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Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:37 PM Aug 2020

USPS needs 25 billion for voting and staying open? Bezos personally makes this in 3 days

Can someone ask him to help save the nation, maybe the WORLD with what is actually pocket change to him, please?

And is there a way he can give it to them and not have the GOP fascist killers stop him?

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USPS needs 25 billion for voting and staying open? Bezos personally makes this in 3 days (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Aug 2020 OP
Bloomberg can dig in the sofa cushions a little too. He wanted to help remove trump. NightWatcher Aug 2020 #1
Even if someone did donate SheltieLover Aug 2020 #2
GOP would have to join with DNC to remove the guy, physically Eliot Rosewater Aug 2020 #4
Personally SheltieLover Aug 2020 #6
Have been thinking the same thing question everything Aug 2020 #3
Give 25 billion to who? stillcool Aug 2020 #5
I don't think that's how it works blogslut Aug 2020 #7
Jeff Bezos makes $3 trillion a year? Wow!  ( n/t ) Make7 Aug 2020 #8
No. Dr. Strange Aug 2020 #10
25 billion ÷ 3 days = 8.3 billion per day | 8.3 x 365 days = 3,030 billion Make7 Aug 2020 #11
Right. Dr. Strange Aug 2020 #12
Begging from the billionaires. Looks like. this is our future delisen Aug 2020 #9

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. Even if someone did donate
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:39 PM
Aug 2020

Chump & his stooge, DeJoy, are intent upon holding up votes, so they would just pocket the money, just like the 1st stimulus bill!

question everything

(47,430 posts)
3. Have been thinking the same thing
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:40 PM
Aug 2020

Forgot about Bezos, but of Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, George Soros..

Just to keep it floating through January 2021..

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
5. Give 25 billion to who?
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 08:44 PM
Aug 2020

He could probably get ballots from Point A, to Point B, with his own trucks and employees. I read something about Gen. Honore, from Katrina fame, saying the National Guard could do the mail.

blogslut

(37,982 posts)
7. I don't think that's how it works
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 09:02 PM
Aug 2020

It was bankers who bailed out America in 1893 & 1907. Bezos isn't that kind of billionaire. He could buy a ridiculous amount of government bonds but he can't pick and choose who gets the money.

Make7

(8,543 posts)
11. 25 billion ÷ 3 days = 8.3 billion per day | 8.3 x 365 days = 3,030 billion
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 09:55 PM
Aug 2020
USPS needs 25 billion for voting and staying open? Bezos personally makes this in 3 days

OP

Dr. Strange

(25,915 posts)
12. Right.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:49 PM
Aug 2020

Bezos doesn't make 25 billion in three days. This source claims that he makes $275 million per day, but a lot of that is in stocks, which could tank at any time, so I wouldn't put much faith in it.

delisen

(6,042 posts)
9. Begging from the billionaires. Looks like. this is our future
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 09:16 PM
Aug 2020

Unless we can get a handle on whose economy it is..

Doesn't it seem odd that we can' seem to figure out how to build an economy that serves all of us?

...or that we cannot even figure out how to have a genuine conversation about it?


An economy is a tool to serve a society of people.
Our economy does not serve tour society; our society is serving an economy.

The tail is waging the dog.

I know how we got here and what has to happen to set things right -but it cannot be done unless we. move past what is wrong and. envision our future.

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