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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Were You Ostracized?
Sometimes a person you may know comes to "get it in for you". If they are a friend,they MAY forgive you. But if they were a NARCISSISTIC "friend", they have waited perhaps YEARS for this lifetime of REVENGE Excuse.
You ...faithful are the wounds of a true friend. You forgive your friend,,,sometimes because they ARE your friend...sometimes because you just do not hold grudges.
A NARSISSISTIC person will slander you to all your acquaintances and friends, telling them you cannot keep secrets, you are despicable for one reason or another, etc.
If they THINK you despise gays...they may tell people YOU are gay.
They may spend the rest of their lives trying to give YOU PAIN either mentally or physically.
Also called TOXIC, the NARCISSIST will take advantage of everything you say or do to TRY to hurt you in some way. Then the grinning GLOAT will be to themselves mostly.
If inlaws are involved they may tell the inlaws that THEY are out of the WILL or not getting LOANS should they even SPEAK to YOU!
Then they will be as nice as possible to OVERFEED YOU, say things to turn your spouse against you, etc.
I would mention some PRANKS I've sustained, survived...but I do not want to give anyone IDEAS.
If the NARCISSIST you cannot flee from PRANKS YOU, DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that YOU KNOW WHAT they did to you. Just act like NOTHING happened.
Otherwise, EXPECT DAILY "PRANKS"....more backstabbing, etc. You can PRAY for them....but DO NOT APOLOGIZE because this ENCOURAGES THEM. You cannot help them overcome being a NARCISSIST.
This person will manipulate YOUR SPOUSE in every way possible to SPITE YOU. The NARSSISSIST
will endeavor to indebt your spouse with gardening, spending lots of money on the house, etc. Do you NEED lawn furniture? The NARCISSIST will decide your spouse needs to BUY it and WILL buy it...Should YOU complain about all the FREE MEALS the NARCISSIST wants for the narcissist and spouse, your spouse may NOT do it in front of YOU but will even LIE to spend money treating the manipulator to meal after meal.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Dispicable In Eye of Beer Holder er Beholder.
Harry Binswanger, former college professor and board member of the Ayn Rand Institute, wrote an incendiary column for July 2014 in Forbes, arguing that “the community should give back to the wealth-creators” since the world is indebted to the rich and powerful for “their enormous contributions to our standard of living.”
Binswanger was interviewed by The Daily Ticker’s Aaron Task and Henry Blodget who questioned him about his controversial views. He also reiterated his opinion that anyone who earns more than $1 million a year deserves an exemption from paying taxes, a “symbolic gesture” he notes, because the “great achievers lifted us out of the cave and gave us our standard of living.”
These 1% are individuals like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs.
Binswanger also proposes that the highest earner of the year, maybe an investment banker, hedge fund manager or CEO – could be given a Congressional Medal of Honor in return for his or her contribution to human life. Of course, if it happens to be George Soros, a golden spray-painted over-ripe tomato on a, Hope you see Muhammad soon!" piece of yellow pine would be a fitting award.
If millionaires do not pay taxes, do they still get the benefits of public assets, such as the military, firefighters, police officers, court of law and public schools? Certainly, without thier employment of millions, NOBODY would have any money to pay taxes. Of course, tax-dodging politicians giving speeches and writing books full of falsehoods should pay at least 12% as if they were earning below $30,000 annually like many Americans.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Mr. B did not mention sleezy anti-american billionaires like George Soros who donated major loot to Democrat Socialist causes and Van Jones projects. Soros made these donations also to DNC and his Brazilian Deep Sea Drilling oil investment got a loan from the US government for no apparent reason benefiting the USA of $2 Billion PLUS deep sea rigs dis-allowed in the Gulf of Mexico due to the Obama Moratorium on American drilling. These rigs will never return as it too expensive to move them back. The deep drilling oil rigs are in the Pacific Ocean benefiting Soros' investment apparently FOREVER.
A recent study reveals that the top 10% of earners in the U.S. had take-home pay of more than half the country’s total income in 2012. That's the highest level recorded since the government began collecting the data a century ago, according to a New York Times analysis.
Like liberal socialism, U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But it grew again in 2013, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.
The study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty also found that the top 1% of earners enjoyed 95% of the income gains since the recession allegedly ended for people in red states. Meanwhile, incomes for the blue states stagnated from 2009 to 2011 and grew only about 1% in 2012 mostly because Democrats siphon off so much as corruption like heavy equipment rental on twelve under-manned road-work projects going simultaneously for no apparent reason but to "spread the misery" caused by traffic jams.
People as why have incomes for most Americans fallen behind or moved up a small percentage while those of the top earners escallated like a skyrocket?
Perhaps it is like that old adage that it takes money to make money.
“Excess capital that wealthy individuals and institutions had to invest...[during the crisis] has allowed them to accumulate even more wealth than others who didn’t have excess investment capital and are struggling in this economy,"
Prins is a senior fellow at the non-partisan, but liberal-left-leaning think tank Demos, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, and author of the upcoming All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power. Guys like George Soros who are politically connected to Obama, need not spectclate in real estate. They can make more money from foreign oil investments as Soros directly benefited from the BP Gulf Moratorium done by Obama. Mexico and even China kept drilling and possibly spilling.
She says wealthier Americans with savings or good credit were able to buy up foreclosed homes during the crisis at bargain basement prices and collect gains from the housing recovery that followed. Did the Democrats and ACORN set this up for themselves and the "fat cats" by forcing banks and lending institutions to make housing loans to people with insufficient collateral and income to make the payments?Did Congress assist those in charge at Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae to rake in huge undeserved bonuses on housing sold to people with insufficient collateral and income to make the payments? Those without extra money could not take advantage of those investment opportunities while struggling to just get by, or keep their homes out of foreclosure.
In essence, the well-to-do could better weather the crisis and capitalize on it.
The more affluent Americans have benefitted from “the recovery in the stock market due to cheap money,” as Prins describes it. The wealthiest 10% of rich families hold roughly 90% of the stock market, according to The New York Times.
Prins says most of the advantages that wealthy families have seen since the crisis happened are due to policies from Washington. That includes the Federal Reserve’s zero-percent interest rate policy and government subsidies for the banking system at its weakest point. Even the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.) was a government policy to back the banks and the Federal Reserve evoking and securing the confidence of the general public.
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The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden revealing NSA's spy programs are still newsworthy. The newest scandal is about some prominent Americans who might have been spied on because of their race or religion.
The document refers to a legislatively enacted program called FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) that permits the U.S. government to secretly monitor people if it can prove to a judge that the person is participating in terrorism. The majority of the people being monitored were not U.S. citizens.
Later, in 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to increase the number of FIS Court judges from seven to eleven, "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia." The membership of the Court in 2013 is drawn from US Circuit Courts hopefully omitting the 9th which is usually a "circus" rather than a Circuit. Reggie Barnett Walton is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and serves as the former Chief Presiding Judge. Two others are within the twenty mile circle stipulated which should eliminate the possibility of a 9th being possible.
Nevertheless, a few email accounts listed for surveillance did belong to Americans, including a political candidate and Navy veteran, civil-rights activists, academics and lawyers. All of the men have a Muslim background, but none have ever shown signs of supporting violence or terrorism.
One under email surveillance was Faisal Gill, who had served as a bureaucrat under President George W. Bush and even had secret security clearance. A Navy veteran, he had been a former candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates.
The FBI has been accused of racial or religious profiling of Muslims or persons of Irish ancestery before this instance.
According to FBI training materials uncovered by Wired in 2011, the FBI taught its agents to treat “mainstream” Muslims as supporters of terrorism, to view charitable donations by Muslims as “a funding mechanism for combat,” and to view Islam itself as a “Death Star” that must be destroyed if terrorism is to be contained. These are strong opinions verging on a "Trust but verify" sense and sensibility mentality. The FBI would be naive if it viewed “mainstream” Muslims as innocents, charitable donations by Muslims as assistance for the needy and starving and to view Islam itself as a harmless religion that must be tolerated because Muslims never try to take over host countries.
Of all under surveillance, 202 people on the monitoring list are labeled as "U.S. persons."
Under current law, the NSA may directly target a “U.S. person”, that is to say, an American citizen or legal permanent resident, for electronic surveillance only with a warrant approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
An alleged "leaked internal memo" used a slur as a placeholder for the name of the real target.
It would heve been very easy to fake this memo to put the FBI in a bad light. It is even possible that the FBI or NSA monitored the cell phone of Billionaire Sterling to paint him as a racist creating a wonderful distraction from several Obama scandals.
It is not easy to ascertain the criterior for how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
decides if someone is a threat, due to understandable and appropriate secrecy. But, the success rate of gaining approval is very high as the court has approved over 35,000 surveillance requests in 35 years while denying only 12.
This Muslim snooping project is yet another reminder that email and other online communications are not completely secure from monitoring. Monitored persons MAY receive a notice from the government if selected for surveillance of online activity, but it is not very likely as that would tip off guilty parties.
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President Obama’s Kansas speech on or around
12/31/2013 calls for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them.
Obama addresses those who have criticized him for NOT cutting taxes, NOT cutting regulations strangling and holding back business, and those who resist his attempt to shut down coal as an energy source. Allowing Kentucky and West Virginia and other coal producing and using states to have even more coal power stations would break the recession and cause a boom. These things are the obvious solution but Obama wants Andrew Dice Pliven and Clive Caldren over-spending on social programs to throw America into chaos, rip the fabric of freedom and bring on collapse leading to socialism for the later communism he will rule for life over.
Obama: "There is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ’50s and ’60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.
Though not in Washington, I’m in that “certain crowd” that has been saying for decades that the market will take care of everything. It’s not really a crowd, it’s a tiny group of radicals–radicals for capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s well-turned phrase.
The only thing that the market doesn’t take care of is anti-market acts: acts that initiate physical force. That’s why we need government: to wield retaliatory force to defend individual rights.
Radicals for capitalism would, as the Declaration of Independence says, use government only “to secure these rights”–the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. (Yes, I added “property” in there–property rights are inseparable from the other three.)
That’s the free world capitalism political philosophy Obama has been blaming blame for the recent banking financial crisis and every other social problem. The problem with this rationale is that these " few radical capitalists in charge" have not been in charge since 2009 and have NOT been in charge at any time in the 100 years or so.
End of speech...
Exactly 100 years ago a hugely anti-capitalist measure called the Federal Reserve System was the albatross hung about Lady Liberty's neck. Since that time, for over 100 years, government, not the free market, has controlled money and banking. This is the single causitive effect for the value of the dollar TO DECLINE since 1913? Is the 2014 dollar worth 2 cents of its 1913 value or only a PENNY? Reader, you be the judge and jury. How well did the dollar hold up over the 100 years before this government take-over of money and banking? Between 1813 and 1913. the dollar actually gained a bit of value.
"Leave the market be, leave it alone" or Laissez-faire was trumped by the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. That was the first of many government crimes against the free market.
Radical capitalists are deemed in their infancy of having a slight effect on the Right wing. The overwhelming majority on the Right are eclectic, which is a nice way of saying inconsistent.
The typical Republican Establishmentarian would never, ever say “the market will take care of everything.” He’d say, “the market will take care of most things, and for the other things, we need the regulatory-welfare state.”
Republican Establishmentarians are for the individual citizen – except when they are for control and laying-on-of-manipulation . They are against free markets and individualism not only when they agree with the Left that we must have antitrust laws and the Federal Reserve, but also when they demand immigration controls, government schools, regulatory agencies, Medicare, laws prohibiting abortion, Social Security, “public works” projects, the “social safety net,” laws against insider trading, banking regulation, and the whole system of fiat money.
Obama blames economic woes, some real some manufactured (“inequality”) on a philosophy and policy that was abandoned a century ago. What doesn’t exist is what he says didn’t work.
Obama absurdly suggests that timid, half-hearted, compromisers, like George W. Bush, installed laissez-faire capitalism–on the grounds that they tinkered with one or two regulations (Glass-Steagall) and marginal tax rates–while blanking out the fact that under the Bush administration, government spending ballooned, growing much faster than under Clinton, and 50,000 new regulations were added to the Federal Register.
The philosophy of individualism and the politics of laissez-faire would mean government spending of about one-tenth its present level. It would also mean an end to all regulatory agencies: no SEC, FDA, NLRB, FAA, OSHA, EPA, FTC, ATF, CFTC, FHA, FCC–to name just some of the better known of the 430 agencies listed in the federal register.
Even you, dear reader, are probably wondering how on earth anyone could challenge things like Social Security, government schools, and the FDA. But that’s not the point. The point is: these statist, anti-capitalist programs exist and have existed for about a century. The point is: Obama is pretending that the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society were repealed, so that he can blame the financial crisis on capitalism. He’s pretending that George Bush was George Washington.
We radical capitalists say that it was the regulatory-welfare state that imploded in 2008. You may disagree, but let’s argue that out, rather than engaging in the Big Lie that what failed was laissez-faire and individualism.
The question is: in the messy mixture of government controls and remnants of capitalism, which element caused the Great Depression and the recent financial crisis?
By raising that question, we uncover the fundamental: the meaning of capitalism and the meaning of government controls. Capitalism means freedom. Government means force.
Suddenly, the whole issue comes into focus: Obama is saying that freedom leads to poverty and force leads to wealth. He’s saying: “Look, we tried leaving you free to live your own life, and that didn’t work. You have to be forced, you have to have your earnings seized by the state, you have to work under our directions–under penalty of fines or imprisonment. You don’t deserve to be free.”
As a bit of ugly irony, this is precisely what former white slave-owners said after the Civil War: “The black man can’t handle freedom; we have to force him for his own good.” The innovation of the Left is to extend that viewpoint to all races.
Putting the issue as force vs. freedom shows how the shoe is on the other foot regarding what Obama said. Let me re-write it:
there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The government will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just pile on even more regulations and raise taxes–especially on the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the losers are protected by more social programs and a higher minimum wage, if there is more Quantitative Easing by the Fed, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle up to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle up, well, that’s the price of the social safety net.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our intellectuals’ collectivism and Paul Krugman’s skepticism about freedom. That’s in Harvard’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the Soviet Union. It’s not what led to the incredible booms in India and China. And it didn’t work when Europe tried it during over the last decades. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this statist theory.
How does that sound? That’s blaming an actual, existing condition–government controls and wealth-expropriation–not a condition that ended in the late 19th century.
So which is the path to prosperity and happiness–freedom or force? Remember that force is aimed at preventing you from acting on your rational judgment.
Obama’s real antagonist is Ayn Rand, who made the case that reason is man’s basic means of survival and coercion is anti-reason. Force initiated against free, innocent men is directed at stopping them from acting on their own thinking. It makes them, under threat of fines and imprisonment, act as the government demands rather than as they think their self-interest requires. That’s the whole point of threatening force: to make people act against their own judgment.
The radical, unbridled, laissez-faire capitalism that Obama pretends was in place in 2008 is exactly what morality demands. Because, as Ayn Rand wrote in 1961: “No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . To claim the right to initiate the use of physical force against another man–the right to compel his agreement by the threat of physical destruction–is to evict oneself automatically from the realm of rights, of morality and of the intellect.”
Obama and his fellow statists have indeed evicted themselves from that realm of rights. People FEAR Obama and what he can do to them via IRS, EPA and even the
Richest Democrats (MILLION$) and Republicans (Koch family) Bill Gates $66 B 57 Medina, Washington Microsoft 2 Warren Buffett $46 B 83 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway 3 Larry Ellison $41 B 69 Woodside, California Oracle 4 Charles Koch $31 B 77 Wichita, Kansas diversified 4 David Koch $31 B 73 New York, New York diversified 6 Christy Walton & family $27.9 B 58 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart 7 Jim Walton $26.8 B 65 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart 8 Alice Walton $26.3 B 63 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart 9 S. Robson Walton $26.1 B 69 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart 10 Michael Bloomberg $25 B 71 New York, New York Bloomberg LP Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos $23.2 B 49 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com 12 Sheldon Adelson Sheldon Adelson $20.5 B 80 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos 13 Sergey Brin Sergey Brin $20.3 B 40 Los Altos, California Google 13 Larry Page Larry Page $20.3 B 40 Palo Alto, California Google 15 George Soros George Soros $19 B 83 Katonah, New York hedge funds 16 Forrest Mars, Jr. Forrest Mars, Jr. $17 B 82 Big Horn, Wyoming candy 16 Jacqueline Mars Jacqueline Mars $17 B 73 The Plains, Virginia candy 16 John Mars John Mars $17 B 77 Jackson, Wyoming candy 19 Steve Ballmer Steve Ballmer $15.9 B 57 Hunts Point, Washington Microsoft 20 Paul Allen Paul Allen $15 B 60 Mercer Island, Washington Microsoft, investments Carl Icahn Carl Icahn $14.8 B 77 New York, New York leveraged buyouts 22 Michael Dell Michael Dell $14.6 B 48 Austin, Texas Dell 23 Phil Knight Phil Knight $13.1 B 75 Hillsboro, Oregon Nike 24 Donald Bren Donald Bren $13 B 81 Newport Beach, California real estate 25 Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik $12.5 B 56 London, United Kingdom diversified 26 Ronald Perelman Ronald Perelman $12 B 70 New York, New York leveraged buyouts 27 Abigail Johnson Abigail Johnson $11.8 B 51 Milton, Massachusetts money management 28 John Paulson John Paulson $11 B 57 New York, New York hedge funds 28 Laurene Powell Jobs & family Laurene Powell Jobs & family $11 B 49 Palo Alto, California Apple, Disney 28 James Simons James Simons $11 B 75 East Setauket, New York hedge funds Jack Taylor & family Jack Taylor & family $11 B 91 St. Louis, Missouri Enterprise Rent-A-Car 32 Anne Cox Chambers Anne Cox Chambers $10.7 B 93 Atlanta, Georgia media 33 Ray Dalio Ray Dalio $10 B 64 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds 33 George Kaiser George Kaiser $10 B 71 Tulsa, Oklahoma oil & gas, banking 35 Harold Hamm Harold Hamm $9.7 B 67 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma oil & gas 36 Richard Kinder Richard Kinder $9.4 B 68 Houston, Texas pipelines 36 Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch $9.4 B 82 New York, New York News Corp 36 Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg $9.4 B 29 Palo Alto, California Facebook 39 Charles Ergen Charles Ergen $9 B 60 Denver, Colorado EchoStar 40 Steve Cohen Steve Cohen $8.8 B 57 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds Andrew Beal Andrew Beal $8.4 B 60 Dallas, Texas banks, real estate 42 Pierre Omidyar Pierre Omidyar $8.2 B 46 Honolulu, Hawaii Ebay 43 Leonard Lauder Leonard Lauder $7.7 B 80 New York, New York Estee Lauder 44 Philip Anschutz Philip Anschutz $7.6 B 73 Denver, Colorado investments 45 Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt $7.5 B 58 Atherton, California Google 46 Samuel Newhouse, Jr. Samuel Newhouse, Jr. $7.4 B 85 New York, New York Conde Nast 47 James Goodnight James Goodnight $7.3 B 70 Cary, North Carolina Software 47 Patrick Soon-Shiong Patrick Soon-Shiong $7.3 B 61 Los Angeles, California pharmaceuticals 49 Harold Simmons Harold Simmons $7.1 B 82 Dallas, Texas investments 50 Charles Butt Charles Butt $6.9 B 75 San Antonio, Texas supermarkets (H.E.B. AKA "Itchy" Butt and HEB pronounced HEEEB) Donald Newhouse Donald Newhouse $6.6 B 83 Somerset County, New Jersey Conde Nast 52 Edward Johnson, III. Edward Johnson, III. $6.5 B 83 Boston, Massachusetts Fidelity 52 Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren $6.5 B 73 New York, New York Ralph Lauren 52 Ira Rennert Ira Rennert $6.5 B 79 Sagaponack, New York investments 55 Eli Broad Eli Broad $6.3 B 80 Los Angeles, California investments 56 John Menard, Jr. John Menard, Jr. $6 B 73 Eau Claire, Wisconsin Retail 57 David Geffen David Geffen $5.6 B 70 Malibu, California movies, music 57 John Malone John Malone $5.6 B 72 Elizabeth, Colorado cable television 59 Jeffrey Hildebrand Jeffrey Hildebrand $5.5 B 54 Houston, Texas Oil 59 David Tepper David Tepper $5.5 B 55 Livingston, New Jersey hedge funds Gordon Moore Gordon Moore $4.8 B 84 Woodside, California Intel 72 Dannine Avara Dannine Avara $4.7 B 49 Houston, Texas pipelines 72 Scott Duncan Scott Duncan $4.7 B 30 Houston, Texas pipelines 72 Milane Frantz Milane Frantz $4.7 B 44 Houston, Texas pipelines 72 Charles Johnson Charles Johnson $4.7 B 80 Hillsborough, California Money Management 72 Randa Williams Randa Williams $4.7 B 52 Houston, Texas pipelines 77 Rupert Johnson, Jr. Rupert Johnson, Jr. $4.6 B 72 Burlingame, California money management 77 Thomas Peterffy Thomas Peterffy $4.6 B 69 Greenwich, Connecticut discount brokerage 79 Jin Sook & Do Won Chang Jin Sook & Do Won Chang $4.5 B 58 Beverly Hills, California Forever 21 79 David Green David Green $4.5 B 71 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma retail Ann Walton Kroenke Ann Walton Kroenke $4.5 B 64 Columbia, Missouri Wal-Mart 79 Trevor Rees-Jones Trevor Rees-Jones $4.5 B 62 Dallas, Texas Oil & Gas 83 Stephen Ross Stephen Ross $4.4 B 73 New York, New York real estate 83 Leslie Wexner Leslie Wexner $4.4 B 75 New Albany, Ohio retail 85 Bruce Kovner Bruce Kovner $4.3 B 68 New York, New York hedge funds 85 Daniel Ziff Daniel Ziff $4.3 B 41 New York, New York investments 85 Dirk Ziff Dirk Ziff $4.3 B 49 North Palm Beach, Florida investments (Not ZIF the cleaner) 85 Robert Ziff Robert Ziff $4.3 B 47 New York, New York investments 89 S. Truett Cathy S. Truett Cathy $4.2 B 92 Hampton, Georgia Chick-fil-A 89 Leonard Stern Leonard Stern $4.2 B 75 New York, New York real estate (Did Obama "bow" to Stern?) Sumner Redstone Sumner Redstone $4.1 B 90 Beverly Hills, California Viacom 92 John Paul DeJoria John Paul DeJoria $4 B 69 Austin, Texas hair products, tequila 92 Thomas Frist, Jr. & family Thomas Frist, Jr. & family $4 B 75 Nashville, Tennessee health care 92 Barbara Carlson Gage Barbara Carlson Gage $4 B 71 Long Lake, Minnesota hotels, restaurants 92 Bruce Halle Bruce Halle $4 B 83 Paradise Valley, Arizona Discount Tire 92 William Koch William Koch $4 B 73 Palm Beach, Florida oil, investments 92 Henry Kravis Henry Kravis $4 B 69 New York, New York leveraged buyouts 92 Stanley Kroenke Stanley Kroenke $4 B 66 Columbia, Missouri sports, real estate 92 Marilyn Carlson Nelson Marilyn Carlson Nelson $4 B 74 Long Lake, Minnesota hotels, restaurants 100 Nancy Walton Laurie Nancy Walton Laurie $3.9 B 62 Henderson, Nevada Wal-Mart Ted Lerner Ted Lerner $3.9 B 87 Chevy Chase, Maryland real estate 100 Patrick McGovern Patrick McGovern $3.9 B 76 Hollis, New Hampshire media 103 Sam Zell Sam Zell $3.8 B 71 Chicago, Illinois real estate, private equity 104 Gayle Cook Gayle Cook $3.7 B 79 Bloomington, Indiana medical devices 104 George Roberts George Roberts $3.7 B 69 Atherton, California leveraged buyouts 104 Edward Roski, Jr. Edward Roski, Jr. $3.7 B 74 Los Angeles, California real estate 104 Charles Schwab Charles Schwab $3.7 B 76 Atherton, California discount brokerage 108 Malcolm Glazer & family Malcolm Glazer & family $3.6 B 85 Palm Beach, Florida sports teams, real estate 108 Paul Tudor Jones, II. Paul Tudor Jones, II. $3.6 B 58 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds 108 John Sall John Sall $3.6 B 65 Cary, North Carolina software George Lucas George Lucas $3.3 B 69 San Anselmo, California Star Wars (FINALLY...we see George!) 120 Steven Rales Steven Rales $3.3 B 62 Washington, District of Columbia manufacturing 120 Jeffrey Skoll Jeffrey Skoll $3.3 B 48 Woodside, California Ebay 120 Steven Udvar-Hazy Steven Udvar-Hazy $3.3 B 67 Beverly Hills, California aircraft leasing 125 Edward Lampert Edward Lampert $3.2 B 50 Miami Beach, Florida hedge funds 125 Karen Pritzker Karen Pritzker $3.2 B 55 Branford, Connecticut hotels, investments 125 Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg $3.2 B 66 Pacific Palisades, California movies 128 Ron Burkle Ron Burkle $3.1 B 60 London, United Kingdom supermarkets, investments 128 Ken Griffin Ken Griffin $3.1 B 44 Chicago, Illinois hedge funds 128 Haim Saban Haim Saban $3.1 B 68 Beverly Hills, California television Donald Trump Donald Trump $3.1 B 67 New York, New York Television, Real Estate (FINALLY...we see "The Donald", Obama's left hand man!) 132 John Arnold John Arnold $3 B 39 Houston, Texas hedge funds 132 John Catsimatidis John Catsimatidis $3 B 65 New York, New York oil, real estate, supermarkets 132 Charles Dolan & family Charles Dolan & family $3 B 86 Oyster Bay, New York cable television 132 Archie Aldis Emmerson Archie Aldis Emmerson $3 B 84 Redding, California timberland, lumber mills 132 Tamara Gustavson Tamara Gustavson $3 B 51 Malibu, California self storage 132 Pauline MacMillan Keinath Pauline MacMillan Keinath $3 B 79 St. Louis, Missouri Cargill Inc. 132 Whitney MacMillan Whitney MacMillan $3 B 84 Minneapolis, Minnesota Cargill Inc. 132 Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer $3 B 51 Rancho Santa Fe, California Cargill Inc. 132 Terrence Pegula Terrence Pegula $3 B 62 Boca Raton, Florida natural gas Jerry Speyer Jerry Speyer $3 B 73 New York, New York real estate 142 Riley Bechtel Riley Bechtel $2.9 B 61 San Francisco, California engineering, construction 142 Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Stephen Bechtel, Jr. $2.9 B 88 San Francisco, California engineering, construction 142 Doris Fisher Doris Fisher $2.9 B 82 San Francisco, California Gap 142 Victor Fung & family Victor Fung & family $2.9 B 67 Hong Kong trading company 142 Diane Hendricks Diane Hendricks $2.9 B 66 Afton, Wisconsin roofing 142 Kirk Kerkorian Kirk Kerkorian $2.9 B 96 Beverly Hills, California casinos, investments 142 David Shaw David Shaw $2.9 B 62 New York, New York hedge funds 142 Alfred Taubman Alfred Taubman $2.9 B 89 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan real estate 150 James Jannard James Jannard $2.8 B 64 San Juan Islands, Washington sunglasses Robert Bass Robert Bass $2.7 B 65 Fort Worth, Texas oil, investments 151 Edward DeBartolo, Jr. Edward DeBartolo, Jr. $2.7 B 66 Tampa, Florida shopping centers 151 Stanley Druckenmiller Stanley Druckenmiller $2.7 B 60 New York, New York hedge funds 151 Israel Englander Israel Englander $2.7 B 65 New York, New York hedge funds 151 Michael & Marian Ilitch & family Michael & Marian Ilitch & family $2.7 B 84 Bingham Farms, Michigan pizza 151 Martha Ingram & family Martha Ingram & family $2.7 B 78 Nashville, Tennessee book distribution, transportation 151 Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. $2.7 B 73 East Aurora, New York sports concessions 151 H. Fisk Johnson H. Fisk Johnson $2.7 B 55 Racine, Wisconsin SC Johnson & Sons 151 Imogene Powers Johnson Imogene Powers Johnson $2.7 B 83 Racine, Wisconsin SC Johnson & Sons 151 S. Curtis Johnson S. Curtis Johnson $2.7 B 58 Racine, Wisconsin SC Johnson & Sons Helen Johnson-Leipold Helen Johnson-Leipold $2.7 B 56 Racine, Wisconsin SC Johnson & Sons 151 Winnie Johnson-Marquart Winnie Johnson-Marquart $2.7 B 54 Virginia Beach, Virginia SC Johnson & Sons 151 Jerry Jones Jerry Jones $2.7 B 70 Dallas, Texas Dallas Cowboys 151 Bernard Marcus Bernard Marcus $2.7 B 84 Atlanta, Georgia Home Depot 151 Dustin Moskovitz Dustin Moskovitz $2.7 B 29 San Francisco, California Facebook 151 David Rockefeller, Sr. David Rockefeller, Sr. $2.7 B 98 Sleepy Hollow, New York Standard Oil, banking (Relative infested New York with UN...eternal curse!) 151 Warren Stephens Warren Stephens $2.7 B 56 Little Rock, Arkansas investment banking 151 Joan Tisch Joan Tisch $2.7 B 87 New York, New York diversified 151 Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey $2.7 B 59 N/A television (FINALLY!...we see "The Operah"!) 170 David Bonderman David Bonderman $2.6 B 70 Fort Worth, Texas leveraged buyouts Robert Holding Robert Holding $2.6 B - N/A oil, resorts 170 Amos Hostetter, Jr. Amos Hostetter, Jr. $2.6 B 76 Boston, Massachusetts cable television 170 Herbert Kohler, Jr. & family Herbert Kohler, Jr. & family $2.6 B 74 Kohler, Wisconsin plumbing fixtures 170 James Leprino James Leprino $2.6 B 75 Indian Hills, Colorado cheese 170 Rodney Lewis Rodney Lewis $2.6 B 59 San Antonio, Texas natural gas 170 Julian Robertson, Jr. Julian Robertson, Jr. $2.6 B 81 New York, New York hedge funds 170 David Sun David Sun $2.6 B 61 Irvine, California computer hardware 170 John Tu John Tu $2.6 B 72 Rolling Hills, California computer hardware 179 Peter Buck Peter Buck $2.5 B 82 Danbury, Connecticut Subway Restaurants 179 Fred DeLuca Fred DeLuca $2.5 B 65 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Subway Restaurants John Doerr John Doerr $2.5 B 62 Woodside, California venture capital 179 Tom Gores Tom Gores $2.5 B 49 Beverly Hills, California private equity 179 Timothy Headington Timothy Headington $2.5 B 63 Dallas, Texas oil & gas, investments 179 Shahid Khan Shahid Khan $2.5 B 63 Naples, Florida auto parts 179 Anthony Pritzker Anthony Pritzker $2.5 B 52 Los Angeles, California hotels, investments 179 Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker $2.5 B 48 Chicago, Illinois hotels, investments 179 Phillip Ruffin Phillip Ruffin $2.5 B 78 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, real estate 179 Ronda Stryker Ronda Stryker $2.5 B 59 Portage, Michigan medical technology 179 Steve Wynn Steve Wynn $2.5 B 71 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, hotels 190 Austen Cargill, II. Austen Cargill, II. $2.4 B 62 Livingston, Montana Cargill Inc. James Cargill, II. James Cargill, II. $2.4 B 64 Birchwood, Wisconsin Cargill Inc. 190 Jack Dangermond Jack Dangermond $2.4 B 68 Redlands, California mapping software 190 Ray Dolby Ray Dolby $2.4 B 80 San Francisco, California Dolby Laboratories 190 Phillip Frost Phillip Frost $2.4 B 76 Miami Beach, Florida pharmaceuticals 190 H. Wayne Huizenga H. Wayne Huizenga $2.4 B 75 Fort Lauderdale, Florida investments 190 Randal Kirk Randal Kirk $2.4 B 59 Belspring, Virginia pharmaceuticals (No...NOT that Captain Kirk!) 190 Marianne Liebmann Marianne Liebmann $2.4 B 60 Bozeman, Montana Cargill, Inc. 190 Mary Alice Dorrance Malone Mary Alice Dorrance Malone $2.4 B 63 Coatesville, Pennsylvania Campbell Soup 190 David Murdock David Murdock $2.4 B 90 Los Angeles, California Dole, real estate 190 Elon Musk Elon Musk $2.4 B 42 Los Angeles, California Tesla Motors(HMM...$5000 Volt or $5000 Tesla...Gimmie Tesla!) Robert Kraft Robert Kraft $2.3 B 72 Brookline, Massachusetts New England Patriots (NOT Tea Party Patriots...they are not rich!) 206 Michael Milken Michael Milken $2.3 B 67 Los Angeles, California investments 206 Daniel Och Daniel Och $2.3 B 52 Scarsdale, New York hedge funds 206 Isaac Perlmutter Isaac Perlmutter $2.3 B 70 Palm Beach, Florida Marvel 206 Richard Rainwater Richard Rainwater $2.3 B 69 Fort Worth, Texas real estate, energy, insurance 206 Wilbur Ross, Jr. Wilbur Ross, Jr. $2.3 B 75 Palm Beach, Florida investments 206 Kelcy Warren Kelcy Warren $2.3 B 57 Dallas, Texas pipelines 218 Marc Benioff Marc Benioff $2.2 B 48 San Francisco, California business software 218 Leon G. Cooperman Leon G. Cooperman $2.2 B 70 Short Hills, New Jersey hedge funds 218 Jeff Greene Jeff Greene $2.2 B 58 Palm Beach, Florida real estate, investments Henry Hillman Henry Hillman $2.2 B 94 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania investments 218 Min Kao Min Kao $2.2 B 64 Leawood, Kansas navigation equipment 218 George Lindemann & family George Lindemann & family $2.2 B 77 Palm Beach, Florida investments 218 Tor Peterson Tor Peterson $2.2 B 49 Zug, Switzerland Glencore International 218 Thomas Pritzker Thomas Pritzker $2.2 B 63 Chicago, Illinois hotels, investments 218 Stewart and Lynda Resnick Stewart and Lynda Resnick $2.2 B - Beverly Hills, California agriculture, water 218 Herbert Simon Herbert Simon $2.2 B 78 Indianapolis, Indiana real estate 218 William Wrigley, Jr. William Wrigley, Jr. $2.2 B 49 North Palm Beach, Florida chewing gum 229 Neil Bluhm Neil Bluhm $2.1 B 75 Chicago, Illinois real estate 229 James Coulter James Coulter $2.1 B 53 San Francisco, California leveraged buyouts Jim Davis & family Jim Davis & family $2.1 B 70 Newton, Massachusetts New Balance 229 David Duffield David Duffield $2.1 B 72 Blackhawk, California Business Software 229 Reid Hoffman Reid Hoffman $2.1 B 46 Palo Alto, California LinkedIn 229 Stanley Hubbard Stanley Hubbard $2.1 B 80 St. Paul, Minnesota DirecTV 229 Peter Kellogg Peter Kellogg $2.1 B 71 Short Hills, New Jersey investments 229 Walter Scott, Jr. Walter Scott, Jr. $2.1 B 82 Omaha, Nebraska construction, telecom 229 Albert Ueltschi Albert Ueltschi $2.1 B 96 N/A FlightSafety 229 Anita Zucker Anita Zucker $2.1 B 61 Charleston, South Carolina chemicals 239 Herbert Allen, Jr. & family Herbert Allen, Jr. & family $2 B 73 New York, New York investment banking 239 Edward Bass Edward Bass $2 B 68 Fort Worth, Texas oil, investments John Arrillaga John Arrillaga $1.9 B 76 Portola Valley, California real estate 250 William Conway, Jr. William Conway, Jr. $1.9 B 64 McLean, Virginia leveraged buyouts 250 Phoebe Hearst Cooke Phoebe Hearst Cooke $1.9 B 86 San Francisco, California Hearst Corp 250 Daniel D'Aniello Daniel D'Aniello $1.9 B 66 Vienna, Virginia leveraged buyouts 250 Bennett Dorrance Bennett Dorrance $1.9 B 67 Paradise Valley, Arizona Campbell Soup 250 Daniel Gilbert Daniel Gilbert $1.9 B 51 Franklin, Michigan Quicken Loans 250 Alec Gores Alec Gores $1.9 B 60 Beverly Hills, California private equity (No wonder Al Gore inspired for Global Warming Fraud Looting!) 250 Austin Hearst Austin Hearst $1.9 B 61 New York, New York Hearst Corp 250 David Hearst, Jr. David Hearst, Jr. $1.9 B 68 Los Angeles, California Hearst Corp 250 B. Wayne Hughes B. Wayne Hughes $1.9 B 80 Lexington, Kentucky self storage Michael Jaharis Michael Jaharis $1.9 B 85 New York, New York pharmaceuticals 250 Brad Kelley Brad Kelley $1.9 B 56 Franklin, Tennessee tobacco 250 Richard Marriott Richard Marriott $1.9 B 74 Potomac, Maryland hotels 250 Clayton Mathile Clayton Mathile $1.9 B 72 Brookville, Ohio pet food 250 Michael Moritz Michael Moritz $1.9 B 58 San Francisco, California venture capital 250 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker Jean (Gigi) Pritzker $1.9 B 51 Chicago, Illinois hotels, investments 250 David Rubenstein David Rubenstein $1.9 B 64 Bethesda, Maryland leveraged buyouts 250 Clemmie Spangler, Jr. Clemmie Spangler, Jr. $1.9 B 81 Charlotte, North Carolina investments 250 Donald Sterling Donald Sterling $1.9 B 77 Beverly Hills, California Real Estate 250 Romesh T. Wadhwani Romesh T. Wadhwani $1.9 B 66 Palo Alto, California Software S. Daniel Abraham S. Daniel Abraham $1.8 B 89 Palm Beach, Florida Slim-Fast (S is for what Abe is richer than...) 271 Sid Bass Sid Bass $1.8 B 70 Fort Worth, Texas oil, investments 271 Barry Diller Barry Diller $1.8 B 71 New York, New York IAC/InterActiveCorp 271 Ken Fisher Ken Fisher $1.8 B 62 Woodside, California Money management 271 Drayton McLane, Jr. Drayton McLane, Jr. $1.8 B 77 Temple, Texas Wal-Mart, logistics 271 Robert McNair Robert McNair $1.8 B 76 Houston, Texas energy, sports 271 John Pritzker John Pritzker $1.8 B 60 San Francisco, California hotels, investments 271 Penny Pritzker Penny Pritzker $1.8 B 54 Chicago, Illinois hotels, investments 271 Leandro Rizzuto Leandro Rizzuto $1.8 B 75 Sheridan, Wyoming consumer products 271 Henry Samueli Henry Samueli $1.8 B 58 Newport Beach, California semiconductors Thomas Siebel Thomas Siebel $1.8 B 60 Woodside, California business software 271 Frederick Smith Frederick Smith $1.8 B 69 Memphis, Tennessee FedEx 271 Dean White Dean White $1.8 B 90 Crown Point, Indiana billboards, hotels 284 Gerald J. Ford Gerald J. Ford $1.75 B 69 Dallas, Texas banking 285 Steve Case Steve Case $1.7 B 55 McLean, Virginia AOL (Where's my disk so I can join up?) 285 Glenn Dubin Glenn Dubin $1.7 B 56 New York, New York hedge funds 285 Judy Faulkner Judy Faulkner $1.7 B 69 Madison, Wisconsin health IT 285 Robert Fisher Robert Fisher $1.7 B 60 San Francisco, California Gap (Galloping American People) 285 William Fisher William Fisher $1.7 B 56 San Francisco, California Gap 285 Thomas Friedkin Thomas Friedkin $1.7 B 78 Houston, Texas Toyota distribution Tom Golisano Tom Golisano $1.6 B 71 Naples, Florida Payroll Services 298 Joshua Harris Joshua Harris $1.6 B 48 New York, New York private equity 298 Johnelle Hunt Johnelle Hunt $1.6 B 81 Fayetteville, Arkansas trucking 298 Jim Justice, II. Jim Justice, II. $1.6 B 62 Lewisburg, West Virginia coal (Lifeline of W.VA) 298 Kenneth Langone Kenneth Langone $1.6 B 77 Sands Point, New York investments 298 Gary Magness Gary Magness $1.6 B 59 Denver, Colorado cable, investments 298 Bill Marriott, Jr. Bill Marriott, Jr. $1.6 B 81 Potomac, Maryland hotels 298 Linda Pritzker Linda Pritzker $1.6 B 59 St. Ignatius, Montana hotels, investments 298 Stewart Rahr Stewart Rahr $1.6 B 67 New York, New York drug distribution 298 Kavitark Ram Shriram Kavitark Ram Shriram $1.6 B 56 Menlo Park, California Venture capital, Google Ron Baron Ron Baron $1.5 B 70 New York, New York money management (no Pizza) 311 Manoj Bhargava Manoj Bhargava $1.5 B 60 Farmington Hills, Michigan 5-Hour Energy 311 Arthur Blank Arthur Blank $1.5 B 70 Atlanta, Georgia Home Depot 311 Chase Coleman, III. Chase Coleman, III. $1.5 B 38 New York, New York hedge fund 311 Ray Davis Ray Davis $1.5 B 71 Dallas, Texas pipelines 311 John Henry John Henry $1.5 B 63 Boca Raton, Florida sports 311 James Irsay James Irsay $1.5 B 54 Carmel, Indiana Indianapolis Colts 311 Irwin Jacobs Irwin Jacobs $1.5 B 79 La Jolla, California Qualcomm 311 Joe Jamail, Jr. Joe Jamail, Jr. $1.5 B 87 Houston, Texas lawsuits 311 Thomas Kaplan Thomas Kaplan $1.5 B 50 New York, New York Investment Richard Hayne Richard Hayne $1.4 B 66 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Urban Outfitters 328 Bruce Karsh Bruce Karsh $1.4 B 57 Los Angeles, California private equity 328 Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla $1.4 B 58 Portola Valley, California venture capital 328 Alexander Knaster Alexander Knaster $1.4 B 54 London, United Kingdom oil, telecom, banking 328 Howard Marks Howard Marks $1.4 B 67 Los Angeles, California money management 328 Gary Michelson Gary Michelson $1.4 B 64 Los Angeles, California medical patents 328 Henry Ross Perot, Jr. Henry Ross Perot, Jr. $1.4 B 54 Dallas, Texas computer services, real estate 328 Michael Price Michael Price $1.4 B 61 Far Hills, New Jersey investments 328 Pat Stryker Pat Stryker $1.4 B 57 Fort Collins, Colorado medical technology 328 Peter Thiel Peter Thiel $1.4 B 45 San Francisco, California Paypal, Facebook Wilma Tisch Wilma Tisch $1.4 B 86 New York, New York diversified 328 Dan Wilks Dan Wilks $1.4 B 57 Cisco, Texas natural gas 328 Farris Wilks Farris Wilks $1.4 B 61 Cisco, Texas natural gas 328 Elaine Wynn Elaine Wynn $1.4 B 70 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, hotels 345 Christopher Goldsbury Christopher Goldsbury $1.35 B 70 San Antonio, Texas salsa 345 Kevin Plank Kevin Plank $1.35 B 41 Lutherville, Maryland Under Armour 347 Louis Bacon Louis Bacon $1.3 B 55 Long Island, New York hedge funds (Does he know Kevin? NAAAAA!) 347 Gary Burrell Gary Burrell $1.3 B 76 Spring Hill, Kansas navigation equipment 347 Robert Friedland Robert Friedland $1.3 B 63 Singapore, Singapore mining 347 Alan Gerry Alan Gerry $1.3 B 83 Liberty, New York cable television Marc Lasry Marc Lasry $1.3 B 52 New York, New York hedge funds 347 Daniel Loeb Daniel Loeb $1.3 B 51 New York, New York Hedge Funds 347 Billy Joe (Red) McCombs Billy Joe (Red) McCombs $1.3 B 85 San Antonio, Texas real estate, oil, cars 347 Henry Nicholas, III. Henry Nicholas, III. $1.3 B 53 Newport Coast, California semiconductors 347 Sean Parker Sean Parker $1.3 B 33 New York, New York Facebook 347 Richard Scaife Richard Scaife $1.3 B 81 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania investments 347 Thomas Secunda Thomas Secunda $1.3 B 59 Croton-on-Hudson, New York Bloomberg 347 Thomas Steyer Thomas Steyer $1.3 B 56 San Francisco, California hedge funds 359 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler $1.25 B 49 London, United Kingdom oil & gas, investments 360 Edmund Ansin Edmund Ansin $1.2 B 77 Miami Beach, Florida television Tom Benson Tom Benson $1.2 B 86 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Saints 360 John Brown John Brown $1.2 B 78 Portage, Michigan Stryker Corp. 360 Leon Charney Leon Charney $1.2 B 72 New York, New York Real estate 360 Richard Chilton Jr Richard Chilton Jr $1.2 B 55 Darien, Connecticut hedge funds 360 James Clark James Clark $1.2 B 69 Palm Beach, Florida Netscape 360 Christopher Cline Christopher Cline $1.2 B 55 North Palm Beach, Florida coal 360 David Einhorn David Einhorn $1.2 B 44 Westchester County, New York Hedge Fund 360 David Filo David Filo $1.2 B 47 Palo Alto, California Yahoo 360 Jimmy Haslam Jimmy Haslam $1.2 B 59 Knoxville, Tennessee retail 360 Sidney Kimmel Sidney Kimmel $1.2 B 85 New York, New York retail Stephen Mandel, Jr. Stephen Mandel, Jr. $1.2 B 57 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds 360 C. Dean Metropoulos C. Dean Metropoulos $1.2 B 67 Greenwich, Connecticut investments 360 Bruce Nordstrom Bruce Nordstrom $1.2 B 79 Seattle, Washington Retailing 360 Nelson Peltz Nelson Peltz $1.2 B 71 Bedford, New York investments 360 Jorge Perez Jorge Perez $1.2 B 64 Miami, Florida condos 360 Peter Peterson Peter Peterson $1.2 B 87 New York, New York Blackstone Group (Who is Ray Peterson?) 360 T. Boone Pickens T. Boone Pickens $1.2 B 85 Dallas, Texas oil & gas, investments (Wind power...) 360 Patrick Ryan Patrick Ryan $1.2 B 76 Winnetka, Illinois insurance 360 Bernard Saul, II. Bernard Saul, II. $1.2 B 81 Chevy Chase, Maryland banking, real estate 360 Mark Stevens Mark Stevens $1.2 B 53 Atherton, California venture capital Jon Stryker Jon Stryker $1.2 B 55 Kalamazoo, Michigan medical technology 360 Henry Swieca Henry Swieca $1.2 B 56 New York, New York hedge funds 360 Kenny Troutt Kenny Troutt $1.2 B 65 Dallas, Texas telecommunications 360 Todd Wagner Todd Wagner $1.2 B 53 Dallas, Texas online media 360 Charlotte Colket Weber Charlotte Colket Weber $1.2 B 70 Hobe Sound, Florida Campbell Soup 360 Graham Weston Graham Weston $1.2 B 49 New Braunfels, Texas web hosting 360 Jerry Yang Jerry Yang $1.2 B 44 Los Altos Hills, California Yahoo 388 Kenneth Adams, Jr. Kenneth Adams, Jr. $1.15 B 90 Houston, Texas Oil 388 Alexander Rovt Alexander Rovt $1.15 B 61 New York, New York fertilizer, real estate 388 Peter Sperling Peter Sperling $1.15 B 53 Phoenix, Arizona education (Probably U of Phoenix...) Neal Patterson Neal Patterson $1.12 B 63 Loch Lloyd, Missouri health IT 392 Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey $1.1 B 36 San Francisco, California technology startups 392 Mario Gabelli Mario Gabelli $1.1 B 71 Greenwich, Connecticut money management 392 George Joseph George Joseph $1.1 B 91 Los Angeles, California insurance 392 Peter Lewis Peter Lewis $1.1 B 79 Coconut Grove, Florida insurance 392 William Macaulay William Macaulay $1.1 B 68 Greenwich, Connecticut energy investments 392 Arturo Moreno Arturo Moreno $1.1 B 67 Phoenix, Arizona billboards 392 Paul Singer Paul Singer $1.1 B 68 New York, New York hedge funds 392 Dan Snyder Dan Snyder $1.1 B 48 Potomac, Maryland Washington Redskins 392 Denise York Denise York $1.1 B 62 Youngstown, Ohio real estate (See Mittens Romney is over-rated and over-hated!!! But best "give up-give in" campaign so far...better actor than McCain! 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Binswanger was interviewed by The Daily Ticker’s Aaron Task and Henry Blodget who questioned him about his controversial views. He also reiterated his opinion that anyone who earns more than $1 million a year deserves an exemption from paying taxes, a “symbolic gesture” he notes, because the “great achievers lifted us out of the cave and gave us our standard of living.”
These 1% are individuals like Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs.
Binswanger also proposes that the highest earner of the year, maybe an investment banker, hedge fund manager or CEO – could be given a Congressional Medal of Honor in return for his or her contribution to human life. Of course, if it happens to be George Soros, a golden spray-painted over-ripe tomato on a, Hope you see Muhammad soon!" piece of yellow pine would be a fitting award.
If millionaires do not pay taxes, do they still get the benefits of public assets, such as the military, firefighters, police officers, court of law and public schools? Certainly, without thier employment of millions, NOBODY would have any money to pay taxes. Of course, tax-dodging politicians giving speeches and writing books full of falsehoods should pay at least 12% as if they were earning below $30,000 annually like many Americans.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Mr. B did not mention sleezy anti-american billionaires like George Soros who donated major loot to Democrat Socialist causes and Van Jones projects. Soros made these donations also to DNC and his Brazilian Deep Sea Drilling oil investment got a loan from the US government for no apparent reason benefiting the USA of $2 Billion PLUS deep sea rigs dis-allowed in the Gulf of Mexico due to the Obama Moratorium on American drilling. These rigs will never return as it too expensive to move them back. The deep drilling oil rigs are in the Pacific Ocean benefiting Soros' investment apparently FOREVER.
A recent study reveals that the top 10% of earners in the U.S. had take-home pay of more than half the country’s total income in 2012. That's the highest level recorded since the government began collecting the data a century ago, according to a New York Times analysis.
Like liberal socialism, U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But it grew again in 2013, according to an analysis of IRS figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.
The study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty also found that the top 1% of earners enjoyed 95% of the income gains since the recession allegedly ended for people in red states. Meanwhile, incomes for the blue states stagnated from 2009 to 2011 and grew only about 1% in 2012 mostly because Democrats siphon off so much as corruption like heavy equipment rental on twelve under-manned road-work projects going simultaneously for no apparent reason but to "spread the misery" caused by traffic jams.
People as why have incomes for most Americans fallen behind or moved up a small percentage while those of the top earners escallated like a skyrocket?
Perhaps it is like that old adage that it takes money to make money.
“Excess capital that wealthy individuals and institutions had to invest...[during the crisis] has allowed them to accumulate even more wealth than others who didn’t have excess investment capital and are struggling in this economy,"
Prins is a senior fellow at the non-partisan, but liberal-left-leaning think tank Demos, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, and author of the upcoming All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power. Guys like George Soros who are politically connected to Obama, need not spectclate in real estate. They can make more money from foreign oil investments as Soros directly benefited from the BP Gulf Moratorium done by Obama. Mexico and even China kept drilling and possibly spilling.
She says wealthier Americans with savings or good credit were able to buy up foreclosed homes during the crisis at bargain basement prices and collect gains from the housing recovery that followed. Did the Democrats and ACORN set this up for themselves and the "fat cats" by forcing banks and lending institutions to make housing loans to people with insufficient collateral and income to make the payments?Did Congress assist those in charge at Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae to rake in huge undeserved bonuses on housing sold to people with insufficient collateral and income to make the payments? Those without extra money could not take advantage of those investment opportunities while struggling to just get by, or keep their homes out of foreclosure.
In essence, the well-to-do could better weather the crisis and capitalize on it.
The more affluent Americans have benefitted from “the recovery in the stock market due to cheap money,” as Prins describes it. The wealthiest 10% of rich families hold roughly 90% of the stock market, according to The New York Times.
Prins says most of the advantages that wealthy families have seen since the crisis happened are due to policies from Washington. That includes the Federal Reserve’s zero-percent interest rate policy and government subsidies for the banking system at its weakest point. Even the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (F.D.I.C.) was a government policy to back the banks and the Federal Reserve evoking and securing the confidence of the general public.
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The documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden revealing NSA's spy programs are still newsworthy. The newest scandal is about some prominent Americans who might have been spied on because of their race or religion.
The document refers to a legislatively enacted program called FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) that permits the U.S. government to secretly monitor people if it can prove to a judge that the person is participating in terrorism. The majority of the people being monitored were not U.S. citizens.
Later, in 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act (section 208) amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to increase the number of FIS Court judges from seven to eleven, "of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia." The membership of the Court in 2013 is drawn from US Circuit Courts hopefully omitting the 9th which is usually a "circus" rather than a Circuit. Reggie Barnett Walton is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and serves as the former Chief Presiding Judge. Two others are within the twenty mile circle stipulated which should eliminate the possibility of a 9th being possible.
Nevertheless, a few email accounts listed for surveillance did belong to Americans, including a political candidate and Navy veteran, civil-rights activists, academics and lawyers. All of the men have a Muslim background, but none have ever shown signs of supporting violence or terrorism.
One under email surveillance was Faisal Gill, who had served as a bureaucrat under President George W. Bush and even had secret security clearance. A Navy veteran, he had been a former candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates.
The FBI has been accused of racial or religious profiling of Muslims or persons of Irish ancestery before this instance.
According to FBI training materials uncovered by Wired in 2011, the FBI taught its agents to treat “mainstream” Muslims as supporters of terrorism, to view charitable donations by Muslims as “a funding mechanism for combat,” and to view Islam itself as a “Death Star” that must be destroyed if terrorism is to be contained. These are strong opinions verging on a "Trust but verify" sense and sensibility mentality. The FBI would be naive if it viewed “mainstream” Muslims as innocents, charitable donations by Muslims as assistance for the needy and starving and to view Islam itself as a harmless religion that must be tolerated because Muslims never try to take over host countries.
Of all under surveillance, 202 people on the monitoring list are labeled as "U.S. persons."
Under current law, the NSA may directly target a “U.S. person”, that is to say, an American citizen or legal permanent resident, for electronic surveillance only with a warrant approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
An alleged "leaked internal memo" used a slur as a placeholder for the name of the real target.
It would heve been very easy to fake this memo to put the FBI in a bad light. It is even possible that the FBI or NSA monitored the cell phone of Billionaire Sterling to paint him as a racist creating a wonderful distraction from several Obama scandals.
It is not easy to ascertain the criterior for how the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
decides if someone is a threat, due to understandable and appropriate secrecy. But, the success rate of gaining approval is very high as the court has approved over 35,000 surveillance requests in 35 years while denying only 12.
This Muslim snooping project is yet another reminder that email and other online communications are not completely secure from monitoring. Monitored persons MAY receive a notice from the government if selected for surveillance of online activity, but it is not very likely as that would tip off guilty parties.
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President Obama’s Kansas speech on or around
12/31/2013 calls for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them.
Obama addresses those who have criticized him for NOT cutting taxes, NOT cutting regulations strangling and holding back business, and those who resist his attempt to shut down coal as an energy source. Allowing Kentucky and West Virginia and other coal producing and using states to have even more coal power stations would break the recession and cause a boom. These things are the obvious solution but Obama wants Andrew Dice Pliven and Clive Caldren over-spending on social programs to throw America into chaos, rip the fabric of freedom and bring on collapse leading to socialism for the later communism he will rule for life over.
Obama: "There is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The market will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just cut more regulations and cut more taxes–especially for the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the winners do really well, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle down, well, that’s the price of liberty.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ’50s and ’60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.
Though not in Washington, I’m in that “certain crowd” that has been saying for decades that the market will take care of everything. It’s not really a crowd, it’s a tiny group of radicals–radicals for capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s well-turned phrase.
The only thing that the market doesn’t take care of is anti-market acts: acts that initiate physical force. That’s why we need government: to wield retaliatory force to defend individual rights.
Radicals for capitalism would, as the Declaration of Independence says, use government only “to secure these rights”–the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. (Yes, I added “property” in there–property rights are inseparable from the other three.)
That’s the free world capitalism political philosophy Obama has been blaming blame for the recent banking financial crisis and every other social problem. The problem with this rationale is that these " few radical capitalists in charge" have not been in charge since 2009 and have NOT been in charge at any time in the 100 years or so.
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Exactly 100 years ago a hugely anti-capitalist measure called the Federal Reserve System was the albatross hung about Lady Liberty's neck. Since that time, for over 100 years, government, not the free market, has controlled money and banking. This is the single causitive effect for the value of the dollar TO DECLINE since 1913? Is the 2014 dollar worth 2 cents of its 1913 value or only a PENNY? Reader, you be the judge and jury. How well did the dollar hold up over the 100 years before this government take-over of money and banking? Between 1813 and 1913. the dollar actually gained a bit of value.
"Leave the market be, leave it alone" or Laissez-faire was trumped by the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. That was the first of many government crimes against the free market.
Radical capitalists are deemed in their infancy of having a slight effect on the Right wing. The overwhelming majority on the Right are eclectic, which is a nice way of saying inconsistent.
The typical Republican Establishmentarian would never, ever say “the market will take care of everything.” He’d say, “the market will take care of most things, and for the other things, we need the regulatory-welfare state.”
Republican Establishmentarians are for the individual citizen – except when they are for control and laying-on-of-manipulation . They are against free markets and individualism not only when they agree with the Left that we must have antitrust laws and the Federal Reserve, but also when they demand immigration controls, government schools, regulatory agencies, Medicare, laws prohibiting abortion, Social Security, “public works” projects, the “social safety net,” laws against insider trading, banking regulation, and the whole system of fiat money.
Obama blames economic woes, some real some manufactured (“inequality”) on a philosophy and policy that was abandoned a century ago. What doesn’t exist is what he says didn’t work.
Obama absurdly suggests that timid, half-hearted, compromisers, like George W. Bush, installed laissez-faire capitalism–on the grounds that they tinkered with one or two regulations (Glass-Steagall) and marginal tax rates–while blanking out the fact that under the Bush administration, government spending ballooned, growing much faster than under Clinton, and 50,000 new regulations were added to the Federal Register.
The philosophy of individualism and the politics of laissez-faire would mean government spending of about one-tenth its present level. It would also mean an end to all regulatory agencies: no SEC, FDA, NLRB, FAA, OSHA, EPA, FTC, ATF, CFTC, FHA, FCC–to name just some of the better known of the 430 agencies listed in the federal register.
Even you, dear reader, are probably wondering how on earth anyone could challenge things like Social Security, government schools, and the FDA. But that’s not the point. The point is: these statist, anti-capitalist programs exist and have existed for about a century. The point is: Obama is pretending that the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society were repealed, so that he can blame the financial crisis on capitalism. He’s pretending that George Bush was George Washington.
We radical capitalists say that it was the regulatory-welfare state that imploded in 2008. You may disagree, but let’s argue that out, rather than engaging in the Big Lie that what failed was laissez-faire and individualism.
The question is: in the messy mixture of government controls and remnants of capitalism, which element caused the Great Depression and the recent financial crisis?
By raising that question, we uncover the fundamental: the meaning of capitalism and the meaning of government controls. Capitalism means freedom. Government means force.
Suddenly, the whole issue comes into focus: Obama is saying that freedom leads to poverty and force leads to wealth. He’s saying: “Look, we tried leaving you free to live your own life, and that didn’t work. You have to be forced, you have to have your earnings seized by the state, you have to work under our directions–under penalty of fines or imprisonment. You don’t deserve to be free.”
As a bit of ugly irony, this is precisely what former white slave-owners said after the Civil War: “The black man can’t handle freedom; we have to force him for his own good.” The innovation of the Left is to extend that viewpoint to all races.
Putting the issue as force vs. freedom shows how the shoe is on the other foot regarding what Obama said. Let me re-write it:
there is a certain crowd in Washington who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this economic challenge with the same old tune. “The government will take care of everything,” they tell us. If we just pile on even more regulations and raise taxes–especially on the wealthy–our economy will grow stronger. Sure, they say, there will be winners and losers. But if the losers are protected by more social programs and a higher minimum wage, if there is more Quantitative Easing by the Fed, then jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle up to everybody else. And, they argue, even if prosperity doesn’t trickle up, well, that’s the price of the social safety net.
Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our intellectuals’ collectivism and Paul Krugman’s skepticism about freedom. That’s in Harvard’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. (Laughter.) But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. (Applause.) It didn’t work when it was tried in the Soviet Union. It’s not what led to the incredible booms in India and China. And it didn’t work when Europe tried it during over the last decades. (Applause.) I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this statist theory.
How does that sound? That’s blaming an actual, existing condition–government controls and wealth-expropriation–not a condition that ended in the late 19th century.
So which is the path to prosperity and happiness–freedom or force? Remember that force is aimed at preventing you from acting on your rational judgment.
Obama’s real antagonist is Ayn Rand, who made the case that reason is man’s basic means of survival and coercion is anti-reason. Force initiated against free, innocent men is directed at stopping them from acting on their own thinking. It makes them, under threat of fines and imprisonment, act as the government demands rather than as they think their self-interest requires. That’s the whole point of threatening force: to make people act against their own judgment.
The radical, unbridled, laissez-faire capitalism that Obama pretends was in place in 2008 is exactly what morality demands. Because, as Ayn Rand wrote in 1961: “No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . To claim the right to initiate the use of physical force against another man–the right to compel his agreement by the threat of physical destruction–is to evict oneself automatically from the realm of rights, of morality and of the intellect.”
Obama and his fellow statists have indeed evicted themselves from that realm of rights. People FEAR Obama and what he can do to them via IRS, EPA and even the
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Chase Coleman, III. $1.5 B 38 New York, New York hedge fund 311 Ray Davis Ray Davis $1.5 B 71 Dallas, Texas pipelines 311 John Henry John Henry $1.5 B 63 Boca Raton, Florida sports 311 James Irsay James Irsay $1.5 B 54 Carmel, Indiana Indianapolis Colts 311 Irwin Jacobs Irwin Jacobs $1.5 B 79 La Jolla, California Qualcomm 311 Joe Jamail, Jr. Joe Jamail, Jr. $1.5 B 87 Houston, Texas lawsuits 311 Thomas Kaplan Thomas Kaplan $1.5 B 50 New York, New York Investment Richard Hayne Richard Hayne $1.4 B 66 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Urban Outfitters 328 Bruce Karsh Bruce Karsh $1.4 B 57 Los Angeles, California private equity 328 Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla $1.4 B 58 Portola Valley, California venture capital 328 Alexander Knaster Alexander Knaster $1.4 B 54 London, United Kingdom oil, telecom, banking 328 Howard Marks Howard Marks $1.4 B 67 Los Angeles, California money management 328 Gary Michelson Gary Michelson $1.4 B 64 Los Angeles, California medical patents 328 Henry Ross Perot, Jr. Henry Ross Perot, Jr. $1.4 B 54 Dallas, Texas computer services, real estate 328 Michael Price Michael Price $1.4 B 61 Far Hills, New Jersey investments 328 Pat Stryker Pat Stryker $1.4 B 57 Fort Collins, Colorado medical technology 328 Peter Thiel Peter Thiel $1.4 B 45 San Francisco, California Paypal, Facebook Wilma Tisch Wilma Tisch $1.4 B 86 New York, New York diversified 328 Dan Wilks Dan Wilks $1.4 B 57 Cisco, Texas natural gas 328 Farris Wilks Farris Wilks $1.4 B 61 Cisco, Texas natural gas 328 Elaine Wynn Elaine Wynn $1.4 B 70 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, hotels 345 Christopher Goldsbury Christopher Goldsbury $1.35 B 70 San Antonio, Texas salsa 345 Kevin Plank Kevin Plank $1.35 B 41 Lutherville, Maryland Under Armour 347 Louis Bacon Louis Bacon $1.3 B 55 Long Island, New York hedge funds (Does he know Kevin? NAAAAA!) 347 Gary Burrell Gary Burrell $1.3 B 76 Spring Hill, Kansas navigation equipment 347 Robert Friedland Robert Friedland $1.3 B 63 Singapore, Singapore mining 347 Alan Gerry Alan Gerry $1.3 B 83 Liberty, New York cable television Marc Lasry Marc Lasry $1.3 B 52 New York, New York hedge funds 347 Daniel Loeb Daniel Loeb $1.3 B 51 New York, New York Hedge Funds 347 Billy Joe (Red) McCombs Billy Joe (Red) McCombs $1.3 B 85 San Antonio, Texas real estate, oil, cars 347 Henry Nicholas, III. Henry Nicholas, III. $1.3 B 53 Newport Coast, California semiconductors 347 Sean Parker Sean Parker $1.3 B 33 New York, New York Facebook 347 Richard Scaife Richard Scaife $1.3 B 81 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania investments 347 Thomas Secunda Thomas Secunda $1.3 B 59 Croton-on-Hudson, New York Bloomberg 347 Thomas Steyer Thomas Steyer $1.3 B 56 San Francisco, California hedge funds 359 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler $1.25 B 49 London, United Kingdom oil & gas, investments 360 Edmund Ansin Edmund Ansin $1.2 B 77 Miami Beach, Florida television Tom Benson Tom Benson $1.2 B 86 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Saints 360 John Brown John Brown $1.2 B 78 Portage, Michigan Stryker Corp. 360 Leon Charney Leon Charney $1.2 B 72 New York, New York Real estate 360 Richard Chilton Jr Richard Chilton Jr $1.2 B 55 Darien, Connecticut hedge funds 360 James Clark James Clark $1.2 B 69 Palm Beach, Florida Netscape 360 Christopher Cline Christopher Cline $1.2 B 55 North Palm Beach, Florida coal 360 David Einhorn David Einhorn $1.2 B 44 Westchester County, New York Hedge Fund 360 David Filo David Filo $1.2 B 47 Palo Alto, California Yahoo 360 Jimmy Haslam Jimmy Haslam $1.2 B 59 Knoxville, Tennessee retail 360 Sidney Kimmel Sidney Kimmel $1.2 B 85 New York, New York retail Stephen Mandel, Jr. Stephen Mandel, Jr. $1.2 B 57 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds 360 C. Dean Metropoulos C. Dean Metropoulos $1.2 B 67 Greenwich, Connecticut investments 360 Bruce Nordstrom Bruce Nordstrom $1.2 B 79 Seattle, Washington Retailing 360 Nelson Peltz Nelson Peltz $1.2 B 71 Bedford, New York investments 360 Jorge Perez Jorge Perez $1.2 B 64 Miami, Florida condos 360 Peter Peterson Peter Peterson $1.2 B 87 New York, New York Blackstone Group (Who is Ray Peterson?) 360 T. Boone Pickens T. Boone Pickens $1.2 B 85 Dallas, Texas oil & gas, investments (Wind power...) 360 Patrick Ryan Patrick Ryan $1.2 B 76 Winnetka, Illinois insurance 360 Bernard Saul, II. Bernard Saul, II. $1.2 B 81 Chevy Chase, Maryland banking, real estate 360 Mark Stevens Mark Stevens $1.2 B 53 Atherton, California venture capital Jon Stryker Jon Stryker $1.2 B 55 Kalamazoo, Michigan medical technology 360 Henry Swieca Henry Swieca $1.2 B 56 New York, New York hedge funds 360 Kenny Troutt Kenny Troutt $1.2 B 65 Dallas, Texas telecommunications 360 Todd Wagner Todd Wagner $1.2 B 53 Dallas, Texas online media 360 Charlotte Colket Weber Charlotte Colket Weber $1.2 B 70 Hobe Sound, Florida Campbell Soup 360 Graham Weston Graham Weston $1.2 B 49 New Braunfels, Texas web hosting 360 Jerry Yang Jerry Yang $1.2 B 44 Los Altos Hills, California Yahoo 388 Kenneth Adams, Jr. Kenneth Adams, Jr. $1.15 B 90 Houston, Texas Oil 388 Alexander Rovt Alexander Rovt $1.15 B 61 New York, New York fertilizer, real estate 388 Peter Sperling Peter Sperling $1.15 B 53 Phoenix, Arizona education (Probably U of Phoenix...) Neal Patterson Neal Patterson $1.12 B 63 Loch Lloyd, Missouri health IT 392 Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey $1.1 B 36 San Francisco, California technology startups 392 Mario Gabelli Mario Gabelli $1.1 B 71 Greenwich, Connecticut money management 392 George Joseph George Joseph $1.1 B 91 Los Angeles, California insurance 392 Peter Lewis Peter Lewis $1.1 B 79 Coconut Grove, Florida insurance 392 William Macaulay William Macaulay $1.1 B 68 Greenwich, Connecticut energy investments 392 Arturo Moreno Arturo Moreno $1.1 B 67 Phoenix, Arizona billboards 392 Paul Singer Paul Singer $1.1 B 68 New York, New York hedge funds 392 Dan Snyder Dan Snyder $1.1 B 48 Potomac, Maryland Washington Redskins 392 Denise York Denise York $1.1 B 62 Youngstown, Ohio real estate (See Mittens Romney is over-rated and over-hated!!! But best "give up-give in" campaign so far...better actor than McCain! Romney 4th rate actor) http://jonjlear.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/usa-phds-not-problematic-due-to-education-system/ http://97problems.blogspot.com/
Thursday, July 21, 2011
DespicableDNC
Despicable is as despicable goes! The AARP has aligned itself with unpopular HEALTHCARE TYRANNY to the chagrin of many of its members. We send them protest letters which Association of Retired Persons ignores. Obviously they are in this FOR THE GOLD...and POWER.
AARP cares no one wit, what any "members" may oppose or WANT for that matter. We have QUIT AARP in droves but they have an ignorant/lacadaisical/apathy base that will stay in their rank and file forever.
People do not know or care if the AARP is in CAHOOTS as CRONIES backing ObamaCare no matter HOW BAD IT IS. Optomistic? Not really...AARP just wants to MAKE LOTS OF MONEY and HAVEA LOT OF INFLUENCE over older people, many of whom cannot see to READ about Obama's DEALS or EVEN KEEP UP WITH THE NEWS.
AARP wields a lot of POWER and INFLUENCE through its MAGAZINE which kindly people unwittingly READ to many older persons who cannot READ for themselves.
NOW TO "Despicable" in the NEWS!!!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/172427-rep-west-blasts-wasserman-schultz-as-despicable-in-email
Rep. West blasts Wasserman Schultz as 'despicable' in email
By Mike Lillis - 07/19/11 08:13 PM ET
Freshman GOP Rep. Alan West hammered away at fellow Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) on Tuesday in a biting personal attack in which he characterized the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman as "the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives,” according to various reports.
West was responding to remarks Wasserman Schulz directed toward him on the House floor Tuesday after he'd defended the Republican's "Cut, Cap and Balance" legislation. Democrats have argued that the bill, which would cap federal spending at 18 percent of GDP, would lead to steep cuts in Medicare and Social Security – programs benefiting many South Floridians like those in West's district.
“The gentleman from Florida. who represents thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, as do I, is supportive of this plan that would increase costs for Medicare beneficiaries – unbelievable from a member from South Florida,” Wasserman-Schultz said, without mentioning West’s name as she blatantly lied about him.
After Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) on Tuesday, 07/19/11 tried to trash his reputation telling lies, freshman GOP Rep. Alan West
wrote. “You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. (and that's singling her out from the other vermin she votes with)
If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!”
And he wasn’t done.
“From this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior,” West added. “You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!”
The flamingly informative email was also sent to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The subject line read: “Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz.”
Wait until Rep. Allan West gets attacked by Rep. John Conyers who apparently been despicable in the US House longer than West has been alive. Conyers is attempting to change the public’s perception of “ObamaCare,” (1) as health care feces although the term is seen by many Dems as glorified defication all over the nation as several have several brain cells functioning.
Governors in 10 states have signed laws that establish an insurance exchange which is a newly unconstitutional marketplace where individuals and small businesses will be forced unconstitutionally to buy more over-priced faulty insurance with "death panels" than they need.
“I think that a year ago, many of us who work with states would have predicted that more states would have passed legislation,” said Anne Gauthier, senior program director at the National Academy of State Health Policy. “Although exchanges are about as bipartisan an idea as perhaps exists in the health policy world … politics has played very heavily at the state level.”
Establishing an exchange is a mammoth undertaking, and states don’t have a lot of time to complete the task.
The exchanges must be up and running by 2014. But it’s in 2013 that the Health and Human Services Department will evaluate each state’s progress and determine where it needs to step in with a federally run “fallback.”
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the healthcare law, staunch political opposition to implementing it could ultimately give the federal government more unconstitutional power. (2)
It appears that 10 states are Democrat-infested/controlled and have "given up on the Supreme Court to do the right thing". Shame cubed on the SCOTUS. As in SHAME, SHAME SHAME!
(1) http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare
(2) http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/169761-states-lag-in-implementing-health-insurance-exchanges
AARP cares no one wit, what any "members" may oppose or WANT for that matter. We have QUIT AARP in droves but they have an ignorant/lacadaisical/apathy base that will stay in their rank and file forever.
People do not know or care if the AARP is in CAHOOTS as CRONIES backing ObamaCare no matter HOW BAD IT IS. Optomistic? Not really...AARP just wants to MAKE LOTS OF MONEY and HAVEA LOT OF INFLUENCE over older people, many of whom cannot see to READ about Obama's DEALS or EVEN KEEP UP WITH THE NEWS.
AARP wields a lot of POWER and INFLUENCE through its MAGAZINE which kindly people unwittingly READ to many older persons who cannot READ for themselves.
NOW TO "Despicable" in the NEWS!!!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/172427-rep-west-blasts-wasserman-schultz-as-despicable-in-email
Rep. West blasts Wasserman Schultz as 'despicable' in email
By Mike Lillis - 07/19/11 08:13 PM ET
Freshman GOP Rep. Alan West hammered away at fellow Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) on Tuesday in a biting personal attack in which he characterized the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman as "the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives,” according to various reports.
West was responding to remarks Wasserman Schulz directed toward him on the House floor Tuesday after he'd defended the Republican's "Cut, Cap and Balance" legislation. Democrats have argued that the bill, which would cap federal spending at 18 percent of GDP, would lead to steep cuts in Medicare and Social Security – programs benefiting many South Floridians like those in West's district.
“The gentleman from Florida. who represents thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, as do I, is supportive of this plan that would increase costs for Medicare beneficiaries – unbelievable from a member from South Florida,” Wasserman-Schultz said, without mentioning West’s name as she blatantly lied about him.
After Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) on Tuesday, 07/19/11 tried to trash his reputation telling lies, freshman GOP Rep. Alan West
wrote. “You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. (and that's singling her out from the other vermin she votes with)
If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face, otherwise, shut the heck up. Focus on your own congressional district!”
And he wasn’t done.
“From this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself forthright against your heinous characterless behavior,” West added. “You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!”
The flamingly informative email was also sent to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
The subject line read: “Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz.”
Wait until Rep. Allan West gets attacked by Rep. John Conyers who apparently been despicable in the US House longer than West has been alive. Conyers is attempting to change the public’s perception of “ObamaCare,” (1) as health care feces although the term is seen by many Dems as glorified defication all over the nation as several have several brain cells functioning.
Governors in 10 states have signed laws that establish an insurance exchange which is a newly unconstitutional marketplace where individuals and small businesses will be forced unconstitutionally to buy more over-priced faulty insurance with "death panels" than they need.
“I think that a year ago, many of us who work with states would have predicted that more states would have passed legislation,” said Anne Gauthier, senior program director at the National Academy of State Health Policy. “Although exchanges are about as bipartisan an idea as perhaps exists in the health policy world … politics has played very heavily at the state level.”
Establishing an exchange is a mammoth undertaking, and states don’t have a lot of time to complete the task.
The exchanges must be up and running by 2014. But it’s in 2013 that the Health and Human Services Department will evaluate each state’s progress and determine where it needs to step in with a federally run “fallback.”
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the healthcare law, staunch political opposition to implementing it could ultimately give the federal government more unconstitutional power. (2)
It appears that 10 states are Democrat-infested/controlled and have "given up on the Supreme Court to do the right thing". Shame cubed on the SCOTUS. As in SHAME, SHAME SHAME!
(1) http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare
(2) http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/169761-states-lag-in-implementing-health-insurance-exchanges
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