They spent $500 million dollars
just on their headquarters that makes a statement just on the building. Inside
they are literally trying to save the world. Do you think they can spend some time saving
America? They are solely responsible for changing the poorest lives globally
for the better. According to the United Nations since 1990, global poverty has
been cut in half. 222 million children’s lives have been saved through
education, better nutrition and disease prevention. The only thing corporate
America has done globally is give poverty ridden areas Coca-Cola machines and
fast food restaurants that is simply adding to more unhealthy people.
They have made impressive
progress in bringing down the number of deaths under the age of five globally
through vaccines and malaria prevention. Bill as a computer scientist likes
data and Melinda with her business master’s degree likes data too. It is the data and research that tells them
where to go. They have determined that 1 million babies die on the first day of
life. They are currently working on that problem now. At least they are worrying
what to do with all these children after they are born. American politicians
seem to be focused on only ending abortions for women and not on the care of
the born child. Last year there were only 37 cases of Polio. It is the lowest
number of cases we have ever had on the planet thanks to the efforts of these
too remarkable people.
Their goal is to drive the number
of Polio cases to zero. In 1995 Microsoft released Window’s 95. He was 39 years old at the time and Bill Gates became the richest man in the world.
These two could be living like a king and queen surrounded in gold palaces like
Putin and Trump but instead they pool their resources to save people, the
environment and make the quality of life better for all. In America the
foundation has a more modest agenda. They are focusing here on improving
schools and they find that it is more of a problem than even feeding and making
the world healthier. Wow!
The major wall to climb is to get
around the politics of education and government funding in this country. There
are too many fingers in the pot with too many opinions on what is the best
recipe to fix schools in America. Who would guess that the spider web of nonsense
in America was more challenging than making the rest of the globe a better
place? They and their three children evolved as a family in their 66 thousand
square foot mansion overlooking Lake Washington in Seattle. Yet Melinda and
Bill have traveled the world in an effort to make faraway places a better
place. They didn’t have to be so generous.
Melinda has taken on the cause in
the past 5 years to address that there are 225 million women asking for contraception.
No one is still asking to sterilize men or to curtail their appetite for sex
yet she has been reprimanded by the Vatican and the Pope which is an all male
dominated religion. Melinda went to Catholic schools and is catholic but feels
that we need to help women in their constant struggle to have and raise
children. They can only be compared to Carnegie in their efforts to share. Yes,
sharing is caring.
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