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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:27 PM
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Yay..Yippee..there are 102 more billionaires in the world this year
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"..


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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:32 PM
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1. Yeah,
I saw that on the CBS news tonight...I was like, whoope de fuckin doo...
:)
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Dhampir Kampf Donating Member (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:33 PM
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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.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:35 PM
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4. no no no...it means MY turn is just around the corner!!!
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:40 PM
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7. and the middle is vanishing fast
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 07:41 PM by Blue_Tires
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
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cspanlovr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:34 PM
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3. Just what we always needed.
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:35 PM
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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.

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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:39 PM
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6. And how many more are in poverty or near poverty to support these people?
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 07:43 PM by Tom Yossarian Joad
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