Payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension

Please take the following poll with regard to the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension.

A call to those who have returned to work after a period of unemployment for time-utilization statistics

In an effort to make the information collected useful to its collectors, a call is made to those that had become unemployed during or after the height of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 after having been employed in the United States for any length of time and have returned to work force whether in the United States or abroad to take this poll.

Your response is greatly appreciated.

Plea to U.S. Billionaires to Help Reduce Unemployment

Billionaires – 1996 to 2010
Year (click on the link to get the list of billionaires for the year)	Number	Net Worth
		billion current US$	billion constant US$ (2005=100$)
1996	423	1,050	1,287
1997	224	1,010	1,216
1998	209	1,069	1,264
1999	298	1,271	1,486
2000	322	1,386	1,597
2001	538	1,729	1,950
2002	472	1,516	1,672
2003	476	1,403	1,523
2004	587	1,917	2,037
2005	691	2,236	2,311
2006	744	2,645	2,645
2007	946	3,452	3,343
2008	1,125	4,381	4,125
2009	793	2,415	2,273
2010	1011	3,568	3,289
Average annual growth	6.4%	9.1%	6.9%
Doubling time in years	11	8	10

Updated: 11/17/2010 03:30:37

Sources: see Forbes List of billionaires, World Bank Group statistics.

What motivates people to accumulate so much wealth when there is so much joblessness and hunger in the world?  And with a majority of world billionaires here in the United States, isn’t it time for our billionaires to step up to the plate and help reduce our unemployment rate that is stuck near double digits?

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