[Gibble]

The number of millionares is rising rather quickly. Worldwide there are approximately 8.7million millionares. That's approximately 1.3 per 1000 people. This is nearly double the 4.5million in 1996.

Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060620/dubai...lionaires.html

[linskyjack]

Wow--and the poverty rate in this country is going up!!!!!!!!!!!! Fact is, the US has the worst poverty rate and percentage of those without health insurance in the world's industrialized nations---Bravo to the Bush Millionaires!

[LANMaster]

This is great news.
I hope to join them someday!

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

This is great news.
I hope to join them someday!

The poverty stricken?

[wateva]

Originally Posted by Gibble

The number of millionares is rising rather quickly. Worldwide there are approximately 8.7million millionares. That's approximately 1.3 per 1000 people. This is nearly double the 4.5million in 1996.

Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060620/dubai...lionaires.html

And you seem to be happy about this because......?

[linskyjack]

He's happy because he has a fantasy about being a millionaire and getting lots of girls!

[Gibble]

Because people keep claiming that it's hard to become a millionare, that money is in the hands of fewer and fewer people...and that's simply, NOT TRUE.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by wateva

And you seem to be happy about this because......?

When was the last time a poor person offered you a high paying job?

(assuming you have some education and/or talent and/or positive attitude and/or respectability and/or dependability)

[help4me]

Hey...I am already working on my second million .....course I couldn't get the first million

[Gibble]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

When was the last time a poor person offered you a high paying job?

(assuming you have some education and/or talent and/or positive attitude and/or respectability and/or dependability)

Well, technically, poor people have offered me work, but for some reason they expect me to work for free, they figure because I make a fair amount and my current job(s) that I can afford to work for free...annoyingly, if you offer them a trade, their labour for my labour, they decline.

[sy2]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

When was the last time a poor person offered you a high paying job?

For real! Why can't people grasp that it takes millionaires and/or high earners to start businesses and stimiulate growth/the economy? You've got to spend money to make money, and you need to HAVE money to spend money - but god forbid some people make more cash than everyone else!

[WarC]

Congress just voted itself another pay raise last week. It's done so every year for the last decade.

Funny how Congress understands the concept of inflation and the cost of living, yet raising the minimum wage is still a huge issue (and it would destroy the economy!)

This was the most important thing I learned in social studies: "The purpose of Government is to protect the ruling class."

Touche!

*flips off the G-men*

[Lurker1]

I think this part of the article explains it. Gas at three dollars per gallon.

"The red-hot Middle East saw nearly 10 percent growth in millionaires -- the world's fastest rate -- with record oil revenues and soaring stock markets pushing 300,000 people over the million-dollar mark."

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by WarC

Congress just voted itself another pay raise last week. It's done so every year for the last decade.

Funny how Congress understands the concept of inflation and the cost of living, yet raising the minimum wage is still a huge issue (and it would destroy the economy!)

This was the most important thing I learned in social studies: "The purpose of Government is to protect the ruling class."

Touche!

*flips off the G-men*

You're getting it WC!

[Lurker1]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

When was the last time a poor person offered you a high paying job?

When was the last time a rich person offered you a high paying job?????