Despite my criticism of Soros, he has done a lot of good and charitable things like programs to feed children and I always give credit where credit is due:
"Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.
Soros' philanthropic funding includes efforts to promote non-violent democratization in the post-Soviet states. These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland). As of 2003, PBS estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion. The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years.
Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects - $100 million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $6 billion.
Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, and Transparency International. Soros also pledged an endowment of €420 million to the Central European University (CEU). The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance bank Grameen Bank received support from the OSI."
However he has so much power that he has a "God Complex" and he admits it:
From the book Do as I Say Not as I Do:
"Like many other wealthy men, Soros fancies himself a philosopher and travels the world preaching his own eccentric gospel, based on the ideas developed by Karl Popper in The Open Society a society that would "maximize the freedom of individuals to live as they wish." He also touts an esoteric idea of "equilibrium" that even his friends and associates seem nor to understand. Soros speaks with such religious zeal that it prompted one journalist to suggest he be appointed pope. "Why?" he responded. "I'm the pope's boss now." Soros's God complex is a matter of public record. Indeed. while charging that Bush's religious faith makes him mentally unfit for office, Soros has himself admitted to messianic impulses. "I fancied myself as some kind of god." Soros once said. On other occasions he's noted, "If the truth be known. I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, Otherwise they might get me in trouble." But he has apparently come to terms with the problem. "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god. the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out." "
A god complex is a non-clinical term generally used to describe an individual who consistently believes they can accomplish more than is humanly possible or that their opinion is automatically above those they may disagree with.
The individual may believe he or she is above the rules of society and should be given special consideration.
See also
* Narcissistic personality disorder (also known as "God Complex") * Hubris * Megalomania * Messiah complex * Playing God (ethics)