Lets have some fun with math. First... lets agree that celebrities are grossly overpaid. Lets take a look at what the top earners of 2013 made: Madonna - 125 million Steven Speilberg - 100 million Simon Cowell - 95 million E L James - 95 million Howard Stern - 95 million James Patterson - 91 million Glenn Beck - 90 million Micheal bay- 82 million Jerry Bruckheimer - 80 million Lady Gaga - 80 million Tyler Perry - 78 million Tiger Woods - 78 million Oprah Winfrey - 77 million Robert Downey Jr - 75 million Dr. Phil - 72 million Roger Federer - 71 million Dick Wolf - 70 million Rush Limbaugh - 66 million Toby Keith - 65 million Mark Burnett - 63 million Bringing our top dawgs to a total of $1648 million. There is an average of 33 thousand people in America, living in poverty. We all know how celebrities love to preach about giving back and doing your part. So, lets imagine they walked what they talked by donating last years income to the impoverished people of America. To be nice, lets leave them each 1 million dollars to live off of and say they donated the rest. I think 1 million is good enough to live off of for a year, dont you? (This is not including their savings account) That would be $1628 million in donations to needy Americans. Which would equate to providing every one of the 33 thousand struggling Americans a check for $49,333.00 This is why I scoff when normals swoon over celebrities doing little look at me stunts, claiming to be philanthropic. Sure, its nice that Robert Downey invited a bunch of kids over to his house to watch Iron Man for free, and Lady Gaga with her bogus charities, and Oprah Winfrey giving away toaster ovens on her show, or Dr. Phil giving caring tips to those in need... but so much more can be done. Call me communistic, call me socialist - but numbers dont lie and there should be no reason why 33,000 go hungry while 20 people make that much money. No reason. #moneywhereyourmouthis
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:07:31 +0000
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