U2’s Bono defend’s Apple’s Steve Jobs' lack of philanthropy

"a man who hasn’t been afraid to call out world leaders in the past for their lack of action on the African crisis". More baloney and nonsense from Irish Central. Sure, he "called out" guys like Blair and Bush -- so much that he became the best buddy of these warmongers! It's easy for Bono to bluster, talk is cheap. He even deserted his own country in an attempt to save a buck. Bono is no philantropist, he's a selfish bastard. And that's entirely his own business. It only becomes a public issue when he is berating taxpayers for not paying more taxes in order to prop up corrupt Third World regimes.

Why do I at 82 years have to pay 500EURO Taxes on my late husbands Pension. I live in the USA????????????????

Giuseppe, if you think the huge rate of unemployment in Ireland is cause for laughter and levity then all I can say is what kind of weird values do you have. I certainly don't take advice from weirdos, keep it for your psychiatrist.

My daughters ipod was stolen at school. I wrote a letter to Mr Jobs asking if there was any type of tracking possible. We were not going to replace it right away due to the cost. Mr Jobs sent her a new one! Now some may say it was nothing to him..but it meant a lot to us. He didn't have to do it..he chose to do it. I thought it was very kind of him and our family thinks the world of him. It may have been just a small thing to him, but to us it was a big deal. He is always in our prayers....

a tax dodger and friend are like birds of a feather - gandy dancer types.

Well Debbie: You are full of surprises, according to you, according to Bono...Steve Jobs has said...There is nothing better than the chance to SAVE LIVES and I whole heartly agree. However somebody needs to tell the journalists of the New York Times, The Daily News and the New York Post about Jobs noble and compassionate statement... Since 1973 over 83 millon weak and defenceful growing human beings have been killed in the American branch of the abortion holocaust. Why the silence about this evil? Why Debbie?

George Dillon.........You sound or at lease you write in a most negative way. Is life that grim for you? Your comments.......never positive. Take a walk, get some sunshine.

it seems there was some irish law protecting "artists" from taxes in Ireland. when this law was dismantled Bono and U2 quickly moved ALL of their assets out of the country to avoid paying irish taxes that is how much of an upright guy he is http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aef6sR60oDgM

Tax dodging over subsidised out of touch with too much access to the press.

A few years ago Bono was on a big Cancel the Debt kick, in which he asked taxpayers in wealthier countries to cancel the debt owed by African countries. But he's been very silent on canceling the Irish debt. Why isn't he campaigning for that, between his trips to the Riviera? And how come he doesn't organize some kind of Live Aid concert for the Irish unemployed? Answer--he's a sanctimonious hypocrite.

ENGLISH, people! If you're wrtiting for a newspaper, how did you ever come up with "DEFEND'S" as a verb? Who's editing this?? Is it so off-putting. There's no bloody apostrophe in the verb "defends"!

His Cash, his Choice.

He gave full time employment to thousands of people. That is his gift to society.

Not every philanthropist wants to be on the cover of Time. Some feel that they work better behind the scenes