I'm not blindly anti rich. Here are a few rich people who I hold in very high esteem.

[Stinky The Clown]

And maybe the two greatest of them all .....








Post more portraits as you see fit ......

[treestar]

1. They wanted to give back

They are better people than the middle class wanna be rich who'd deny any social programs - ie the teabaggers and such.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Not all have been directly involved in politics...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XCB8pQf0jZQ/SN5oRKz0AMI/AAAAAAAAADU/6LTzRapd03Q/s400/paul+newman.jpg

[Stinky The Clown]

6. You could add this guy to that category

[NYC_SKP]

3. Peter Cooper

made it possible for me to attend his college for five years, tuition free.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cooper

:patriot:

[lonestarnot]

4. Very few. Thanks.

[Canuckistanian]

5. And not a single pic of Geroge Soros

Really, you're an embarrassment to radical lib'ruls everywhere....

[Stinky The Clown]

7. If you insist .....

[proteus_lives]

8. I'm glad you added Theodore Roosevelt.

I'm reading Theodore Roosevelt: Wilderness Warrior right now. It's amazing what he did for this country.

TR and FDR. It's quite a family.

[pepperbear]

9. my gallery.....

(apparently he was in massive debt when he died)





bottom line: rich, yes, but I don't see them as having been pathologically greedy.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I don't argue your choices at all, but there is, I think, a fundamental difference ........

...... between your choices and mine. My list were all, I believe, born to wealth while yours, I believe, all achieved it on their own. The implicit difference is the potential for empathy. Or not.

[PM Martin]

11. When one benefits that greatly from the system,

they cannot be respected if the keep it all for themselves then hand the trust funds over to their children, who in turn live privileged lives without any of the hard work that was needed to get that much money in the first place (I'm talking about Steve Forbes and McCain's bimbo daughter).