Forbes came out with thier new list of the worlds richest people today. 793 billionaires in the world, that's a 15% growth over the past year. In the US we have 371 of those billionaires and Texas lays claim to 33 of those people, including two of the top 20. In Houston alone thier are seven billioniares.
As I mention all this I also want to say that almost 3 billion people live on $2 Dollars a day. Half of the worlds children live in poverty. "The combined wealth of the world’s 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; the combined incomes of the 582 million people living in the 43 least developed countries is $146 billion." (see here for a list of other poverty/wealth realted facts).
I'm not a huge "save the children" kind of person, but when I heard about Forbes new list on the radio this morning it just made me wonder what we could do with the combined $2,600,000,000,000 ($2.6 trillion) of the list.
