Adding up Bill Gates' billions
Forbes reports that Bill Gates' net worth has increased to $50 billion.
Once it was a big deal to be a millionaire.
Gates is a millionaire times 50,000.
Can you get your mind around that? It boggles mine.
Gates and his wife, Melinda, give away a lot of money.
They could give away 99.9998 percent of their wealth -- or $49,999,000,000 -- and still have a million dollars.
With $50 billion, you could buy a half-million homes worth $100,000 each.
You could send 1,250,000 kids to college for four years at $10,000 a year each ... or one kid at that rate for 5 million years.
You could buy 2.5 million cars at $20,000 each.
Run North Carolina's state government for about three years.
Or pay off about 0.6 percent of our national debt.
Oh, man. The national debt. Now that's some real money.
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