The 400 Richest Americans

[Gothic Sponge]

http://www.forbes.com/2004/09/22/rl04land.html

Let's all celebrate their wealth! Yay for rich people!

:eyes:

[terrya]

1. Thank GOD those Waltons still have their money...

while destroying small businesses all across the country!

Yay! Let's here it for the new robber barons! Hooray!!!

[MrScorpio]

2. It's great to know that those Bush tax cuts really did their job

Too bad Forbes doesn't show how the other 99% of Americans have gotten poorer.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

3. Dammit, I just missed the list

Another $749,900,000 and I would have eeked out Norman Waitt Jr.

[Screaming Lord Bob]

4. Total tax burden for this list of individuals:

$11.89.

[dorktv]

5. *sponsers a bill that would increase the rich's taxes by

70%*

[DemoTex]

6. Glad to see CBS/Viacom magnate Sumner Redstone sittin' pretty.

The man who canceled last nights 60-Minutes on WMDs is #20 on the list with $8.1-billion. I wonder what else Sumner has been up to lately at CBS. They have been in the news rather a lot lately.

[dorktv]

7. I thought it was funny that George Lucas is rich because

of Star Wars.

[TXStacy]

8. not all people on the list are bad...

One of our own!

389 Kerry, Teresa F Heinz 750 66 Fox Chapel , PA inheritance

[Crankie Avalon]

9. Yeah...

...dang elitistal!

Why cain't he be a self-made man who came up the hard way--like I did.

Don't believe me? Well, daddy sez yer wrong, so there!