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reminds me of Cheney during the VP debates, when he declared his wealth was
not the product of government favors.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/Gulf-War/desert-stor
m/07

(good time to refresh our memories re iraq . . .)

starting a debate on govt. contracts,
gg

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Owen Byrne wrote:

> R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>
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>>
>> At 10:32 AM -0400 on 9/21/02, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Cool --- I wasn't aware that the US had lifted it's population out
>>> of poverty! When did this happen? I wonder where the media gets the
>>> idea that the wealth gap is widening and deepening...
>>>
>>
>>
>> All the world loves a smartass...
>>
>> :-).
>>
>> Seriously. Look at he life expectancy and human carrying capacity of
>> this continent before the Europeans got here. Look at it now. Even
>> for descendants of the original inhabitants. Even for the descendents
>> of slaves, who were brought here by force.
>>
>> More stuff, cheaper. That's progress.
>>
>> Poverty, of course, is not relative. It's absolute. Disparity in
>> wealth has nothing to do with it.
>>
>> It's like saying that groups have rights, when, in truth, only
>> individuals do. Like group rights, "disparity" in wealth is
>> statistical sophistry.
>>
>>
>> Besides, even if you can't help the distribution, industrial wealth
>> is almost always transitory, and so is relative poverty, even when
>> there are no confiscatory death-taxes. The 20th anniversary Forbes
>> 400 just came out, and only a few tens of people are still there
>> since 1982, a time which had significantly higher marginal taxes on
>> wealth, income, and inheritance than we do now. More to the point,
>> they're nowhere near the top.
>>
>>
Lovely quote from the Forbes 400 list:
"and not a single Astor, Vanderbilt or Morgan rates a mention on the
current Forbes Four Hundred. "

But you have to studiously ignore the 4 Rockefellers, 3 Gettys, 3
Hearsts,  Fords, Kelloggs, Wrigleys,
and so on.

There are more self-made people on the list than I previously alluded to
- I made a mistake. Most
of them seem to have Ivy League educations, or are Ivy League dropouts,
suggesting to me that they weren't
exactly poor to start with. Some of them have lovely self-made stories
like:
#347, Johnston, Summerfield K Jr
track this personTrack This Person
<http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/add_person.jhtml?successURL=%2Fpeopletr
acker%2Fprotected%2Frich_tracker.jhtml&errorURL=%2Fpeopletracker%2Ferror.jht
ml&personId=221899>

 | See all Bacon Makers
<http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=54&passYear=2002&passL
istType=Person&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=%2Bnum
berfield1%2C%2Bstringfield1&resultsSortCategoryName=rank&searchParameter1=10
Str%7C%7CPatCS%7C%7CBacon+Makers&category1=Magazine+Section&category2=catego
ry&searchParameter2=unset>


70 , self made
*Source: Food
<http://www.forbes.com/lists/results.jhtml?passListId=54&passYear=2002&passL
istType=Person&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=%2Bnum
berfield1%2C%2Bstringfield1&resultsSortCategoryName=rank&searchParameter1=5S
tr%7C%7CPatCS%7C%7CFood&category1=Industry>,
Coca-Cola* (quote
<http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/CompanyTearsheet.jhtml?
tkr=CCE>,
executives
<http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=C
CE>,
news <http://markets2.forbes.com/rpt/Company_News.asp?Symbol=CCE>)

Net Worth: *$680 mil* returnee
Hometown: Chattanooga , TN

*Marital Status:* married , 5 children


Grandfather James and partner landed first Coca-Cola bottling franchise
in 1899. Company passed down 3 generations to Summerfield 1950s. Became
largest independent Coke bottler. Merged with Coca-Cola Enterprises 1991.

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(...by a compensation committee)
Owen








