23 Mar 2020, 9:41 am
I guess it's a great idea. Most poor ones will buy something nearly immediately. Because of this it pushes the business that is currently down. And it buys him lots of votes. In the end most of the money will return in form of taxes.
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23 Mar 2020, 4:46 pm
auntblabby wrote:
figures that they'd leave out precisely the people who need it the most [lower part of the working class]. big business should not get a GD dime, esp. when they've been quietly buying back their own stock for years now.
Agreed.
Wolfram87 wrote:
If money was all it took to get votes, why isn't Bloomberg still around?
Half a trillion simply wasn't enough.
His mistake was not thinking BIG enough.
He has massive, I mean MASSIVE, wealth.
Why doesn't he share it with the poor if he is a Democrat?
Are there bad Democrats too???
auntblabby wrote:
instead of spending a billion bucks on a vanity run, too bad bloomberg couldn't have put that money to more productive use.
Firstly, it wasn't a "billion",
It was half a "TRILLION"!
Look on the bright side,
Most of the money went to advertising agencies,
And they *really* need the money,
More than the homeless.
23 Mar 2020, 4:55 pm
auntblabby wrote:
figures that they'd leave out precisely the people who need it the most [lower part of the working class]. big business should not get a GD dime, esp. when they've been quietly buying back their own stock for years now.
Agreed.
Wolfram87 wrote:
If money was all it took to get votes, why isn't Bloomberg still around?
Half a trillion simply wasn't enough.
His mistake was not thinking BIG enough.
He has massive, I mean MASSIVE, wealth.
Why doesn't he share it with the poor if he is a Democrat?
Are there bad Democrats too???
auntblabby wrote:
instead of spending a billion bucks on a vanity run, too bad bloomberg couldn't have put that money to more productive use.
Firstly, it wasn't a "billion",
It was half a "TRILLION"!
Look on the bright side,
Most of the money went to advertising agencies,
And they *really* need the money,
More than the homeless.
TheRobotLives wrote:
When times are good, companies make record profits.
When times are bad, companies need bailouts.
When times are bad, companies need bailouts.
Grrrr!
I *hate* big business.
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23 Mar 2020, 8:21 pm
Pepe wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
figures that they'd leave out precisely the people who need it the most [lower part of the working class]. big business should not get a GD dime, esp. when they've been quietly buying back their own stock for years now.
Agreed.
Wolfram87 wrote:
If money was all it took to get votes, why isn't Bloomberg still around?
Half a trillion simply wasn't enough.
His mistake was not thinking BIG enough.
He has massive, I mean MASSIVE, wealth.
Why doesn't he share it with the poor if he is a Democrat?
Are there bad Democrats too???
auntblabby wrote:
instead of spending a billion bucks on a vanity run, too bad bloomberg couldn't have put that money to more productive use.
Firstly, it wasn't a "billion",
It was half a "TRILLION"!
Look on the bright side,
Most of the money went to advertising agencies,
And they *really* need the money,
More than the homeless.
TheRobotLives wrote:
When times are good, companies make record profits.
When times are bad, companies need bailouts.
When times are bad, companies need bailouts.
Grrrr!
I *hate* big business.
Of course there are bad Democrats.
Bloomberg is a nefarious businessman and billionaire long before he's a Democrat.
A major reason why he didn't catch on wasn't due to not spending enough money, but due to his lack of attracting a large African American constituency after his racially insensitive policies and remarks from when he was Mayor of New York.
24 Mar 2020, 3:02 am
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24 Mar 2020, 5:13 am
Quote:
"Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST," writer Mekita Rivas tweeted on Super Tuesday. (Rivas has since made her Twitter account private.) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/cl ... on-dollars
Bloomberg is worth at least $327,000,000,000,000, according to MSNBC.
Now *that* is massive!
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24 Mar 2020, 9:09 am
Pepe wrote:
Quote:
"Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The US population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST," writer Mekita Rivas tweeted on Super Tuesday. (Rivas has since made her Twitter account private.) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/cl ... on-dollars
Bloomberg is worth at least $327,000,000,000,000, according to MSNBC.
Now *that* is massive!
Mekita Rivas is not MSNBC. She was a guest on one of their shows.
