US now has 793 billionaires

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Coin Toss — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:24:17 GMT

Yeah, my faux pas, it was worldwide, sorry.

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Bradly_60 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:56:42 GMT

Actually isn't there only 700+ billionaires in the world total. That number sounds way to high to be the amount in the US alone.

Brad

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sirbrad — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:26:08 GMT

Pwned.

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four4me — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:05:30 GMT

It's a known fact the Bill and Melinda are one of the worlds largest givers of money his foundation is world wide.

HAMISH ROBERTSON: The software giant Microsoft decided last week that it was time to hand back to its shareholders its $80 billion cash reserves in a special dividend. The cash giveaway means that the company's founder, Bill Gates, who's one of the world's richest men, would receive another $4.5 billion.

But Mr Gates has decided that he won't be keeping the money. Instead... [ More ]

Reply #11

Coin Toss — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:50:34 GMT

There's a website, www.charitywatch.org or something similar that gives you the rundown on different charities, what they support, and especially administrative costs. The Salvation Army is among those with the lowest admin. costs.

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xavier102772 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:31:57 GMT

Charities are essentially another form of big business, where the organizers are quite well off in most cases. And in some cases, there are charities that are outright scams working for or are friends of businesses. Money laundering if you will. There is almost no charity that you give to that the guy in charge isn't making a lot of money for himself, and giving some to the poor unfortunates is simply an afterthought of the main goal of their own personal greed. Personally, if I were rich, I... [ More ]

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sirbrad — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:53:17 GMT

I will settle for just being a lowly millionaire any day. And I am talking on the VERY low end as well.

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Amazing Grace — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:05:04 GMT

How much do you think Microsoft gave to Chairty last year

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Coin Toss — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:49:56 GMT

Some of those billionaires probably give more to charity in a year than many of us make in a lifetime.

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xavier102772 — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:45:38 GMT

You really have to wonder what's wrong with society when there are so many billionaire's, yet there is still poverty on every street corner and every nation.

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Amazing Grace — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:20:33 GMT

And How many children that go hungry daily

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JAP69 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:55:06 GMT

One of those who made themself a billionaire was from canada and he moved to costa rica and started an internet gambling site.

And if he is the one he takes guarter bets on the lottery also.

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Triple Tree — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:43:44 GMT

Gee, I somehow thinks that there are some successful businessmen who may have used money from lottery wins to be where they are today, it's just that I don't think they'll feel good about telling people that they made good with some money from heaven

The only person I read of that made good with money won in a lottery is Jose Silva founder of the Silva Method, having exhausted his money in his research, he dreamt of numbers which won him $10,000 in the lottery. (I read it in the book Gett... [ More ]

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LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:11:02 GMT

well true critic i'm sure whoever owns peter pan makes a nice comfortable living and i'm thinking he might be sandwhiched in the fortune 500 somewhere......

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truecritic — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:22:02 GMT

I am willing to bet that not one of them credits the lottery for their success!

LOL

US now has 793 billionaires

Coin Toss — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:01:42 GMT

A news item said there was an addittional 102 billionaires in the US. bringing the total to 793.

102 - 793