No Man Is an Island No Matter How Rich He Is
The Century Foundation recently held a conference titled "Billionaires and Their Impact" to examine, well, billionaires. Seems like we got a lot more of them than we used to.
This year Forbes magazine listed 1,125 billionaires in the world, compared to 946 in 2007—and a measly 140 billionaires in 1986, the first year of the publication's ranking.
They're multiplying, but none of them are you so it might be a good idea to find out what they plan to do with the planet, seeing as how they own it - or think they do. You can see a bunch of videos of the conference here, including my recommendation: my buddy David Cay Johnston of the NYT talking about how billionaires who don't think they owe nobody nothin' actually owe a lot of people a lot, people without whom they would still be sweeping floors at the Hardie's.
And yes, that includes - especially includes - Senor Bill G.
(Videos are in QuickTime, which I don't know hot to post here or I'd post a couple. There's a bunch of them and some of them are...surprising.)
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- August 7, 2008
Here ya go, Suave
From that most 'prestigious' of newspapers ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/
"VOIGHT: My concerns for America
Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people:
Considering that this guy is pretty much washed up, and, since he hasn't gotten many jobs of late, he's probably hoping the Repugs hang in there so he can continue to live off the tax breaks. He knows that if Obama gets elected, he may have to go work on, the HORRORS, a soap opera, or even worse, 'Dancing with the Stars", therefore, I'm not putting too much stock in what this freak show has to say.
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin
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By Pookie2112August 8, 2008 - 9:34am