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
My, my, he almost sounds like one of our numerous
mosquitos....um....I mean contard trolls. Whenever someone disagrees with his neocon viewpoint by suggesting we maybe ought to take care of American citizens instead of exploiting them for the profits of corporations, he calls them "socialists". I can't even count how many times I've earned that title on here from such esteemed "thinkers" as Q, weasy, shithedd, hatey and all their various sockpuppets and manifestations. I guess Jon must think his daughter is a socialist too, acting as a goodwill ambassador for the socialist UN. You'd think he would have raised her better, eh?
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By UffdaguyAugust 8, 2008 - 9:45am