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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (304647)5/11/2009 5:04:25 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) of 793917
 
No BaldEagle...I have the correct numbers for Gates and Allen...See Forbes list of 400 Richest Americans in 2008...They are all worth even less today after the Stock Market fall of this year. I said Gates and Allen....They only total $73 Billion! Also note that if you take ALL the money that the Forbes 400 have, you would still have Obama's budget for this next year MORE than the wealthiest Americans by several tens of trillion dollars....They are worth $1.57 trillion (end of 2008) vs Obama's budget deficit of $1.8 TRILLION for 2010.

The Forbes 400
Edited by Matthew Miller and Duncan Greenberg, 09.17.08, 06:00 PM EDT
Our annual listing of America's very richest.

The rich haven't gotten richer--or poorer--this year. For the second year in a row, the price of admission to The Forbes 400 is $1.3 billion. In this, the 27th edition of the list, the assembled net worth of America's wealthiest rose by $30 billion--only 2%--to $1.57 trillion. More ......

forbes.com

The 20 Richest Americans
1. William Gates III - $57.0 Billion – down from year before
2. Warren Buffett - $50.0 Billion – down from the year before
3. Lawrence Ellison
4. Jim Walton
5. S Robson Walton
6. Alice Walton
7. Christy Walton & Family
8. Michael Bloomberg
9. Charles Koch
10. David Koch
11. Michael Dell
12. Paul Allen ---$16Billion – down from year before
13. Sergey Brin
14. Larry Page
15. Sheldon Adelson
16. Steven Ballmer
17. Abigail Johnson
18. Jack Taylor & Family
19. Anne Cox Chambers
20. Donald Bren
21. Complete List

To: KLP who wrote (304645) 5/11/2009 4:40:58 PM
From: Bald Eagle Respond to of 304647

You are wrong about Gates and Paul Allen, they have many Billions between them, much more than a hundred million.


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