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This effort should be commended. However, I'm wondering, where are all the billionaires and corporations when the world needs them? I'm not even asking this flippantly. Seriously, how come they're not doing anything? Just for the past few months Bloomberg spent half a billion essentially to achieve nothing.

Couldn't he repeat the feat and build a few hospitals to help out his home state? Or his country? How about everyone else?



I believe he could repeat that feat 120 times and still be a billionaire.


Indeed. Maybe we should demand it of him and of others in his position.

Regular people are placed under a tremendous burden all over the world and they are expected to cooperate and to sacrifice.

The very least the rich could do is shoulder part of the financial burden.


* 1 billion...




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