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The executive director of the World Food Program is calling for the world’s billionaires to step up and help his organization fight hunger... David Beasley... said he was supportive of capitalism but added that capitalism without a heart is a disaster... Beasley said that the world’s billionaires needed to step up. He specifically mentioned Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and said that he needed just 10% of the $64 billion Bezos’s wealth grew by last year to fund the food program... Beasley also lambasted the media at several points during his speech for focusing on distractions like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and not focusing on the food needs of the world. He called for the media to be more balanced between those distractions and the food needs of the world.

— David Beasley: World's billionaires need to step up to help World Food Program, Matthew Christian,

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David Beasley

About David Beasley

David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26, 1957) is an American politician and the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. Beasley, a member of the Republican Party, served one term as the 113th Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999.