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Bernie Sanders: America's 1% Aren't Patriots (Original Post)
snagglepuss
May 2016
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why does he keep voting to give them $$ billions and billions more MIC welfare then? nt
msongs
May 2016
#2
You'd rather we left them out there to be killed with no gear? Rather disgusting view.
floriduck
May 2016
#3
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msongs
(67,420 posts)2. why does he keep voting to give them $$ billions and billions more MIC welfare then? nt
floriduck
(2,262 posts)3. You'd rather we left them out there to be killed with no gear? Rather disgusting view.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)4. Insulting people like bill gates and the money they support charities...and
Keeps reinforcing sanders as a tired old angry socialist who wants to wage class warfare..WAY TO BRING AMERICA TOGETHER....btw gates has given billions to charities...how much as Bernie and Jane given??!
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)5. The Gates is undemocratic and their giving comes with strings attached
In 2008 the WHOs malaria chief, Dr. Arata Kochi, complained about the conflicts of interest created by the foundation. In an internal memo leaked to the New York Times he complained that the worlds top malaria researchers were locked up in a cartel with their own research funding being linked to those of others within the group. In other words, the standards of independent peer reviewed research were cast aside in order to please the funder.
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Private philanthropy is inherently undemocratic. It is a top down driven process in which the wealthy individual tells the recipient what they will and will not do. This is a problematic system for charities of all kinds and is disastrous where the health of worlds people is concerned. Health care should be a human right, not a charity, and the worlds governments should determine how funds to protect that right are spent. One critic put it very pointedly. the Gates Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates, do not believe in the public sector, they do not believe in a democratic, publically owned, publically accountable system.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged an additional $50 million to fight the current Ebola epidemic but that too is problematic, as Director General Chan describes. When theres an event, we have money. Then after that, the money stops coming in, then all the staff you recruited to do the response, you have to terminate their contracts. The WHO should not be lurching from crisis to crisis, SARS, MERS, or H1N1 influenza based on the whims of philanthropy. The principles of public health should be carried out by knowledgeable medical professionals who are not dependent upon rich people for their jobs.
The Gates are not alone in using their deep pockets to confound what should be publicly held responsibilities. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that he was contributing $25 million to fight Ebola. His donation will go to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation. Most Americans are probably unaware that such a foundation even exists. Yet there it is, run by a mostly corporate board which will inevitably interfere with the public good. The WHO and its inability to coordinate the fight against Ebola tells us that public health is just that, public. If the CDC response to Ebola in the United States fails it may be because it falls prey to the false siren song of giving private interests control of the peoples resources and responsibilities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/privatized-ebola-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-is-the-world-health-organizations-boss-not-governments/5408056
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Private philanthropy is inherently undemocratic. It is a top down driven process in which the wealthy individual tells the recipient what they will and will not do. This is a problematic system for charities of all kinds and is disastrous where the health of worlds people is concerned. Health care should be a human right, not a charity, and the worlds governments should determine how funds to protect that right are spent. One critic put it very pointedly. the Gates Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates, do not believe in the public sector, they do not believe in a democratic, publically owned, publically accountable system.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged an additional $50 million to fight the current Ebola epidemic but that too is problematic, as Director General Chan describes. When theres an event, we have money. Then after that, the money stops coming in, then all the staff you recruited to do the response, you have to terminate their contracts. The WHO should not be lurching from crisis to crisis, SARS, MERS, or H1N1 influenza based on the whims of philanthropy. The principles of public health should be carried out by knowledgeable medical professionals who are not dependent upon rich people for their jobs.
The Gates are not alone in using their deep pockets to confound what should be publicly held responsibilities. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that he was contributing $25 million to fight Ebola. His donation will go to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation. Most Americans are probably unaware that such a foundation even exists. Yet there it is, run by a mostly corporate board which will inevitably interfere with the public good. The WHO and its inability to coordinate the fight against Ebola tells us that public health is just that, public. If the CDC response to Ebola in the United States fails it may be because it falls prey to the false siren song of giving private interests control of the peoples resources and responsibilities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/privatized-ebola-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-is-the-world-health-organizations-boss-not-governments/5408056
840high
(17,196 posts)6. Interesting - thanks.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)9. Ahahaha
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)7. Chair Tossers are not patriots either.........
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)8. Neither are shoe-elves from Atlantis.