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sheshe2

(88,808 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 11:42 PM Mar 2020

Bernie Sanders wants to get rid of billionaires. All of them. [View all]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/bernie-sanders-ultra-wealth-tax-billionaires/index.html

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Welp, this is a Billionaire. I am loving him. He is trying to make us all safer and he will keep my niece safer as well. She is on the front line.

This is a Billionaire.

Eric Smidt

Born
Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation
Chairman & CEO Harbor Freight Tools
Net worth
US$3.1 billion (2018)[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Smidt

Today, TODAY he announced this:

Harbor Freight is donating their ENTIRE supply of PPE to hospitals:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213151585

Dear Harbor Freight Community,

As we’ve been following the news over the last few days, we’ve heard about the severe shortage of protective gear for hospitals, healthcare workers and first responders as the impact of COVID-19 is being felt across the country. America depends on these heroes every day and in the days ahead we will depend on them even more. At Harbor Freight, we want them to know that they can depend on us too.

So we’ve decided to donate our entire supply of the personal protective equipment items listed below to front line hospitals with 24 hour emergency rooms in the communities served by our stores.

• N95 Masks
• Face Shields
• 5 and 7 mil Nitrile Gloves
If you work at a hospital with a 24 hour emergency room in need of these items, please ask the office in charge of procurement at your hospital to click here so they can provide us with the information we’ll need to determine if we can make a donation. If you’re not with a hospital, but would like to give us the name of a hospital with a 24 hour emergency room in your community that might need our help, please email us at hospitalhelp@harborfreight.com, identify the hospital’s city and state in the subject line, and our team will follow-up.


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For hospitals we’re able to help, we’ll email them a voucher when the supplies are available for pick up at their local Harbor Freight Tools store.

Although we certainly won’t have enough of these supplies to fill everyone’s needs, we’re going to donate everything we’ve got. We also recognize that there are so many other critically important people responding to this crisis and that there is need everywhere. We’ve chosen to focus our efforts on hospitals with a 24 hour emergency room with the hope that we can help as many people as possible right now.

Thank you and God Bless,

Eric Smidt
Owner and Founder
Harbor Freight Tools



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What are you doing to make us safer Senator? You are in VT and not in Washington where our Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to protect us any way they can. A billionaire is giving our front line workers protections so they can continue to save lives and not die for doing so. I applaud him.

PS...……...He started his career at the age of 17.



If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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That is wonderful. murielm99 Mar 2020 #1
I have no issues with billionaires... sheshe2 Mar 2020 #6
i just want them to pay their fair share in taxes questionseverything Mar 2020 #29
The Man Is A Tiresome Loudmouth, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #2
You are correct, Sir. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #4
Quite so! NT Happy Hoosier Mar 2020 #21
Looks lilke the Biillionaires with hearts of Gold are Cha Mar 2020 #3
I passed it on to my sister. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #5
Bernie demonizes. How else could he appear righteous? Not very original and means he can be emmaverybo Mar 2020 #7
I think some call it "othering" like creating a demon to be feared. littlemissmartypants Mar 2020 #12
Well said. He "others" a lot. Seems a tactic almost--sets himself in opposition to "the other" and emmaverybo Mar 2020 #14
one wonders how much PPE bernie is donating. is he paying salaries of laid off arena workers too? msongs Mar 2020 #8
Lol. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #9
I know who I'd like to get rid of Skittles Mar 2020 #10
I am with ya on that, Skittles. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #11
With the market dropping almost 40% in a short time BidenBacker Mar 2020 #13
K'n'R ucrdem Mar 2020 #15
ucrdem... sheshe2 Mar 2020 #27
Here's a list of billionaires and their actions re: CV TwilightZone Mar 2020 #16
Looked over your list a little BidenBacker Mar 2020 #17
Mike Bloomberg is a billionaire, last week he gave $40 million toward... George II Mar 2020 #18
Thank you George. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #24
What about the owner of the Intercept Kerrycrat Mar 2020 #19
And Bloomberg is helping defeat tangerines. BS is home pondering his next divisive action. we can do it Mar 2020 #20
Lets talk numbers quakerboy Mar 2020 #22
You don't know that. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #25
Educated guess. quakerboy Mar 2020 #32
That would put him at the top of the food chain then wouldn't it? William769 Mar 2020 #23
Billionaires aside, strong progress could be made, if traitotrump & BS would just STFU! empedocles Mar 2020 #26
Bazinga. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #28
Sanders' hatred of billionaires was always silly NCProgressive Mar 2020 #30
Hey. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #31
Well, he should start by not saving the billionaire class from liberals. Hortensis Mar 2020 #33
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