Thursday, March 24, 2011

Ja Rule admits he failed to pay taxes, may get more jail time!

(OTRC) Ja Rule admitted on Tuesday, March 22, that he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income and could face more jail time.

The rapper and actor, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, is already set to begin a two-year prison sentence in early June after pleading guilty to attempted criminal criminal possession of a weapon.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 13 on three tax evasion charges and faces up to one year in prison and $100,000 in fines on each count, according to the Associated Press, which carried the report.

"S/o to the Feds very cooperative it's not tax evasion it's failure to file and I'm taking care of it case closed #WINNING lol..." Ja Rule said on his Twitter page, referencing a catchphrase recently made popular by Charlie Sheen.

Ja Rule earned the money between 2004 and 2006, the AP said, adding that if plea conditions are met, the government will dismiss two counts against him for unpaid taxes on $1 million he earned in 2007 and 2008.

Ja Ruler pleaded guilty at a New York court in December to attempted criminal criminal possession of a weapon. Police had said they found a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in his Maybach sports car in July 2007 following a concert in the city with Lil Wayne, who was detained separately.

In November, Lil Wayne completed an 8-month prison sentence after reaching a plea deal regarding the same case.

Ja Rule is known for songs such as "I'm Real" with Jennifer Lopez and his 2001 album "Pain is Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award. He has also has appeared in films such as "The Fast and the Furious" in 2001 and "Scary Movie 3" in 2003.

*WOW! This crazy and insane rapper thinks he's winning, but yet he failed to pay his taxes. How ridiculous is that! I don't understand why some people think that they can make millions and not pay their taxes and get away with it. That smells like "GREED" to me. It's no wonder most of society think rappers aren't serious business people about their business. If he he can't even pay his taxes then maybe he does need to go to jail. At the end of the day, just because you're famous and make millions doesn't mean you are exempt from uncle sam. "GET IT TOGETHER JA RULE."

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How to Make $1 Million Before You Graduate!

(Forbes) These entrepreneurs, interviewed by Forbes over the last three years, started launching businesses by the tender age of 9. Some of them identified problems and created companies to solve them, while others turned their hobbies into money-making ventures. Some teamed up with friends, parents and mentors; others plowed ahead on their own. To qualify for this round-up, the kids had to have cracked $1 million in revenue before college graduation and by age 22 (or be on track to do so), or had to have received funding that valued their operations at $1 million or more.



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In the summer of 2008, after his high school graduation, Jason Brian started working in the marketing department of a South Florida car dealership. He knew the future of marketing was on the Web. "With half of the money, I found that I could double the results," by buying online ads and using search engine optimization techniques, he recalls. Three years later, at age 21, Brian spent "less than $10,000" of his savings to build a website that would help consumers look for cars. Autocricket.com made money by selling customers' information to dealers and manufacturers, which could market to customers directly. Six months after launch the site attracted the attention of two entrepreneurs in Naples, Fla., who invested $250,000. The site generated $1.2 million in revenue in 2009, when Brian was 22. In 2010 it did $6 million.



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Showclix
In 2005, when he was 18, Joshua Dziabiak sold his first company--a Web hosting firm called Mediacatch--for north of $1 million. He bought a Mercedes (in cash) and a flat-screen TV, and used the rest to invest in other companies, including Showclix, his current venture, a website that lets performing arts centers, colleges, live music venues and other outlets sell tickets online, over the phone and at their box offices. In 2009 he raised nearly $1 million, which valued the company at $2.75 million. Showclix collects services fees (usually paid by the ticket buyer) of 7% to 15% of ticket sales. Those fees brought in $9 million last year.




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In 2002, when Milun Tesovic was 16, he started a music website as a hobby, compiling lyrics to his favorite songs. Two years later he decided to turn it into a company. Today Metrolyrics.com has a database of lyrics of 2 million songs; it licenses some of them, and others users post on the site for free. The company, now with 20 employees, makes money selling ads, and hit $1 million in revenue in 2007, when Tesovic was 21. Tesovic juggles work with classes at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, where he is a business major. "For me education isn't helping me find a career," he says. "It's more about growing myself."




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Twenty-year-old Daniel Gómez Iñiguez launched Solben, a company that designs and manufactures a press that extracts oil from plants to produce diesel fuel. Iñiguez began his R&D in high school. He sold to his first client for $150,000--$75,000 up front to help build the product, followed by $75,000 upon delivery. The Monterrey, Mexico, company brought in "a little over $1 million" in revenue during its first year of business. Today it employs 15 full-time staff; Iñiguez is entering his junior year of college.





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Glasses Direct
When 21-year-old university student Jamie Murray Wells attempted to buy a pair of prescription eyeglasses in 2004, he had a vision for a new type of business. Nonplussed by the $300 price tag, Wells decided to leave school and funnel his $2,000 student loan into what would become Glasses Direct, a London-based online retailer. In the first year the company's revenue topped $2 million.
Note: At the time of this writing, in 2010, the company pulled in $5 million in annual revenue, employed 70 people and had raked in $34 million in venture funding.


SuperJam
In 2002, at the age of 14, Fraser Doherty started making jams in his parents' kitchen in Edinburgh, Scotland. By age 16 Doherty left school to work on his jams full time. SuperJam's revenue hit $1.2 million in 2009.
Note: At the time of this writing, in 2010, Doherty remained the company's only full-time employee. Based on a reasonable valuation multiple of one time revenue (jelly maker J.M. Smucker traded between 1 and 1.5 times revenue), Doherty's debt-free stake was worth between $1 million and $2 million.


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Mydesktop.com
In 1996 Michael Furdyk, then 16, started MyDesktop.com, an online computer magazine, in the basement of his parents' home in suburban Toronto. His site was filled with tips and advice Furdyk gleaned in online chat rooms, where he came across fellow teenager Michael Hayman. Hayman, an Australian, moved to Toronto to help build the business. Running lean, the pair bartered for website storage space and office rent. Soon MyDesktop.com was bringing in $60,000 a month in ad revenue from blue-chip clients like Microsoft.
Note: In 1999 Furdyk, Hayman and a third partner sold the site to Internet.com for "over $1 million," Furdyk told Forbes in 2010.


*These are very interesting stories of people who decided to pursue their goals and become very successful. It's important to note, that in order to make your goals happen; hard work is key. Nothing comes easy and nothing is free. All in all, if you work hard, you can definitely play hard.*

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Wyclef Jean shot in Haiti!

(AP) Rapper Wyclef Jean, who campaigned last year to become president of Haiti, was shot in the Caribbean country on Saturday, reports the Associated Press.

Jean was shot in the hand late Saturday evening in Port-au-Prince, his publicist said Sunday. The rapper was treated in the hospital and released.

“He is doing well,” spokeswoman Cindy Tanenbaum told CNN, adding that the wound was superficial.

Tanenbaum didn’t provide details on why Jean was shot.

The Haitian hip-hop singer was visiting the nation to raise support for presidential candidate Michel Martelly.

According to Jean’s Twitter account, he is holding up fine.

We have spoken to Wyclef, he is ok,” Jean’s management wrote on his Twitter page. “Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.”

Jean, a solo artist, was born in Haiti and attempted to become leader of the country last year in the wake of the country’s devastating earthquake. In August, Jean filed papers to run in the nation’s presidential election, but was criticized by many for this decision.

Actor and political activist Sean Penn slammed Jean for seeking office.

“This is somebody who’s going to receive an enormous amount of support from the United States, and I have to say I’m very suspicious of it,” Penn said in August.

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler argued that Jean shouldn’t be eligible because the rapper hadn’t been living in
Haiti. Jean’s bid was ultimately rejected because he failed to meet the residency requirement which stipulated candidates must have lived in Haiti for five years prior to the Nov. 28 election.


*This is very interesting as Wyclef is rebounding from his failed bid for President of Haiti. It seems Wyclef is doing all he can to connect himself to Haiti. It may be possible he wants to run again; so having more of presence (putting his face in the place) strategy may be his way of saying that's he's not giving up on becoming President of Haiti in the future. In any event, him being shot isn't a good thing at all! Whoever shot him may not want him in Haiti at all.

Haiti has suffered enough due to the enormous earthquake that took place there. As the rebuilding process continues, hopefully people like Wyclef can keep the attention on Haiti and not just on themselves.*


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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Is Reality TV Hurting Our Kids?

(Parents.com) We all watched as that duct-tape enforced balloon drifted higher and higher, and now we all shake our heads with disapproval as more facts come out about the Heene parents, who had appeared with their kids on “Wife Swap” and were hoping to score another reality-show breakthrough. As 6-year-old Falcon Heene vomited during media interviews and then stated on CNN’s “Larry King Live” what appears to be the true crux of the ballooning story—“You guys said we did this for the show"—it became clear that his reality-show driven parents might actually be living in an alternate reality.

But there are ways you can keep your own kids from being impacted by reality television. As a psychotherapist and CEO of the Personal Growth Institute, a non-profit psychotherapy agency dedicated to helping individuals, couples, children, teens and families in Los Angeles, Dr. Foojan Zeine has some advice for how parents can keep their own children from being seduced by what they see on screen.

She says that parents need to teach kids the difference between “reality” and “entertainment,” because for today's kids the line has become so thin. Whether it’s “Jon & Kate Plus 8”/ “Kate Plus Eight” or “18 Kids and Counting,” “Nanny 911” or “SuperNanny,” “The Baby Borrowers” or “Toddlers & Tiaras,” each episode passes off these larger-than-life shows as true-to-life.

The problem that Dr. Zeine sees most frequently in her patients is a disconnect between their lives and the lives they see on television. That’s because reality shows have to have some kind of plot or excitement if they want to stay on the air, so the kids who star in them have to act up and practically become a caricature of themselves to make for interesting TV.

The kids who are at home viewing naturally compare the shows to their own lives, and often conclude that their day-to-day existence is pretty darn boring. They don’t see kids on TV having any downtime, so when they, themselves have free time they’re not even sure of what to do with it.

“It’s a lot of stress for the kids on TV, but also it’s a lot of stress for the people who are watching. Why? Because they also think, ‘My life is boring, and I’ve got to constantly come up with something else,’” says Dr. Zeine.

She says that one way to solve that problem is for parents to sit down and watch the reality show with their child. That way, they can discuss the ways that kids behave and what’s acceptable or not acceptable about what they’re seeing, along with what’s real and what’s likely staged for the purpose of plot. This kind of open communication not only helps kids better understand the line between real and entertainment, it can also help strengthen your own family relationship.


“You open a dialogue with your children and then do your own parenting piece at that moment. So you can take the reality show and make it into an educational piece for yourself."

It’s an easy enough solution for those of us on this side of the plasma screen, but what about the kids who are actually in the shows? Hopefully their parents have a decent therapist lined up. Because the children who have roles on the TV shows are in need of a reality check, says Dr. Zeine. Whereas child actors have always been likely candidates for the next “E! True Hollywood Story,” she says that because of excess stress and unrealistic expectations, child reality show stars could actually be in for an even more difficult future. 

“I think it’s worse for the reality show group because they don’t have to have any skills,” she says. “They get it that they don’t have to do anything, they just need to be on TV and be sensational. They have to exaggerate. They have to do something silly or weird just to get attention. So I think it’s almost like the difference of gambling and learning a skill to get better at.”

In the case of the Heene family, that gambling didn’t exactly lead to a jackpot. For the sake of Falcon and his brothers, let’s hope that they’ve been grounded by the experience, in more ways than one.


*Reality TV is an eye sore anyway you look at it. It's not real and does nothing to educate the population. In order to get high ratings, there must be huge dramatics, fighting, girls showing their ass and tits and a whirl-wind of antics. Someone please tell me if that's educational?

More than anything these days, parents are trying to escape their own reality of worry and tragedy. So, what you have these days are parents engaged in reality TV and many on reality TV.

They keep forgetting that kids watch more TV than they should and more are watching reality TV shows. The parents who don't care about reality TV, but let their kids engage in it, have to get on their parenting duties and turn the channel or turn it off completely and send their little asses outside or have them do something educational.

Keeping it real, we really can't say that reality TV is hurting our kids. It's the parents that let them watch it over and over on their watch. Heck; most parents watch it with their kids and they seem to think it's ok. At the end of the day, reality TV is not reality TV. Parents are the reality and that should be practiced daily so that kids don't get the wrong idea.


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Friday, March 18, 2011

Higher milk prices don't help dairy farmers much!

While milk prices continue to rise and exports to Asian markets have expanded, many dairy farmers are still struggling with the aftermath of several disastrous years and hoping the federal government will do something to help stabilize the industry.

After milk prices plunged and farms began going under, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said a year and a half ago that the industry needed restructuring and his department would look at its programs to see what changes could be made to help create more stability.

A committee the U.S. Department of Agriculture formed in 2009 in response to the crisis issued its recommendations this month, but no legislation has been written yet. Agriculture officials say it's forthcoming.

That's not a lot of comfort for farmers like Jamie Bledsoe of Riverdale, who saw his income drop by $2 million in 2009 and had to sell off about 300 cows to pay his bills. Many dairy farmers used up savings and sold property they had accumulated over 15 or 20 years, he said.

Now, they're being squeezed by high corn prices and an inability to get loans to buy feed for their cows. The situation is particularly bad in California, where most dairy farmers don't grow their own hay and corn.

Nearly 250 dairies in California have gone under in the past three years, and more are expected to close this year, said Michael Marsh, chief executive of Western United Dairymen. California is the nation's No. 1 milk producer, followed by Wisconsin and Idaho.

The crisis started when milk prices that had been driven up by demand in developing nations plummeted from a high of $18 per hundred pounds in 2008 to about $12 amid the recession in 2009. Farmers began slaughtering their cows to try to cut production. At one point, an average of 50,000 cows a week were being killed in an effort to reduce the milk glut.

This year, milk is expected to average about $17 per hundred pounds. But farmers aren't doing much better than before because federal subsidies for ethanol have created a big demand for corn among biofuel producers and prices have skyrocketed, said Ray Souza, a California farmer who serves on the USDA's
Dairy Industry Advisory Committee. About a third of the U.S. corn crop now feeds car engines, not cows, and Souza said feed accounts for about half of dairy farmers' expenses.

Tom Barcellos, who runs an 800-cow dairy in Tipton, said farmers used to be able to borrow against their herds to get money to buy feed, but the value of cows has slipped, making it hard to get credit. Many dairy farmers now have barely a truckload of feed left, he said.

"It's hand to mouth," he said. "They have no feed, they have used up equity, and they have to buy a load of feed at a time to try to hang on."

Dairy farmers are usually optimistic about bouncing back, he said. "But we never expected it would take this long to recover."

The dairy industry has been working on a plan to reform the nation's dairy policy, and many of its proposals were mirrored in the federal panel's recommendations.
Most significantly, the Dairy Industry Advisory Committee recommended replacing or improving the federal government's two traditional safety nets: the price support and Milk Income Loss Contract programs.

The price support program buys surplus dairy products to try to prevent a glut, but industry experts say its prices are too low to help farmers. The MILC program pays farmers directly but it doesn't cover all their losses, and it pays only on up to 3 million pounds of milk per year. That means it's of little help to large dairies such as those in California.

Instead, the committee has recommended helping farmers with feed costs by doing away with ethanol subsidies and creating an insurance program that would pay farmers when the difference between milk and feed prices becomes too small.

It also recommended creation of a growth-management program that would provide financial penalties for farmers who don't reduce production when demand drops; increasing incentive payments for good environmental practices; adopting measures to ensure dairies have access to a stable, legal immigrant labor force; and enhancing the nutritional value of the nation's milk to boost demand.

Differences in how policies affect the large dairies in the West and smaller ones in Wisconsin and New England have made it hard for farmers to agree on reforms.
 
But Bill Bruins, a dairyman and president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, said he thinks farmers are focused now on "proposing a policy that benefits everyone and allows us to become players on the world market, where most growth is."

The U.S. shipped $3.7 billion of dairy products overseas last year, 63 percent more than the previous year and almost as much as the $3.8 billion worth in 2008, according to the U.S. Dairy Export Council. Moving away from the traditional price support program and selling surplus to the government, which stifles innovation, would benefit everyone, Bruins said.


*What a hot "dairy" mess! With the price of milk going up and up these days, farmers still are struggling. It's sad because farming is very important. We need farms to produce milk, food, and those basic necessities that we as people use daily. What we don't need to use our farms for, are production of ethenol.  It's not a good look for farming because it doesn't say farming. There should be a program in place to help our farmers keep their heads above water, and not have to close up shop. There should be protection for them! After all they supply this nation with milk and food.

As for the price of milk, well, that's a "cat and mouse" game in itself. Everytime there's a crisis in another country America's food prices go up. I find that to be suspect totally. We have numerous people running the show and it has nothing to do with the price of oil; like they want us to continue to believe! It has to do crummy investors, big corporations, and the US government.  It's all close to home and it has been going on for years. At the end of the day, blaming Egypt or the crisis in Libya isn't going to cut it! We all know what's really happening!


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Thursday, March 17, 2011

CDC: Kidney transplant spread HIV from live donor!

(AP) A New York City patient was infected with the AIDS virus through a kidney transplant from a live donor, in what health officials are calling the first confirmed U.S. case since the 1980s.

The case is considered extremely rare, but some health officials noted that there is no strict policy for when live donors should be tested for the AIDS virus before a transplant.

In reporting the New York case on Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that organ donors have sophisticated tests for HIV within a week of surgery.

In this case, the male donor was tested for HIV about 10 weeks before he donated a kidney and the results were negative. Health officials believe he was infected between that test and the 2009 surgery; he reported having unprotected sex with another man during that time.

Neither the donor nor the recipient knew they had HIV until about a year after the transplant, according to the CDC report. No other details about the donor or recipient or their relationship were released.

Health officials say both are receiving HIV treatment.

"We don't know how frequently this is happening and we need better surveillance," said Dr. Matthew Kuehnert, a CDC official who co-authored the report.

At least one similar U.S. case has been reported in the media. An Orlando woman last year filed a lawsuit, saying she was infected with HIV through a 2007 kidney transplant in Florida. However, CDC officials say they have not been asked to investigate and could not confirm the report.

Italian doctors reported a case in 1989.

Living donors are routinely screened — as are organs from deceased donors — for HIV, hepatitis and other infectious diseases. Testing for HIV began in 1985.

Kidneys from live donors are becoming increasingly common. In 1988, about 32 percent of kidney transplants came from live donors. By last year, it was more than 46 percent, according to federal data.

The report is being published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.


*WOW! This will scare the mess out of people that really need a kidney! This is unbelievable! How is it that a  person goes in and gets a kidney from a live donor, and yet there is no policy for when the live donor should be tested for the AIDS virus before the transplant? Shouldn't they have a strict policy for testing live donors for the AIDS virus?  You would think there would be a test of this sort, due to everyday society.  The way we see it, society has messed up ways of going about things such as this, and with that, certain people get the short-end of the stick due to the mess-ups of society. WOW!

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Nate Dogg, whose hooks boosted rap hits, dies!

(AP) Singer Nate Dogg, whose near monotone crooning anchored some of rap's most seminal songs and helped define the sound of West coast hip-hop, has died at age 41.


















Attorney Mark Geragos said Nate Dogg, whose real name was Nathaniel D. Hale, died Tuesday of complications from multiple strokes.

Nate Dogg wasn't a rapper, but he was an integral figure in the genre: His deep voice wasn't particularly melodic, but it's tone — at times menacing, at times playful, yet always charming — provided just the just the right touch on hits including Warren G's "Regulate," 50 Cent's "21 Questions," Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" and countless others.

While Nate Dogg provided hooks for rappers from coast to coast, the Long Beach, Calif., native is best known for his contributions to the West Coast soundtrack provided by the likes of Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, the Dogg Pound and more. Nate Dogg was even part of a "supergroup" featuring Snoop Dogg and Warren G, called 213.

Nate Dogg also put out his own solo projects but was best known for his collaborations with others.

He had suffered strokes in recent years.


*RIP Nathaniel D. Hale "aka" Nate Dogg*

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Hollywood A-listers urge Obama to support gay marriage!

(The Ticket) Just weeks after the Obama administration announced it would no longer legally defend the Defense of Marriage act, some of the president's biggest Hollywood supporters have signed a letter urging him to go a step further and legalize same-sex marriage.

Anne Hathaway, Martin Sheen, Jane Lynch and Ellen DeGeneres are among the actors who have signed an open letter sponsored by Freedom to Marry, a New York-based advocacy group working to promote marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Citing Obama's decision on DOMA last month, the letter calls for Obama to exhibit similar leadership on same-sex marriage rights.

"Whether to end discrimination in marriage is a question America has faced before, and faces again today… It is a question that calls for clarity from the president," the letter reads. "We ask you to complete your journey and join us, and the majority of Americans, who support the freedom to marry."

The letter was also signed by NFL linebackers Scott Fujita of the Cleveland Browns and Brenden
Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens; entertainment moguls David Geffen and Bob Wright; former NAACP chairman Julian Bond; and Facebook co-founders Chris Hughes and Sean Parker. Hughes, who is openly gay, previously worked for Obama's campaign in 2008, heading up its enormously successful new-media efforts.

The letter comes as Obama prepares to launch his 2012 re-election campaign, in which he will no doubt count on entertainment types as an important source of financial and public support. But the president's relationship with Hollywood has noticeably cooled since 2008, as celebrities have openly expressed their discontent with Obama in part because of his position on same-sex marriage.

Just last month, Matt Damon railed on Obama in an interview with CNN, bluntly saying he has not done a good job as president. Meanwhile, Lynch, the openly gay star of "Glee," called Obama a "huge disappointment" for his handling of gay rights.

Obama has long said that he supports civil unions as an alternative to marriage for gays and lesbians—putting him to the right of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has endorsed same-sex marriage. But in

December, Obama admitted his views on gay marriage are "evolving" and said he would continue "to wrestle" with the issue.

Last month, the Justice Department dropped its attempts to defend the constitutionality of DOMA in court—with Attorney General Eric Holder saying in a statement that Obama had personally concluded the law was "unconstitutional." Many gay rights supporters view that position as an opening—though it's unclear how far Obama will be willing to go ahead of what could be a tough re-election campaign.


*It's obvious that the President is very busy with what he may deem as more important things. I think (hollywooder's) have to understand that just because they are famous, doesn't mean they get first dibs on the issues they care about. Bottom line; this is an issue and many people are on edge about gay rights and gay marriage as it stands. However; (hollywooder's), should realize that the President's job consist of addressing many issues, and not just one particular issue like "gay marriage.". At the end of the day, President Obama has to pick his battle and this obviously isn't one of them at the moment. All in all, "FALL BACK HOLLYWOODER'S and let the President do his job and you worry about doing yours.*


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Monday, March 14, 2011

U.S. millionaires say $7 million not enough to be rich!

(Reuters) A million dollars ain't what it used to be.

More than four out of ten American millionaires say they do not feel rich. Indeed many would need to have at least $7.5 million in order to feel they were truly rich, according to a Fidelity Investments survey.

Some 42 percent of the more than 1,000 millionaires surveyed by Fidelity said they did not feel wealthy.

Respondents had at least $1 million in investable assets, excluding any real estate or retirement accounts.

"Every person in the survey is wealthy," said Sanjiv Mirchandani, president of National Financial, a unit of Fidelity. "But they are still worried about outliving their assets."

The average age of respondents was 56 years old with a mean of $3.5 million of investable assets. The threshold for "rich" rose with age.

"They compare themselves to their peer group ... and they are also thinking about the long period they will have in retirement and want more assets" to fund their lifestyle, said Michael Durbin, president of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services.

Still, millionaires are slightly more optimistic now than they were in 2009, when 46 percent did not feel wealthy.

Respondents were also more optimistic about the U.S. economy. While they thought the current U.S. economy remained very weak, they think it will improve by the end of this year.

Fidelity noted the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans hold more than 55 percent of the nation's wealth.


*Well, well now this is really something! This article is dead on as many millionaires don't feel rich. Many are blowing through their money like water. As the economy stays in a weak state, many people are feeling the pinch. Everyday necessities are going up in price, and people are spending more to live. However, if your sitting on cash and don't have to worry about eating, then I say you are rich. You're rich in being blessed where, others are scraping their piggy banks to eat everyday. In this day and age the fact that you have money, should be a blessing instead of complaining that it's not enough.*


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