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cilla4progress

(24,782 posts)
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 02:38 PM Dec 2016

Et tu,

Bill Gates?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/after-talking-with-trump-bill-gates-likens-president-elect-to-jfk.html

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President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to establish "American leadership through innovation," Bill Gates told CNBC on Tuesday.

"A lot of his message has been about ... where he sees things not as good as he'd like," the billionaire Microsoft co-founder said on "Squawk Box."

"But in the same way President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that," Gates continued, "I think whether it's education or stopping epidemics ... [or] in this energy space, there can be a very upbeat message that [Trump's] administration [is] going to organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers, and have American leadership through innovation."

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wishstar

(5,272 posts)
2. Don't think deregulation is going to improve our quality of life, education or health care
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 02:46 PM
Dec 2016

for most Americans, but no question it will enrich the wealthy giving them more resources to spend on those items

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. So speaks the billionaire who is working to make the US more 1% friendly.
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 03:00 PM
Dec 2016

Ask Gates about offshoring and paying less to workers.

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