Crooks & Liars: Bill Gates "should stick to stealing & repackaging other people's ideas"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/bill-gates-i-dont-know-anything-about

October 30, 2011 02:00 PM
Bill Gates: I Don't Know Anything About The Tax Code, But I Know Raising Taxes On People Like Me Won't Fix It
By Susie Madrak



Like a lot of wealthy men, Bill Gates believes he has special insight into areas outside his expertise. (That's why he's one of the biggest names pushing for corporate-style education reform.) Personally, I think he should stick to stealing other people's ideas and repackaging them, since it's already worked so well for him, but what do I know? Here he is on today's This Week with Christiane Amanpour:

AMANOUR: Bill Gates is one of the world's richest men...the chairman of Microsoft. Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates philanthropic foundation. And a man now on a mission to convince some of the wealthiest nations and corporations to take care of the poor. That can be a tough sell these days, with economic crises rippling around the world. Gates traveled to Capitol Hill this week to make his case. And I spoke with him about the frustration gripping Washington and the nation.

AMANPOUR: Do you buy this notion that there's a sort of class warfare in this country right now?

GATES: No, fortunately, there hasn't been class warfare. Warfare is like where you're shooting at each other and there's...

[whistler162]

1. Ms. Madrak the liar of crooks and liars!

"GATES: I'm not an expert on how we should do taxes. Clearly, you can't raise the taxes we need just by going after that 1 percent. Yes, I'm generally in favor of the idea that - that the rich should pay somewhat more. But to really deal with the deficit gap we're talking about, that alone just numerically is not going to be enough"

Unless she thinks just raising taxes will fix all the problems!

[banned from Kos]

4. thanks for pointing that out as I was puzzled by the C&L misdirection

Gates is correct, of course. His taxes should be higher and tax hikes alone will not completely close the deficit.

[hobbit709]

2. Hey Gates, there's a line in a Fleetwood Mac song that applies.

"Don't ask me what I think of you. I might not give the answer that you want me to.

[pacalo]

3. She didn't mean "warfare" in the literal sense. Or maybe the term "class warfare" being used so

frequently & the evergrowing, widespread OWS protests are making him nervous & he was being defensive but coming off as clueless.

[msongs]

5. repackaging other peoples ideas? that was steve jobs' job lol nt

[valerief]

7. Yeah, but Gates stole it from Jobs. nt

[trekbiker]

8. and Jobs stole if from Xerox (mouse, gui)... nt

[Cieran_WI]

9. Incorrect. Jobs paid millions of dollars for access to Xerox

patents, and did it all legally. Bill Gates stole the Mac under the guise of needing prerelease hardware to provide a working copy of Microsoft Office for the new Mac GUI.

Yes, Jobs didn't "invent" the mouse, nor did he invent the mp3 player or telephone. But he did revolutionize each. Not to mention CGI, Retail stores, Music retail, personal computers, and soon... television. Bill Gates took 11 years to make a sellable ripoff of the 1984 Mac OS, and his glory days of intellectual theft are long behind him...

[emsimon33]

11. Gates bought QDOS--Quick and Dirty Operating System &

repackaged it as MS-DOS 1.0 to meet a commitment to IBM. That was the start of Microsoft.

[valerief]

6. Someone should tell Gates that Occupiers ARE being shot at by cops who are hired by

the 1% to protect their interests.

[jtuck004]

10. That's ironic. Coming from someone who made billions by virtue of the margin

between what he could have charged and what he did, to say charging more won't lead to a better condition for those who would benefit seems fairly disingenuous.