| | Hi Roger,
Whoever said that philanthropy and charity were leftest?
Before the company went public, the owners decided to donate 1 percent of the corporate assets to what they perceived as making the world a better place. It was their money, their invention and their company. Their call. I see nothing left-wing there - like asking the government to foot the bill. They sold stock to their property to the public under the terms they set.
Very selfish as far as I can see.
Even so, I read the article and the full one percent is not going to the Google Foundation and non-profit organizations. Less than one third of that is going there. The remaining portion is going toward "profit-making businesses with socially useful goals."
That is leftest?
Sound like some very successful capitalists of the highest order are being benevolent to me. I admire these guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for their outstanding achievement.
Personally I use Google for research (and even spell checking) all the time.
Michael
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When A takes money from B to give to C, and A is a legislator, the process is called taxation. But when A is an officer or director of a corporation, it is called philanthropy.
