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To: broadstbull who wrote (297552)	11/11/2004 6:17:08 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Hope you're relatively young, man ... it might take a while. <g/ng> Speaking of respected people, I was just reminded of Andrew Carnegie ... "In 1889 he wrote The Gospel of Wealth, in which he asserted that all personal wealth beyond that required to supply the needs of one's family should be regarded as a trust fund to be administered for the benefit of the community". "Many persons of wealth have contributed to charity, but Carnegie was perhaps the first to state publicly that the rich have a moral obligation to give away their fortunes". So 11 years later ... "At age sixty-five, he sold the company to J. P. Morgan for $480 million". (that'd be about 48 billion clownbucks!) carnegie.org It's interesting that money-grubbers like Cheney & co. hate inheritance taxes and likely think him insane, while people that could buy and sell 'em a hundred times over like Buffett and Gates seem to find him worth emulating. Got eye of a needle?