Lunch With Warren Buffett? That’ll Be $3.5 Million
- Posted on June 9, 2012 at 7:53am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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It’s probably safe to say this is someone who would qualify for the “Buffett rule”: An anonymous bidder is forking over nearly $3.5 million to have lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
According to the Associated Press, it’s part of an annual charity auction Buffett takes part in every year to raise money for the Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless in San Francisco. This year’s winning bid was a record-breaking $3,456,789.
The Gilde Foundation said this year’s winner has chosen to remain anonymous; 10 other people were actively involved in the bidding, which jumped in the auction’s last hour from $1 million to the final $3.46 million.
Winning bids have topped $2 million every year for the last four years, setting records every time. Last year’s winner paid $2,626,411 to break bread with Buffett.
Buffett has made news last year after he penned an op-ed for the New York Times calling for Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy. President Barack Obama subsequently took up the case for what became known as the “Buffett rule,” which would have seen those making more than $1 million annually pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. The plan was derailed in the Senate in April.
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Comments (47)
the1whowaites
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 5:10pmOk here is Warren’s advice at his lunch, buy companies, fire everybody take the money and buyan insurance company, don’t pay taxes, repeat until your old and reday to meet satan. That will be 3.5 mil please.
Report Post »BFrezza
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:03pmOkay, I’ll take the $3.5M to eat with this worthless individual, but not a penny less. And he needs to pick up the check and leave a good tip too. But no conversation, I just want to get this over as quickly as possible.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 10, 2012 at 4:34amAccording to the AP the Glide Foundation has an annual budget of around $17 MILLION for “social services” for the homeless and poor. With a budget of $17 million A YEAR, couldn’t they just like… ask Mr. Kindly Benefactor Warren Buffet to help them start a business and put those who are able to work? Give them some dignity? The gift of independence?
(Here, let‘s put that in a Van Jone’s voice: GIVE THEM SOME DIGNITY!
GIVE THEM SOME INDEPENDENCE FROM THE MAN!)
$17 million every year….yeah, there’s big bucks in keeping people homeless and poor.
Report Post »Leader1776
Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:03pmGETLIFE
Report Post »Hmmmmm ………….. 17mil a year for the homeless. That’s a lot of homeless. And how much goes to the ‘admin fees’ for this charity. After about 5yrs of that budget most of the ‘homeless’ should be pretty well healed. Or is that just for the medicinal marijuana and other ‘therapies’?
GETLIFE
Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:55pmYeah LEADER, 17million a year. Can you believe it? Here’s the link:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/buffetts-charity-lunch-auction-ends-friday-night-16523694#.T9TdlbWvkfU
Thing that gets me about Buffett is his boyish/honest/corn huskin’ demeanor– when he’s really just an msm-using Washington power monger based in Nebraska.
Report Post »groundzero
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 2:44pmWill that be used to pay for the BACK TAXES of Bershire-Hathaway (Buffett company) 1 BILLION owed?
Report Post »db321
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 3:00pmUp in age now. Buffet use to have a good solid reputation. Now that he is in bed with Obama, Soros and the 99%. I wouldn’t walk across the street to spit on him if he was on fire. He is a Great Anti-American.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 1:31pmI think he should invite the 99% to join him , and pick up the check, after all he could write it off as
Report Post »a business expense, since he seems reluctant to pay his “fair share” !
tcseacliff
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 4:09pmmaybe they should hold the luncheon with the occupiers.maybe serve some beer too!
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:11amHe is teaching Obama how to use lunch more effectively.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:39amI‘d drop some bath salts in his soup when he wasn’t lookin………
Report Post »Teritd
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:05amWhy would you pay 3.5 million to dine with an old Obama-loving fart like Buffet when you can give the money directly to a charity of your own choosing? The 1% obama-loving hippocrites don’t know what else to do with their money.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 11:01amI couldn‘t be paid enough to be having a meal with George Soro’s brother.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Knot4u2no
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:59amExcerpts from Warren Buffett’s 12/30/07 BRACE Character Profile:
Report Post »Dr. X indicated that one of his hobbies is studying the investing mind of Mr. Warren Edward Buffett. Dr. X submitted the input ratings asking what information about Mr. Buffett’s investing mind could be gleaned from these subjective estimations. ..The author suggested that Dr. X formulate seven questions of interest to focus the analysis: an individual with a strong sense of self and purpose…some type of internal conflict, perhaps of competing values and beliefs. A deeper level of analysis follows…an individual who is calculating and determined, but pro-social rather than anti-social. It is particularly important to note that there is a high degree of cognitive flexibility/adaptability but a very focused and unrelenting pursuit of fixed goals and objectives…an uncompromising individual when it comes to basic values and beliefs…a narrow range of pleasures and interests, and a felt need for independence, order and control, but this individual is neither selfish nor exploitive. There is a high desire for predictability…suggest that the preoccupation with and desire for power and control is driven by an underlying interpersonal anxiety…These findings confirm an absence of antisocial thought processes and motivation, in combination with a high sensitivity to interpersonal processes and nonverbal cues.[responses to 7 questions follow].
zoro51
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:38amlunch wiht a OLD TROLL hell no id pay to have lunch with donald trump not a weeniee like warren.. BLECH
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:38amlunch wiht a OLD TROLL hell no id pay to have lunch with donald trump not a weeniee like warren.. BLECH
Report Post »affinity
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:29amWhy?
Report Post »NanAnn
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 10:09amI’ve sat the table behind Buffett twice in Omaha. Definitely not worth $3.5 million…..
Report Post »Redleg99
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:51amEvery town in America needs to encourage there homeless to go to San Francisco for some of that Buffet money.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:45amTrying to raise money to pay his back taxes?
Hypocrite!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:44amSomeone that’s stupid to pay 3.5 million for lunch with Warren Buffett for San Francisco. homeless ? maybe I could sell him the golden gate bridge why pickens are ripe .!!!!!!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:29amLOL, I can’t help but laugh at the responses like those from TROLLMONGER who attempts to deflect. Yeah right, turd for brains, Beck must be charging $3.5 million for those things you mentioned. The left and so called 99% still have me laughing. They snuggle up to the likes of Buffett then attempt to excoriate the Koch Brothers. Hypocrisy is thy name.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:36amShould have mentioned your dream of Beck charging 4 million. You need to stop pulling these lies from your ass. They really do stink.
Report Post »Stiggs
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:28amWonder if they’re serving chocolate-covered moose almonds…..
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:18am$3.5 million for lunch? Pricing like that is why I stopped going to Starbucks
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:08amBuffett smells like obamapoo.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:30amIs that like shamPOO, or pooh?
Report Post »gimmeliberte
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:05ami wonder how buffett would have felt about socialism if he tried making his fortune under sociallism. no, he would have been a conservative pissed off that his hard earned money is being stolen and wasted on the homeless he feeds now
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:31amDoes the bidder get to take the price as a tax break ….“annual charity auction” ?
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:44amMaybe if he paid me 3 million I might consider it . Who in their right mind would want to sit across from this old fool watching him drool and spitting food across the table? Maybe Obama would like to have lunch with him?
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:50amI could see if it was someone remotely interesting, but Warren Buffet, really? Talk about a snooze fest.
Report Post »BlazeGlory
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:54amI would love to see Buffett have Obama for lunch.
Report Post »gimmeliberte
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:34am@blazeglory: give buffer some of those psychedelic bath salts and they’ll be naked eating eachother in no time:)
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:30amOkay anonymous bidder when you have your luncheon with the crony capitalist ask him why he doesn’t pay the 1 billion in back taxes he owes the IRS yet wants the tax rates to go up.
Report Post »BlazeGlory
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:27amI wonder if they’ll be dining on gold-covered roasted babies.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:31amWhen Beck and his two goons arrive to watch and crack jokes about it.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:32amI like my roasted baby with ranch dressing.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:50amI think that is a Build-a-Burger thing………Alex told me
Report Post »RP 2012
RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:32amPROGRESSIVESLAYER, LOL, make that Ranch with Bacon.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:24amDinner with Glenn Beck….4 million. Plus required purchases of goldline, GBTV, and other apocalyptic fear mongering items.
Report Post »illogger
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 9:20pmTo all that thinks we are fear mongers on this site when the world wide toilet flushes I hope you go down with all the floaties because as painful as it maybe it’s what the world needs. Good riddens!!!!!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:06amBuffett rule makes anyone over a million pay MORE than 30%?? How do they figure that. The numbers don’t add up. Most people who pay taxes at any level pay more than that. Our money is taxed over and over and over again. Only “investment income” is taxed at 15% and even then is subject to future taxes if you SPEND it. we don’t need to be giving our government any more hard earned dollars so they can BLOW them in Vegas or Hawaii! I think the people have said “ENOUGH!” Get you spending under control FIRST. I say let all those RICH big mouths who want to pay more, volunteer to DO SO and use it ONLY to reduce the deficit we are handing our kids.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:03amWarren Buffet’s secretary cannot afford to eat with Warren Buffet. Where’s Obama on this travesty? I know as with everything else…..Oblamo is not for it or against it but will take both sides if he can get some votes……
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