Firedoglake: Aunt Toby Writes a Letter to Warren [Buffet] and Bill [Gates]

TobyWollin at Firedoglake …

Out here in Great Recession-land, we read with great interest of your success with getting all of your lovely friends (all the ‘right’ people, I’m sure) to contribute to your little charity plan… I do have to say, though, that I am more than a little bit disappointed with you both in terms of the direction of this. Considering how you got the money, it does seem a little bit ungracious. Now don’t misunderstand me (deep breathing, Warren; it really does help): Both of you have worked hard for the money (don’t you love that song; I just can’t stop dancing when I hear it). And so did all of the lovely little munchkins who worked for your companies, too. I’m sure they feel a certain amount of ambivalence about this, considering how many of them you boys have let go, outsourced, and downsized out of house and home so that you could transfer those thousands of jobs to India and China

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