Sure! All the old people who can’t get by on Social Security should all go out and volunteer, to give this asshole that warm fuzzy feeling they get from free labor. This is the same billionaire who said raising taxes was like Hitler invading Poland:
DAVOS, Switzerland — Private equity investor Stephen Schwarzmann is generally a believer in the power of money, a trait that has netted him billions of dollars worth of that useful commodity. But when it comes to education, Schwarzman says more money is not necessarily a fix for ailing American public schools.
Despite the financial industry arguing that high pay on Wall Street is needed to retain and develop talent, Schwarzman suggested a potential solution for America education challenges could be unpaid labor.
“I’ve always wondered, what you do in a society with people who just retire,” he told conference attendees. “If you could get those people, like a board, unpaid workforce, pay them next to nothing or nothing, and have them go into the school system to be mentors to kids, and be an example of a certain type of success that you would get dramatically different outcomes. If you can get unemployed people that cost nothing, that can have this dramatic difference, that costs nothing. I love things that cost nothing that have great results. Imagine if you laid on technology and other types of things, you could really set the world on fire with this type of stuff.”
Schwarzman touted Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s efforts to let religious groups run unpaid student mentorship programs in public schools. Kasich has moved to make extra education funding contingent on schools supporting those programs, a move the American Civil Liberties Union says might be unconstitutional.
So why doesn’t MR Billionaire, volunteer to be an unpaid mentor himself? Obviously he can afford it, since he has billions of dollars. I’ll bet he can’t conceive of doing anything like that where he wouldn’t get paid. He’s a hypocrite, a parasite and a money hoarder. We need to stop worshipping people like that in this country. They are no better than anyone else, in fact they are worse than everyone else. Why do we listen to the stupid ideas of people with too much money? If hoarding stuff is a mental disease, why isn’t hoarding money?
Simple folk take 1% elitists like Schwarzmann and mount their heads on pikes.
This guy’s worth what……like $ 5 billion dollars? To accumulate that sort of outrageous wealth old Stephen must have been working people for nothing or next to nothing for decades. So of course he would like everybody to work for nothing.
Like every other oligarch Stephen feels that he’s entitled to shoot his mouth off with what he considers to be remarkable ideas. After all he’s a self-made man who became wealthy by his own wits and with nobody’s help.
Like every other oligarch Stephen is a class A idiot.