Comments on: Forbes 400 Richest Americans

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:04:41 +0000

@bamboo
agreed – thanks!!

By: bamboo

bamboo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:28:16 +0000

I have always been pleased with these two billionaires for giving away so much dough to charities. I look forward to the kingdom getting a little slice of that pie.
Your site is excellent. Keep on preaching this stuff so you can give a few billion away to the kingdom one day.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:05:27 +0000

@Snappyfrog

you are right – after all, “many hands make light work”

@Jason Dean

You bring up an interesting point -

By: Jason Dean

Jason Dean — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:59:53 +0000

Warren Buffett gave very little (relatively speaking, of course) to charity until his recent huge gift to the Gates Foundation. His rationale was that he could grow his money more effectively if he held on to it, thus making for a larger (eventual) gift. He was right. So in a way, it could be argued that Bill Gates is making a mistake by giving so much to charity at this stage in his life. Perhaps his wealth could be better served creating more jobs and more wealth through investment, compounding his massive wealth, for an eventual mammoth gift at an older age, like Buffett.

By: snappyfrog

snappyfrog — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:32:19 +0000

Good to see they give so much, but for the billions of other people not on the list: Think what the other 5-6 billion people on this world could do if we could all give $100.00US in the same week.

The world would be so flush with contributions that all charities would be scrambling to find people to help.

We can make a greater contribution to the world than both of these guys together!

snappyfrog