George Soros

[mostpost]

I keep seeing references here to George Soros. Apparently our conservative friends see Soros as supporting Democratic candidates and progressive causes, and by extension socialism and by further extension communism.
Somehow they see this billionaire capitalist as a socialist.
From wikipedia:

Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from Communism to Capitalism in Hungary (1984–89)

Also from wikipedia:

According to Neil Clark in the New Statesman, Soros's role was crucial in the collapse of communism in eastern Europe. Clark states that from 1979, Soros distributed $3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union; in 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media.[37

So the man that conservatives call a socialist, was instrumental in the dissolution of several socialist systems.
More from wikipedia:

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros' funding has continued to play an important role in the former Soviet sphere. His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered crucial to its success by Russian and Western observers, although Soros has said that his role has been "greatly exaggerated."[38] Alexander Lomaia, Secretary of the Georgian Security Council and former Minister of Education and Science, is a former Executive Director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation), overseeing a staff of 50 and a budget of $2,500,000.[39]

Former Georgian Foreign Minister Salomé Zourabichvili wrote that institutions like the Soros Foundation were the cradle of democratisation and that all the NGOs which gravitated around the Soros Foundation undeniably carried the revolution. She opines that after the revolution the Soros Foundation and the NGOs were integrated into power.[40]

Soros understands as no consevatives do that the free Market philosophy is destructive to business as it is to workers.

In an interview regarding the late-2000s recession, Soros referred to it as the most serious crisis since the 1930s. According to Soros, market fundamentalism with its assumption that markets will correct themselves with no need for government intervention in financial affairs has been "some kind of an ideological excess". In Soros' view, the markets' moods — a "mood" of the markets being a prevailing bias or optimism/pessimism with which the markets look at reality — "actually can reinforce themselves so that there are these initially self-reinforcing but eventually unsustainable and self-defeating boom/bust sequences or bubbles".[55]

[JustRalph]

you gotta be kidding right...............?

[Tom]

I am not sure what is more disturbing....that Soros is allowed to live here and infect this country or that someone actually buys his crap?

[rastajenk]

I doubt it.

[mostpost]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

you gotta be kidding right...............?

provide me with enlightenment.

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by mostpost

provide me with enlightenment.

Mosty, I won't be drawn in...... we don't need to have this argument here. Soros has given tons of money to people like ACORN and others........ look it up. There are tons of articles online about Soros. You started this thread just for sport.........

[lamboguy]

Originally Posted by Tom

I am not sure what is more disturbing....that Soros is allowed to live here and infect this country or that someone actually buys his crap?

i think that you will find that he is quite a powerful man, maybe very dangerous. the man is as sharp as it gets having created his wealth by burrying the british pound about 30 years ago. he is as liberal as it gets when it comes down to social and political causes as it gets. and he is as conservetive in economic and any issue that involves his own personal life.

to sum the man up, he talks, walks and sqwaks from both sides of his mouth. and never to be trusted for anything that he mutters. he has a very selfish agenda. yet the man is well respected all over the world. he is DANGEROUS

[toetoe]

You have my admiration for taking a stand, Mostpost.



According to my source, Soros, a self-loathing Hungarian Jew, was inspired to change his name to its present palindromic form by his father's major contribution to world peace --- Esperanto. ( .) You know --- one world language, all humans living in a warm and fuzzy Star Trek wet dream. .

[Steve 'StatMan']

Originally Posted by lamboguy,bolding mine

i think that you will find that he is quite a powerful man, maybe very dangerous. the man is as sharp as it gets having created his wealth by burrying the british pound about 30 years ago. he is as liberal as it gets when it comes down to social and political causes as it gets. and he is as conservetive in economic and any issue that involves his own personal life.

to sum the man up, he talks, walks and sqwaks from both sides of his mouth. and never to be trusted for anything that he mutters. he has a very selfish agenda. yet the man is well respected all over the world. he is DANGEROUS

I wonder if he'strying to Super-Size his extreme wealth by burrying the U.S. Dollar.

If that happened, that'd be the ultimate wealth redistribution - wealthy or poor before in U.S. dollars, then everyone essentiall broke, holding worthless currency & certain investments.

[TJDave]

Originally Posted by toetoe

According to my source, Soros, a self-loathing Hungarian Jew, was inspired to change his name to its present palindromic form by his father's major contribution to world peace --- Esperanto.

He hates himself for being Jewish?

It's my understanding his father changed the family name to escape anti-semitism. But I could be wrong...

Please, name your source.

[bigmack]

When Hitler’s henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary , to oversee the murder of that country’s Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on his rounds. Soros has repeatedly called 1944 “the best year of his life.”

“70% of Mr. Soros’s fellow Jews in Hungary , nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect.”

During an interview with Sixty Minutes’ Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his “best year”:

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors.
SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
SOROS: Not, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-.../2564647/posts

[cj's dad]

[QUOTE=lamboguy]i think that you will find that he is quite a powerful man, maybe very dangerous. the man is as sharp as it gets having created his wealth by burrying the british pound about 30 years ago. he is as liberal as it gets when it comes down to social and political causes as it gets. and he is as conservetive in economic and any issue that involves his own personal life.

to sum the man up, he talks, walks and sqwaks from both sides of his mouth. and never to be trusted for anything that he mutters. he has a very selfish agenda. yet the man is well respected all over the world. he is DANGEROUS[/QUOTE]


Overall - your best post ever - And yes he is extremely dangerous !!

[rastajenk]

The ultimate limousine (or fleet of limousines) liberal; enjoying the fruits of the labors of many while supporting policies that keep up down while claiming they are good for our common goal, whatever that is. No, he's not a socialist, he jut wants everyone else to be one so that he can continue to live the highest of the high life.

[Figman]

George Soros owns the Dinosaur Barbeque restaurant chain. They are about to open in Troy,N.Y. on the Hudson River. I won't be a customer!!!!!
http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopp...iker-barbecue/

[BlueShoe]

Some consider Soros the most dangerous man alive. The best label for him might be Globalist. He is one of the leaders of the international cabal that seeks to eliminate national sovereignty and impose a one world govenment, the so called "New World Order". One hopeful thing is that he is quite elderly, at 80, he likely will not live to see his evil visions come to pass.