Comments on: How to marry a billionaire? Start with Forbes list

To even make the magazine's annual survey of richest Americans this year, you had to have at least $1 billion.

[cary1]

Jobs behind Balmer???

that's interesting!

[danny_f]

dude

you need to get out more.

[ordaj]

The rich do get richer

The rest of us get:

-increases in health care costs
-jobs moved overseas and layoffs
-no minimum wage increase
-higher gas prices
-spied on
-to die in war
-more hours for less pay, or that 2nd job
-manipulated markets
-to watch CEOs with platinum parachutes, exorbitant "pay" packages
-American Idol & Katie Couric
-tainted spinach, water, air, government

Do you feel safer now? Thank god the rich can get that 4th yacht.

Why doesn't Forbes put out a 400 poorest Americans issue. Oh, that's right, because it's more like 40 million.

[No_Man]

Ye reap what ye sow...

The rest of us create headaches for everyone by:

- driving up health care costs with obesity, smoking, drug
abuse, and frivolous malpractice lawsuits

- supporting corrupt unions

- buying SUV's and other absurd gas guzzlers

- failing to support troops who volunteered to protect their
country

- driving up taxes by leaching off of welfare and social security

- investing in companies with corrupt management

- watching Katie Couric and voting on American Idol

- buying the plastics, chemical, and other manufactured goods
that destroy our environment


In short, if you want to see the problem with America... look in
the mirror.

[David Arbogast]

sure... if they work for it.

Most of the people in the list are "self-made" billionares. In other words, they didn't inheret their money... they found ways to EARN it. You just should jealous.

[David Arbogast]

Try working, saving, and investing.

The REST of us? In case you haven't noticed, most of the billionaires on the list are self-made... meaning, they worked to earn their money, and did not inheret it. Meaning... they USED to be part of "the rest of us," until they worked and earned their way up. The fact that America even has this many billionaires, and the fact that they are almost all self-made really goes to show that opportunities are bigger and more plentiful in the U.S. - for people who are willing to work for those opportunities. Sounds to me like you are just jealous.

[Llib Setag]

Company Picnics

OR suck up to the big boss man at the Redmond One Company Picnic...
"Hi my name is Melinda..."

[Nubasaurus]

Will

I'd like to know how to get on their good side and be put in their will.

[Björn Lundahl]

In Sweden we have a Capitalist which might be richer than Bill Gates!

Ingvar Kamprad, an industrialist from Sweden. He founded IKEA, the home furnishing retail chain, which sell low priced furniture?s all over the world (235 stores in 33 countries). His business idea was: "We shall offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them."

Go to;
http://www.answers.com/topic/ingvar-kamprad

And to;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA

Photo on a ?typical store?, go to;
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VillepinteFrance.JPG


Björn Lundahl
Göteborg, Sweden