better—than before. Gates and Buffett are birds of a feather, having both been long time supporters of population control, giving large sums of money to groups that advocate abortion, contraception and sterilization, usually in the name of stopping AIDS or poverty.
In the past Buffett’s own charitable foundation has supported groups including Planned Parenthood of America, the Population Council, NARAL, Catholics for Choice, and numerous other similarly pro-abortion/anti-life groups. The beneficiaries of The Gates Foundation include many of the same groups, most notably Planned Parenthood, to which the Gates Foundation has donated many millions of dollars.
“Who can possibly do a better job dispersing this money?” said Buffett about the donation to the Gates Foundation. “When you accumulate wealth, it makes sense to turn the money over to an investment manager who can manage it better than you can.”
The men, who are longtime fellow bridge players, said that they have discussed giving their money away for ten years. Recently Bill Gates made headlines when he announced that he would be gradually distancing himself from his work with Microsoft to focus on his charitable work.
The goal of the Gates Foundation’s work, says Gates, “is to eradicate the 20 leading diseases in the world,” most notably AIDS.
Back to TopSHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook
Latest Headlines
- Texas Bishop Repents Publicly for Catholic Hospital Which Was Doing Sterilizations
- Poll Shows a Solid Majority of Canadians Want Legal Protection for Unborn Children
- Interview: Bishop Explains Why a Bishop "Would Consider It a Privilege to Die to End to Abortion"
- Christian-Founded Dating Website eHarmony Forced to Cater to Homosexuals
- Italian Government Must Act Fast to Define Food and Hydration as a Human Right to Save Eluana: Prominent Italian Lawyer
- Brazilian Christian Censored and Fined for Making "Homophobic" Remarks in Book
- Grandmother's Account of Traumatizing Experience with Abortion Moves Jamaican Parliamentarians to Tears
- Bush Pushes Ahead with Regulations to Protect Doctors’ Conscience Rights
- Levant Acquitted after Republishing Letter by Pastor Previously Found to Be “Hate Speech”
- The Death of Catholic Culture and the Election of Barack Obama
- Brazilian Psychologists Prohibited from Helping Catholic Church Screen Out Homosexual Priesthood Candidates
- Letters to the Editor for Friday, November 21, 2008
- US Election Message to Catholic Bishops Part III: The Broken Window Strategy
Most Read this Week
- Italian Nuns Refuse to Kill Eluana
- Lawsuits Proliferate Demanding Proof of Obama's Natural-Born Citizenship before Electoral Vote Count
- Charleston Priest Tells Obama-Supporting Catholics to Confess before Receiving Communion Again
- Christian Prayer Group Sexually and Physically Assaulted by Homosexual Mob
- Mormons, Knights of Columbus Face Chilling Threats and More Vandalism for Prop. 8 Support
- The Coming "War" Between the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church
- Vatican Cardinal: "A New World Order is Gaining Ground"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's Wife: I'm "a Catholic in Good Standing" But Also Pro-abortion and Pro-Homosexual
- Update: Nationwide Homosexual Anarchist Organization Behind Attack on MI Church Planning Further Disruptions
- Martin Luther King's Niece: Obama Election Heals "White Guilt" at the Cost of Life and Family
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.