Now you've done it. Damning John D. with faint praise. He 'did' give away dimes as a publicity gesture, and it worked pretty well.

Starting from a fundamentalist Baptist foundation he extended his philanthropy in depth and breadth, was abolitionist in outlook and progressive in approach.

He also endowed The University of Chicago, and through his foundation Johns Hopkins, as well as being a philanthropist his entire professional life, well before he made the big time.

There's plenty of worse billionaires out there than John D.

Until you've actually studied the big picture, you haven't successfully made the case against Wal-Mart either.