Elon has a Giant Charity

[VGuerra276]

Last edited Sun Mar 10, 2024, 03:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NYT

Among the donations the Musk Foundation has made, there was $55 million to help a major SpaceX customer meet a charitable pledge. There were the millions that went to Cameron County, Texas, after the rocket blew up. And there were donations to two schools closely tied to his businesses: one walled off inside a SpaceX compound, the other located next to a new subdivision for Musk’s employees.

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A better title is: "The Many Bribes of Elon"

The charitable donations that Musk has made are not for charity, but to ultimately benefit him and his Space X project. Afterall, he needs to justify the complete annihilation of one of the most pristine beaches on the Texas coast. Now we know why Cameron County and all the local schools kiss his boots.

[RussBLib]

1. It's really sad, to me

....how local officials here in deep S TX are willing to give up anything for a little cash from Musk. Musk just worked a "land swap" where Texas Parks & Wildlife gave up a lot more protected lands adjacent to SpaceX at Boca Chica in exchange for lands that Musk had bought several miles from SpaceX. It appears that Musk has gone on a buying spree for available land here in Cameron County, and about all of it inside different LLCs that do not appear to be run by Musk, but are. Frankly, I'm totally willing to sell him my house on S Padre Island, before his rocket launches destroy it. We are ready to get the hell off of this island.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. Time to leave the Gulf Coast IMHO

I have lived in Texas my whole life, mostly in Houston. Climate change has made it unbearable. Between the summer heat & humidity 45 days over 100 last summer!) the ground level ozone, rising sea levels, the major floods and hurricanes that are worse and more often - I'm done. And then there's the politics. I'm packing my shit and headed to New Mexico Thursday.

[RussBLib]

3. the wife and I have seriously considered New Mexico

...all of her family is here in the RGV, so she doesn't really want to leave (especially now with a 2-year-old grand nephew) but I think Elon Musk might have been the last straw for her. Our house shakes like a leaf during his 33-engine launches, and another launch is planned for Thursday. We doubt the house will survive at the pace Musk is planning to launch. We lived in Houston about 40 years, and in addition to everything you mentioned, the congestion is so out of hand, and the roads and highways are not keeping up. And of course getting rail is next to impossible in Texas, except for that tinker-toy light-rail that serves almost no one. We built a house in Midtown in 2008 and they just added 3 25-story residential towers a block away from where we built. We used to have a great view of downtown from our rooftop deck, but 4-story condos built right across the street put an end to that. It's just too much.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. You can fly Southwest from Albuquerque

to Harlingen for $250 roundtrip if you book in advance. Corpus Christi is a bit more.

[Wonder Why]

5. e lived in New Mexico for 22 years. Had the company not transferred me to Atlanta, we'd still

be there. The kids became adults while we were in Atlanta so they stayed in the East and so did we and that's where the grandkids are.

Those 22 years were wonderful. We became part of the community when I worked in El Paso (but refused to become a Texan even though it would have meant no state income tax). I had my standards, ethics and morals and, even then, Texas did not live up to them.

We go back regularly to visit. It's so different. You either love it or hate it. We love it.

[Drum]

4. Oops, I misread that as "has a giant cavity"

[mercuryblues]

7. I owe my soul to the company store