The way John makes wise oversight of his investment towards the orphanage and school shows a return on the dollar far beyond what we often see in Federal guv'mint foreign aid. I'd wager that John's money goes as far as 3-4 times what USA foreign aid would.
However, also purely anecdotally, no representative of the taxpayers in general ever asked John to "invest" like that overseas. You see, like Bill Gates and many religious "non-profits", John pays way way less in taxes as a result of his "charitable" foreign gifts. Perhaps John has even set up a foundation where other rich bastards can shelter their profits tax free with absolutely no risk of the people's representatives ever being able to do anything better with all that money, and ensuring that his progeny never have to work any real job like he did. Because, you know, that was all just so ******* tragic, exceptional, and hard. Plus, those kids obviously deserve nothing but pink unicorns and marshmallow cushiness.
BOLLOCKS!
And a pile of bovine droppings as well!
Obviously you are another of those Leftists since you think guv'mint could spend the same amount of dollar$ as wisely and effectively as a private citizen does when it's their money going directly ~ without another guv'mint employee or three to skim off the top for their useless efforts. You also appear to fail to grasp how most of those "people's representatives" usually skim off for their own gain and fail to "do anything better with all that money."
If fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you barely earned enough in your lifetime to support your self, let alone produce extra to share with others. For that matter, I doubt you did much productive in the private sector where wealth is created and wouldn't be surprised if most of what you got was via wealth redistribution.
Leftists usually have a better idea, so long as it's other people's money, labor, effort, and risk involved. I'd wager that like most Leftist, you give little or more likely nothing to any charity or non-profit.
You also display some other levels of gross ignorance. Charitable "gifts" only reduce your taxable income amount, which in John's case would be that portion of his business profits going to him as compensation, etc. In John's case he can direct where it goes and how efficiently it is used, something most of us can't do with our tax dollar$.
Also, John got to where he is by taking risk, there was no guarantee his business would succeed or continue to do so. He's also provided real jobs to his employees. And his children work and provide for themselves, they aren't living off of dad's money.
A final note here, those with wealth don't put that money in a coffee can and bury it in the back yard. They often invest into other businesses and ventures that will grow their wealth and provide for the general economic prosperity. They usually have acquired their well through a combination of working hard, long hours, often more like 60-80 hours a week, they were lucky to some degree, worked smart, and took risks that many others won't. John could as easily loose it all, in fact has come close a couple of times due to flux in the housing markets and economic downturns.
It's fairly clear you know squat about economics, wealth creation versus wealth taking,hard and smart work, risk taking, or doing more for others than for yourself.
