. . UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : UNITED STATES: POLITICS : ECONOMICS: Don't Worry About Our Billionaires . . Don't Worry About Our Billionaires 7:05 PM, Aug. 1, 2011 Des Moines Registerhttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110802/OPINION04/308020013/ -1/gallery_array/Don-t-worry-about-our-billionaires
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/3wrqnff . .Billionaires will gain even more power if the U.S. defaults on its deficit payments, sending our country and the world into a funk worse than October 2008. According to Forbes, the assembled net worth of the wealthiest 400 U.S. billionaires was up $1.37 trillion last year. Our billionaires continue to prosper while the rest of the country continues to struggle.
.Charles and David Koch had a combined net worth last year of $44 billion. If the U.S. defaults and we all loose 30 percent of our wealth, the Koch brothers will still have $31 billion. With that amount of wealth, they realistically wont even participate in the effects of another economic depression.
. snip .Thats right, they can spend $480 million on Republican Congressmen and the Tea Party and they will still have a combined wealth of $43.5 billion!
.During the October 2008 economic meltdown, the world lost $50 trillion of its wealth. The main goal of the Koch brothers is they want President Barack Obama out in 2012 and their candidate in. Another catastrophic economic collapse will assure them of their goal and only make them more powerful and influential than ever.
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