I stand by my reasoning. Almost everyone is desiring of wealth in some way, and why shouldn't they be? Wealth lets you live your life how you want, without many cares about bills or being able to survive. My point was it is a stupid definition for "greedy" when it applies to most of the population, and it is even more stupid to point at someone who is "greedy" and act like they are the anomaly.
Yeah, it may be a hell of a lot easier for Romney to give away 15% of his total income, but that wasn't the point. The point is, he did give away that amount. As I said before, we don't know how much of Romney's money is re-invested, how much of it goes towards creating new jobs for people, etc. At the end of the day, it isn't how much your income is, it's what you do with it that counts. Look at Bill Gates; I doubt many of us would argue he is greedy, when he's pledged to give 99% of his fortune to charity. I did the calculation; that leaves Gates with $590,000,000 left over...far more than Romney will probably make in his entire life. If we're going to throw the greedy card around, why not stick it on Gates as well? By your logic, he's still greedy, despite all his donations to charity.
Yeah, it may be a hell of a lot easier for Romney to give away 15% of his total income, but that wasn't the point. The point is, he did give away that amount. As I said before, we don't know how much of Romney's money is re-invested, how much of it goes towards creating new jobs for people, etc. At the end of the day, it isn't how much your income is, it's what you do with it that counts. Look at Bill Gates; I doubt many of us would argue he is greedy, when he's pledged to give 99% of his fortune to charity. I did the calculation; that leaves Gates with $590,000,000 left over...far more than Romney will probably make in his entire life. If we're going to throw the greedy card around, why not stick it on Gates as well? By your logic, he's still greedy, despite all his donations to charity.
