"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year." Here is an article dedicated to Bill and Melinda Gates, while an interview with all three can be found here.
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"How obvious has become that all American's care about is how many $$ are invloved. Makes me sick."
I find the post a bit amusing considering the subject line and the posted by part of the message.
Seriously, I think you pay too much attention to the U.S. media. I use the term U.S. because technically America is the whole Western Hemisphere. Anyway, in the job I recently retired from I had daily contact with many, many charitable, caring and giving people. I think you condemn the masses based on an incomplete view of what the average person here is like. For a country of people who only care about money we sure seem to be willing to donate money, food, shelter and even our time helping whenever a major disaster strikes anyplace else in the world.
But I will agree with your third sentence. That would be the true measure who deserves to be honored.
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This is pathetic. It's easy for the rich to give charity and "make a difference". But real honor belongs to those who do so against the odds.
So why did they ignore Cindy? Bunch of cowards.
How obvious has become that all American's care about is how many $$ are invloved. Makes me sick.