Bill Gates is Still the Richest Man in America with $66 Billion

[jabliese]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Bill gates was an expert programmer[/citation]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA, thanks for the laugh, Blazor. Bill Gates couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag. No doubt he made many contributions to the early days of computing, about half of which he should be smacked over.

 

[rosen380]

For all of the 'America' doesn't necessarily mean 'USA' talk-- Forbes has been producing the Forbes 400 'richest Americans' since 1982. If it has been 'wrong' for over 30 years, you'd think at least a couple of these people would have have brought it up to Forbes for correction, rather than the comments section on a tech website...

If Bill Gates took his $66B and split it up between the ~10M US households that are at or below the poverty line, he'd essentially be handing each one of them a check for $550 a month for a year. That'd be really nice and all, but does it really fix the problems that face the low income families? I'm guessing their bigger issues are high unemployment + lack of available jobs + lack of appropriate skills for high paying jobs. I'm not sure that $6600 in a year and then nothing beyond fixes that.

Even ignoring that most of the money isn't really available to hand out; it is tied into assets [houses, jets, cars], so you first need to find someone willing to pay the $20M value of Bill Gates' house [or whatever it's worth], to have that cash to hand out in the first place. A lot of it is probably in stocks and a major sell-off would be bad as well.

 

[rwpritchett]

iinlane:

Canada = Canadians
Mexico = Mexicans
USA = what do want.. United Statesians?? No. Citizens of USA are known worldwide as Americans. There's no confusion here.

To Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, you are the example others should follow. Hats off to you sirs.

 

[rosen380]

Well, I am fine with 'Americans' including everyone from Alaska to Brazil being American-- at least then those posts about 'how stupid Americans are' will feel less about me in particular But we have to be consistent with it.

The CFL has to be renamed the AFL, since they are Americans in America, not Canadians in Canada... might still be confusing though, since they have some different rules.

Since Football means something different outside of the US and Canada, that sport can't be referred to as 'American Football' since that will be confused with the Football the other Americans play south of Texas.

I'll be generous- the World can have soccer as 'Football', the United States get 'Football 2' and Canada will have to settle on Football 2*.

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom] net work of $66 billion[/citation]

You can network money now??

Lol, just kidding. But you should seriously consider ways to decrease typos in your articles

 

[Guest]

according to a new updated report of Forbes Bill Gates net worth is $66 billion in 2012. Having read this article, I am wondering whether the Bill Gates net worth is as high as what is reported by GetNetWorth website.
http://www.getnetworth.com/bill-gates-net-worth/

 

[billlawrence]

I am wondered that only three person have $153 billion dollars whle all world suffering from the poverty. I am surprised that Bill Gates Net Worth is as high as it reported by the GetNetWorth website.

 

[billlawrence]

Richest man in the United States of America...... is as high as it reported above and he is the richest man of USA from last 19 years row. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft software company. Such he is a nice person on the earth and donate a huge amount of his net worth for many charity programs.

 

[ChromeTusk]

Bil Gates, never ever again donate computers to libraries, they will just lock the computers down and only use them for search and limited internet! If you want to get poor kids learning computers build computer learning centers and staff them with one or two professionals and the rest College workstudy students. Inside the centers have the resources to teach electronics ( building computers from available parts) and software (all things programing) to A+ certification (software + hardware). Donating Full featured computers to libraries was a waste of a good computer!

A library might not need ALL the bells and whistles PCs can offer, but the many libraries are PUBLIC libraries. This is why the OS is locked down to help prevent problems such as zombie spam boxes, accidental trojan/spyware/virus/etc. installation, and inappropriate content for younger users.
The next question is how do you plan to fund the daily operations of your "computer learning centers"? How about helping renovate/reform schools and colleges so they can have these "computer learning centers"?