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Subject: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 03 Jul 07 - 06:41 PM MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the richest person on the planet, according to the Mexican financial website Sentido Comun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Ebbie Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:29 PM In 2006, Forbes listed him as #3 in the world. But as they say, making the first million is the hardest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Amos Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:34 PM I am not sure what the point is. I am sure there is a lot of dubious story behind his rise to fortune, just as there is behind Gates'. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Rapparee Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:44 PM I was wondering also. My immediate response was "So what?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:57 PM I'm reminded of the friend who was listed some years ago by Forbes magazine as the "ninth richest lawyer in the US." He confided discreetly that "they found about a third of it." Such rankings usually aren't too far off, but absolute accuracy is not necessarily absolutly assured. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: bobad Date: 03 Jul 07 - 09:05 PM What a thing to be fixated on - A has more than B, A's is bigger than B's - sick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Sorcha Date: 03 Jul 07 - 09:13 PM How do I sign up to be a Non Profit corp and get some handouts then? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Jul 07 - 09:41 PM Carlos Slim, huh? Well, if he ever loses all that money and decides to try to make it as a blues harmonica player, he won't have to go looking for a stage name. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: GUEST,Ed Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:05 PM The richest man in the world is a mexican of lebanese background. From Wikipedia: His father, Julián Slim Haddad Aglamaz, a Lebanese Christian from Jezzine, moved as a teenager to Mexico City in 1902. Julián established a dry goods store called La Estrella del Oriente (Star of the Orient) in 1911 and bought some prime real estate in the city center. Julián married the daughter of another prosperous Mexican merchant who had also emigrated from Lebanon. They had six children, of whom Carlos was the youngest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Sorcha Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:13 PM Well, my god, don't ya'll get the PROBLEM here? He is NOT a 'white man'...he is a (ssshhhh, don't tell) Mexican Arab! Now, we all know those people arent' supposed to be rich! They'll just fund terrorists! Said tongue FIRMLY in cheek. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Bill D Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:22 PM hmmmppff..if the Waltons didn't have to share among themselves, he'd have a ways to go.. (and if I'd developed my idea for hollow soap, to eliminate leftover chips, *I* might be on that list!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Peace Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:31 PM Sorry to burst the bubble, Bill, but hallowed soap has already been done. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Sorcha Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:32 PM ROF here, Peace! But, where are the Nuns? Are they ALL hiding at SINSULL's house? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Bill D Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:43 PM Hallowed soap? Is thatlike the scheme to freeze Holy Water with flavoring and make Popesicles? Or is that a form of hollow humor? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Sorcha Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:45 PM KAKSOD!!!!!!! (killed another keyboard spewing drink--thanks, LtS) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Peace Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:45 PM lol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Bill D Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:55 PM "Pope on a Rope" now I get it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: GUEST Date: 04 Jul 07 - 03:56 PM Notice that Slim is dominant in this family? His three sons Carlos Slim Domit, Marco Antonio Slim Domit Patrick Slim Domit. His father was Julián Slim Haddad Aglamaz (Not sure where Domit came from)? To Bill Gates, "Slim rules".
Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: John Hardly Date: 04 Jul 07 - 05:08 PM "hmmmppff..if the Waltons didn't have to share among themselves, he'd have a ways to go.." ...what, with Jim-Bob, John-Boy, Mary-Ellen, Hank-Bob, and Elisabeth-Bob. To their credit, they don't live ostentaciously -- minding their own quiet business up there on the mountain, only coming down to sell the occasional jug of "the recipe". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Bill D Date: 04 Jul 07 - 11:04 PM there's Waltons...and then there's **WALTONS** |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Geoff the Duck Date: 05 Jul 07 - 05:02 AM Richest man Mexican. Bugger! I'd hoped they might have let me be it! Oh well, back to the begging letters... Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Peace Date: 05 Jul 07 - 05:31 AM ". . . Slim's wealth is now equivalent to eight per cent of Mexico's GDP. Over half the population of Mexico survives on less than $5 a day." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: GUEST,the one Date: 05 Jul 07 - 11:49 AM AND SO IS THE POOREST!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 06 Jul 07 - 10:08 AM "...Richest man in the world is a Mexican..." Now illegal aliens can quit sending their paychecks home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: GUEST,Puck Date: 06 Jul 07 - 11:42 AM Rich people are nasty and untrustworthy by nature...thats just my view. You can please yourselves what you think!!! Pee |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 07 Jul 07 - 10:44 PM Yeah, I would agree with that. Rich people didn't get rich by being nice guys, though I suppose there are a few lottery winners. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: GUEST,pip Date: 08 Jul 07 - 06:47 AM There is many way to be rich, the least of thease, is money!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Donuel Date: 08 Jul 07 - 08:29 AM to a pic of Carlos Slim (who is obese) smoking a cigar... Smoke Carlos Slims. They're rich in flavor with a spark of Latin Passion blended with a heavy bravado of Lebanese extremeism. cough cough cough, they also are the first disposable cell phone cigar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 08 Jul 07 - 09:46 AM "...they also are the first disposable cell phone cigar." It sounds like something Q would construct for James Bond, or Maxwell Smart would use. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Donuel Date: 08 Jul 07 - 10:27 AM i pod i phone i cigar excuse me my cigar is buzzing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 09 Jul 07 - 08:20 AM '". . . Slim's wealth is now equivalent to eight per cent of Mexico's GDP. Over half the population of Mexico survives on less than $5 a day."' This is exactly what is wrong in Mexico, and the US is getting that way. But everytime a crisi develops in Mexico that could produce change, the US rushes in and supports the controlling elements, so nothing ever happens. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 09 Jul 07 - 08:58 AM Donuel, isn't that what Monica said? Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: JohnInKansas Date: 09 Jul 07 - 12:59 PM A few months ago: Mexico's richest chides fellow billionaires The Associated Press Updated: 6:08 p.m. CT March 13, 2007 MEXICO CITY - The world's third-richest man, Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, poked gentle fun at the philanthropy of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, saying businessmen can do more good by building solid companies than by "going around like Santa Claus" donating money. --- Slim showed himself as an unrepentant businessman driven by "the taste for competition." He said his own charitable foundations have $4 billion in endowments — but talked ironically about Buffet's decision to give away his fortune over the next 20 years. --- Gates, who set up the world's richest charity foundation, has said he believes "that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society." Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., agreed with that sentiment last year when he said he would send about $1.5 billion every year to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has an endowment of $33 billion. --- For Slim, business is a calling and the cure for most ills. For example, he proposed that the U.S. transfer large amounts of Medicare patients to huge hospitals that could be built in northern Mexico, where health care costs would be lower. True to his style, Slim seldom proposes a plan he does not have a business interest in — his construction company helps finance hospital projects. ... ... John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 09 Jul 07 - 09:57 PM "Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, poked gentle fun at the philanthropy of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, saying businessmen can do more good by building solid companies than by "going around like Santa Claus" donating money..." Slim has a point here. If people like Gates and Buffett had been paying a decent percentage of their incomes in taxes all of these years, instead of the Reagan/Bush/Bush cut rate of taxes, the people would be in charge of most of that money, and the world would be a much better place for it. Instead of Bill Gates announcing that he is spending "X" numbers of billions of dollars to do something that brings public attention to him, the money could be spent doing something really productive in the world. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Donuel Date: 10 Jul 07 - 11:09 AM Bill Gates was probably a Spider Man fanatic when he was 12. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: JohnInKansas Date: 10 Jul 07 - 05:14 PM Riginslinger - If all of Gates' fortune had been given to "the people" in taxes, then the ones who would be spending it (right now) would be Cheney and Bush. It's pretty easy to guess what "great good things" it would be doing. A show I saw recently on PBS (which could have been a rebroadcast from some time back) featured Gates and Buffet "discussing wealth" with what appeared to be a "college age crowd." Buffet stated quite emphatically: "I don't pay enough taxes. It's ridiculous how little I pay." He clearly expressed his opinion that the current policy of tax breaks for the super-rich is not a justifiable policy. Slim would apparently disagree, but Gates hasn't really expressed an opinion that I've heard. The Gates foundation is chartered to do exactly the thing that both government and business have refused to do. It looks for medicines and treatments for the "orphan diseases" that affect/kill large numbers of people but "aren't profitable" for drug companies to research. It's apparently had some very significant success. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 10 Jul 07 - 09:41 PM Kansas John - I'll take your word for it for now. I've haven't done enough research to rebutt. I've heard other wealthy people say the same thing about taxes that you quote Buffet as having said. I guess I'm just suspicious when one person has so much control, while there is so much that needs to be done. I would wonder, though, when the Gates foundation goes into Africa to do something about the spread of aids, how do they keep the money from falling into the hands of despicable politicians, just like Cheney and Bush, when they try to cure the problems? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: JohnInKansas Date: 10 Jul 07 - 11:16 PM Riginslinger: For a sort of "glossy outline" on Gates and a couple of others: DerSpiegel March 20, 2006 GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY The World's Conscience By Rüdiger Falksohn The best info I've seen on some of the Gates Foundation projects is unfortunately at "membership sites." (It is mostly "medical technology," with just a little politics tossed in.) I'll take a look at whether I can sort out some of the "more accessible" stuff, if it's of interest. Let me know here or by PM if you want more to look at and can't find it on your own. Note: It's not that I keep special track of billionares, but I do keep some notes on just about anybody I notice who could screw us, might screw us, has screwed us, or is big enough to influence the ones who do. It's sort of a hobby. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Richest man in the world is a Mexican From: Riginslinger Date: 11 Jul 07 - 10:34 AM John - I would agree. With what we already know of his business practices, Bill Gates is somebody who deserves a whole lot of watching. What doesn't really seem right to me is, all of these foundations are really running off on their own. They don't seem to be accountable to anybody. They are a lot like kings and barons. |
