Do cons know Soros is a philanthropist fighting to bring openess to totalitarian societies?

• By Cali Shaye
• Legalize Marijuana
• 14 years ago
• 12

I have never heard of Soros before the right wing wackos started with their conspiracy theories so I decided to see what he had really done….. What is so wrong with the following?

Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects – $100 million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa — while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $7 billion.

In September 2006 Soros pledged $50 million to the Millennium Promise, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs to provide educational, agricultural, and medical aid to help villages in Africa enduring poverty. The New York Times termed this endeavor a “departure” for Soros whose philanthropic focus had been on fostering democracy and good government, but Soros noted that most poverty resulted from bad governance.

In 2010, he donated $1 million in support of Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana in the state of California.

Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.