$1.3 Billion Needed To Make Forbes' Richest Americans List

Please read this article.

"The Carlyle/Haliburton Show is Shifting into 'OVERDRIVE'"

http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/09/carlylehaliburton-show-is-going-into.html

It's not looking good folks. Something EXTREMELY SHADY in the works by these 'billionaires'. Pay attention the the Dubai/Nasdaq trade and the current Carlyle deal in the UAE.

They are linked, folks.

Gates and Buffet became rich by doing things no one else can do.

Now they're giving most of their billions to charity. No one else can do that, either.

I simply do not know what to say that is meaningful about this list. It portends of so much, to so many people in so many different ways.

Is this what life is all about? You know I have never seen a hearse being followed by a Brinks truck.

Life's somtimes a bitch, sometimes great, then you die.

The Rothschilds are a heck of a lot richer than these guys, Rockefeller's too.

Maybe if Bush would not have eliminated their taxes, the richest on the Forbes list would have needed a mere one billion to qualify instead of 1.3 Billion. But how the hell could they squeak by without the money they saved in taxes?

The coincidence of numbers facinates me.

I mentioned this week that the UN was spendinding 2.5 million/year on peacekeeping in Darfur while at the same time the war in Iraq costs 2.5 million/week.

Notice today, it takes 1.3 billion to get on the Forbes list and we are investigating 6 billion in Iraq. That's at least 4 changes on the list

Six billion+ humans on the planet. More than half living in abject (or near abject) poverty. And here we are, year after year, having Forbes pompously presenting the obsenely, filthy rich list of billionaires for all of us to admire, idolize, envy, and stand in shock and awe.
They should all be more modest and shy away from Forbes overrated "yearly event", and just thank whatever supernatural entity they believe in for their inmense fortunes.

I am surprised there are not more comments about how horrible it is that these people have so much money due to their innovation, creation, and hard work. Still, there will always be the people who say theses guys "don't know what to do" with their earnings, or how its "obscene" and how their ideas and fortune are so horrible. When someone did not go out and earn it they always have ideas for other people's money.

Yeah, rail on Wal-Mart for low pay, yet they employ tens of thousands people and those who work hard do get promoted and can make a decent life for themselves. My cousin is testament to that. You just continue to believe this is the '50's and a stock person should be a job where you could support a house, 2 cars and 2.5 kids, which is no longer reality in today's world.

Harp on Microsoft which employes thousands and makes computer life easier. Gates took an idea and went further than you, and some of you can't stand that. And then he protected his investment from lazy S.O.B.'s who whine that he's too superior. Same with Dell. And let's not forget people who educate themselves in the financial world and play the market right.

Go out and make a living on your own for a start!

And we care how?

time for a new revolution. it's just utter bullshit, this new guilded age. meanwhile, screw the c-ship, screw the middle class, and screw the poor. where are the goddamn pitchforks, already?

Two words - ob scene ~~
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Just rewards for the folks not getting into the kingdom of heaven.

The crisis in morality that we are facing today is due to the lack of good role models for young people. Let's see. We have a president who lies to the public. We have the richest man in the world whose idea of success is to crush his rivals, dominate an industry, and has so much money that he hasn't a clue what to do with it (although he is now coming around). We have sports figures who hawk clothes, and get paid more just for the use of their name and face than all the people in third world countries making those clothes. In ghettos, we have drug dealers as the most successful role models. On the Internet we have the purveyors of smut, the apologists of Neocon Land, the coulters, malkins . . . urging murder, forced obedience, torture, forceful conversion to blind dogma and worship of authority. . . in the name of Jesus?

The joys of a flourishing war economy...joys for some that is.

The uber-rich aren't depending on mere police to keep them safe......

Of course those same private security forces also serve to protect them FROM the police.... those private "guards" let the wealthy avoid subpoenas served BY the police......