The
juicy news today
from kabazabagazillionaire-land is that a Chinese investor has made the winning bid — $2.1 million — in a charity auction for a lunch date with Warren Buffett, head honcho of
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
. which owns PacifiCorp which operates certain dams on the Klamath River that cause quite a few salmon to have a major, major headache.
OK, it is for charity. Still, good taste might suggest that Zhao Danyang of Pureheart
China
Growth Investment Fund order something other than the anadromous entree.
This article appears in The Iceman Cometh.
Warren Buffett likes to consider himself a philanthropist, and I appreciate some of the issues he has taken on. For example, he’s against repealing the federal inheritance tax; he’s part of a club of ultrawealthy Americans (Bill Gates included) who have lobbied for keeping this tax.
But I feel his refusal to budge on the Klamath Dams issue is a black mark on his reputation as a liberal.
That’s a thought not a feeling bird.