Thursday, October 1, 2009

Forbes 400: Poor, poor billionaires - MSN Money

Forbes 400: Poor, poor billionaires - MSN Money

The 10 richest Americans lost a combined $39.2 billion in the past 12 months, a 14% decline.  $39.2 billion. That could help a lot of people.

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6 comments:

~Betsy said...

Imagine the jobs they could create...

rilera said...
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rilera said...

Yes, they create jobs, in other countries. They have offshored so manny jobs and those jobs are high tech jobs, ones that pay well and that increase our tax base. I know this for sure because I've watch jobs in my own field leave this country in mass.

rilera said...

The billionaire I'm specifically talking about who sends jobs to India is Larry Ellison of Oracle. Bill Gates too has talked of this, and in my state the gov has talked about doing this.

rilera said...

And when they are not offshoring high tech jobs to India, China, etc, they are instead hiring H1-B aliens to fill jobs that they say 'can't be done by US citizens'. So far I've not seen jobs filled that couldn't be done by a US citizen who is completely qualified to do the job. I know lots of laid off workers who could fill these jobs.

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