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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (207701)	6/21/2009 8:00:25 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 306849

you are right about that. how about a wealthy executive with 2 yachts over 150 feet, each with helicopters and french chefs in different parts of the globe who expresses jealousy and angst every time a 300 footer motors by?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (207701)	6/21/2009 8:15:44 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 306849

Ultimately, I decided to commit $1 billion to the Peter G. Peterson foundation—the vast majority of my net proceeds from Blackstone. Why so much? Kurt Vonnegut once told a story about seeing Joseph Heller at a wealthy hedge-fund manager's party at a beach house in the Hamptons. Casting his eye around the luxurious setting, Vonnegut said, "Joe, doesn't it bother you that this guy makes more in a day than you ever made from Catch-22?" "No, not really," Heller said. "I have something that he doesn't have: I know the meaning of enough." I have far more than enough. Peterson's memoir, The Education Of An American Dreamer, will be published by Twelve this month.