Forbes Rich List

Bill Gates tops the "Forbes Rich List" again as being the world's richest man. There are only 793 billionaires left on the list. -Oh those poor slobs who got kicked off the billionaire list this year; all 332 of them. Hmmm, what do you think happens to them now? Food stamps? Nah. Now, I have nothing against the rich (actually I wish I had a few as good friends), but I seriously doubt any are having any major problems. (Maybe exceot for the Madoff dude?)

Warren Buffet was number two on the Forbes rich list. Guess in the long run, the stock market still performs. He sneaked into the number one place last year to temporarily replace Gates as his shares soared to awesome highs. Poor fellow, now he has to settle for the number two spot again and he's looking at familiar site of Bill Gate's behind..

Wow, the U.S. still dominates the land of billionaires with 55 billionaires on the list!

You know, one billion is a hard number to conceive of how big it really is. Let's see if someone earns $50, 000 a year then it would take 20 years for them to earn a big million dollar bill. So how long would it take to earn a billion? Damn dude, it would take along time. It would take 20 thousand years long. Dude Jesus was born a little over 2,000 years ago. He would just be beginning to spend his fortune at $50,000 a year....This doesn't include interest. Big "Bill" has 40 times a billion. Can you imagine that? That's a lot of dough. Jesus plus his 12 disciples could all have spent a $1000 a day for the last 2000 years and still not have put a big dent in Bill Gates pile. Dude, I need a friend with that kind of bank roll.

This kind of money is awesome to contemplate! One of the really cool things about the two richest dudes, Bill and Warren, is that they are giving huge boat loads of their money to charity and other good causes! This is the other side of the story.

- The Other Side