Posted on 10/24/2009 4:11:00 PM PDT by AJKauf
Every day we hear more news about the sad state of the U.S. economy. I know things are really bad, having read about the millions of people looking for work and personally knowing some who have been laid off over the past year. Last week I learned just how terrible it truly is in human terms, though, when Ted Turner revealed he is down to his last billion, or two, dropping to number 196 on the most recent Forbes 400 list.
There are thousands of stories across the country about Americans suffering the effects of layoffs, extended unemployment, and foreclosure. Recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show double-digit unemployment for many groups including teenagers and men over the age of twenty. The situation is bleak. It has to be if even billionaires are whining about their circumstances.
In an interview last week with Bloomberg News, Ted Turner, one of the richest men in America, echoed the mood of the country by saying he is really bummed that he has a mere couple billion dollars left. He discussed the pain of losing his job at Time Warner and control of the cable channel he founded, as well as losing his wife Jane Fonda and about $7 billion of his fortune. Turner said, It was like having my heart ripped out....
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Why???
He was married to this...?
As our pastor said on Sunday, if money is what you need to make you happy, there is no such thing as enough....
no.
prisoner6
I have nothing against Mr Turner. He earned his fortune. The only problem I have with him is his piss poor judgement in marrying a traitor.
Ted should stick to growing Buffalo for Ted’s Montana Grilles.
Poor TH-ang.
They deserve each other.
Years ago, he was one of the business people I looked up to most.

And this

prisoner6
Jane Fondle has always been a moron.
He’s been a traitor globalist himself more devastatingly than she.
He an alien Quix :)
Darn it! That’s the SECOND time this year I have been ordered to feel sorry for a liberal Dirtbag named TEDDY!
NOPE.
I doubt seriously this is true. Crooks are crooks.
I wouldn’t have minded being married to that for a few weeks.
Great bod.
But I'd prefer a third party to share a cigarette with and have a conversation...
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