Yay..Yippee..there are 102 more billionaires in the world this year

[SoCalDem]

I wonder when CNN will do a piece on how many UNEMPLOYED people there are this year.. I will sleep better knowiing that Bill & Melinda have their 50Billion to keep their household afloat..:puke:

I bet their daughter will have no problem finding dates.. An only child of Bill Gates will be a good "catch"..

[Broken_Hero]

1. Yeah,

I saw that on the CBS news tonight...I was like, whoope de fuckin doo...
:)

[Dhampir Kampf]

2. I think they're trying to point out the bigger picture.

...Which is, the rich are getting richer.


Which ultimately means that the poor, are getting poorer.

[ret5hd]

4. no no no...it means MY turn is just around the corner!!!

[Blue_Tires]

7. and the middle is vanishing fast

one of these days, this country will end up like Brazil or Argentina, where 80 percent of the people are either filthy rich or filthy poor

[cspanlovr]

3. Just what we always needed.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I saw that story...and, for about 5 minutes, thought about posting it...

...and thought about a friend from church, whose son lost his job and tried unsuccessfully to find another one...he got a lot of $9.00/hr offers, certainly not a "living wage" in Silicon Valley, and especially if you have a wife, two kids and a mortgage. He worked at Costco for a bit, but found that the pace was killing him (he's in his mid-40s, and it was a very physically demanding, on-the-go position). So he sold his house, packed up the family and moved to Palm Springs.

For every billionaire motherf**ker strikes it rich story, there are probably two or three hundred like my friend's.

"The haves and the have mores...what a GREAT lookin' group of people." I hope that stuff about the camel and the eye of the needle is true.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. And how many more are in poverty or near poverty to support these people?