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Sure Dems, great idea, let's fund it the democratic way... put a little check box on our income tax forms for us to choose to contribute if we so please.

One of the few things that remains steadfastly inscrutible to me is how someone with the wherewithal to accumulate that sort of wealth can possibly be so stupid and shortsighted as to support a political agenda that actively seeks to destroy the very features of society and the economy that made it possible for him to do so in the first place. You would think someone who could understand the market so well would be able to understand the consequences of socialism. The only rationale I can think of is he's so jealous of his position among the wealthy elite that he can't stand the idea of any more people joining him.

Evilwrench;

In a true free-market economy, money is power. Money is infinite. Soros lusts after ABSOLUTE power, and if his monetary power can be checked by the ability of others to meet or exceed it, then his only recourse is to shift the measure of power from money to votes (which are relatively finite). Control the finite number of votes, and you have absolute power, regardless of how much money someone else has. You can make more money; you can't create votes out of nothing.

This is the thrust of Socialism, IMHO. See P. J. O'Rourke's "On the Wealth of Nations" for a pretty apt description of how feudal mercantilists shifted the base of power from land to money, thereby weakening the power of the nobility & creating freedom in the sense we think of it today... and how socailists want to reverse that trend. So called "Progressives" are actually regressives. Follow them and be a serf again!

Ahh, so I guess I was sort of finding my way to the right track, although ACORN might disagree that you can't create votes out of nothing...

Evilwrench,

I have been struggling with this but I think I have finally, after all of these years, come to the conclusion that there is no correlation between the acquisition of wealth and intelligence. If it were true many a rapper would be Einsteins.

This is already going on. I stopped giving to the Combined Federal Campaign when I was a Civil Circus drone when I found out that several of the organizations were actually Marxist and their bylaws called for the overthrow of our government! The Demoncrats have been funding many of these anti-American organizations for decades from tax money. It's a disgrace. If Barry gets elected, expect it to grow geometrically.

Sorry... I should have said you can't create *too many* votes out of nothing. The rubes might get suspicious.... in other words, wealth can be infinitely created, but votes are relatively finite.

Is that picture of the madman (can't remember his name)from the James Bond movie?

Mr Evilwrench

One of the few things that remains steadfastly inscrutible to me is how someone with the wherewithal to accumulate that sort of wealth can possibly be so stupid and shortsighted as to support a political agenda that actively seeks to destroy the very features of society and the economy that made it possible for him to do so in the first place.

Ah, but you overlook the fact that he DOES NOT intend for all those socialist things to apply to him. It's only for the 'little' people, after all, he knows what's best for 'them'.

footnote:  yes I know the picture is Soros.

Anybody else notice that the acronym for "Social Investment Fund Network" is SIFN, which phonetically sounds a lot like "siphon"? C'mon, Democrats, try to be a little more subtle...

How does one quantify "inspiring others to lead change in their own communities"?

Soros is a speculator-madman who made something like $10 billion shorting the British pound and breaking the Bank of England, causing a devaluation of Pounds Sterling - thus impoverishing and bankrupting thousands or millions of hard-working British citizens in the process. Having created nothing, and simply confiscated the wealth produced by others through clever trading, his enormous net worth is, in a way, part of what happens from time to time in a healthy capitalist system, but also a perversion of that system at its very worst. He has since used part of his legal though ill-gotten gains to attempt to overthrow governments and pursue highly partisan political agendas.

If one was to make a list of ten historical figures who really deserved to be taken out back and shot, Soros' name would definitely have to be on that list. He is a monstrous freak.

For Soros to lecture anyone about morality or distribution of wealth is twisted irony of unimaginable bizarreness.

Every time I see that hideous little troglydite grinning like a gargoyle I want to punch my monitor. Soros... the bastard love child of Antonio Gramsci.

I guess I wasn't actually aware how rotten his money was. I just knew he'd made a lot. Damn, that's worse than Bill Gates; at least you get a product (of sorts) from Gates, even if you were extorted into buying it. Try buying a PC without windows, or getting that portion of the price back from M$. It just isn't worth it. M$ has the de facto power of taxation on US PC sales.