From Forbes Magazine....(via MSNBC)
".....This 25th year of tracking global wealth was one to remember. The 2011 Billionaires List breaks two records: total number of listees (1,210) and combined wealth ($4.5 trillion). This horde surpasses the gross domestic product of Germany, one of only six nations to have fewer billionaires this year. BRICs led the way: Brazil, Russia, India and China produced 108 of the 214 new names. These four nations are home to one in four members, up from one in ten five years ago. Before this year only the U.S. had ever produced more than 100 billionaires. China now has 115 and Russia 101."Think about those figures for a moment, if you can. I realize we've become almost immune to shock when it comes to money. Who has it, who stole it, how much they've amassed. Wild numbers are flung about so freely, we barely notice anymore. Even my 'envy level' has wained substantially.
It used to make me angry and, yes, envious of these people who no longer- if they ever- had to look at price tags or wrangle with a loosing home budget. But I got over this. That's really another story altogether, and not easily told. But just in case you need a visual stimulus to really bring out the meaning of a number, try this on for size.....
$4,500,000,000,000.00.
See? That's four and half trillion dollars, in numbers. And this is how much chingas is in the wallets of just over 1200 individuals around the world. One thousand two hundred people are worth 4.5 trillion dollars. And the alleged "Richest Person in the World," Carlos Sim, this past year added $20,000,000,000- 20 billion dollars to his fortune to total $74 billion bucks. That's alotta pesos! Carlos Sim Helu is the telecom mogul from Mexico.
Yeah that's alotta bread, I gotta admit. But while these little surveys that surface every year ranking the wealth of the "visible wealthy," I feel very confident in stating these people, Sim, Gates, Buffett, et al, are just play candy for a gullible and uninformed public across the planet.
It's been estimated the "Rothschild's" collectively are hoarding upwards of 500 trillion dollars, much in gold. Much more in the equity of their slaves- The Human Race. Honestly, it's all over but the reckoning, and that's a-comin'.
What's 4.5 Trillion Dollars look like? Well, to give you proper perspective, let's start out looking at only ONE BILLION dollars stacked.
Now this is a billion bucks. Nice, huh? Okay, now let's look at what only 1 trillion dollars looks like stacked.
Do you see that little guy standing at the far left? He's the same guy standing next to the one billion dollars above. This is what just ONE trillion dollars looks like. Notice these are 'double-stacked!!' In the interest of space and non-redundancy, I'll just ask you to try and visualize the above pile of cash- with three and a half MORE just like it stacked on top!
And this folks is what just over 1,200 individuals have in wealth. Twelve hundred and ten people. And that's just the "Billionaires!"
