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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:14 PM
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793 billionaires in the US with combined net worth of $2.6 trillion.
Edited on Thu May-08-08 01:15 PM by seemslikeadream
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DB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:20 PM
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1. Round 'em up, take all their $, and we'd still owe 400 billion for Iraq.
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ohioINC Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:23 PM
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2. Philanthropy
If only mor of them were like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates rather than the Waltons.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:29 PM
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3. Most would be most useful...
On a spit, over a smoky hardwood fire, slow-cooked and mopped with a North Carolina-style mop sauce. Otherwise, most of them run counter to every interest I have.
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:39 PM
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4. divie
If we divie it up, that's almost $10K for every man, woman and child in the US.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:40 PM
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5. damn...almost like the dotcom boom in the 90s...
except back then i thought everyone BUT me was was making millions; now i know there are at least a few others here and there who aren't making millions as well
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:42 PM
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6. So all the shit we have to endure on a daily basis is for 793 people?
:mad:
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Kitty Herder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:49 PM
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7. Doesn't that just make you want to spit nails?
It does me. It shows that to those in power, money is more important than people. But, then we already knew that around here.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 01:52 PM
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8. It's that trickle down effect
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 02:00 PM
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9. Just once I'd like to see one of those rich assholes fly coach.
Hey if it's good enough for us it's good enough for them.
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