Filipino Billionaires..Do you know..Thay are not really Filipinos...diputS

[sgrnim]

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Filipino Billionaires

March 2002. Fellow countrymen, be proud. While most of us may be poor, with total net worth of a little more than what we wear right now, there are reasons to be proud of. Even though many of us are not privileged enough to own a house, a lot or a car, there is something in Filipinos that we can brag about. Well, we may not be a part of it but other Filipinos, and only a few of them, just give our nation an image of prosperity.

The country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita income may be less than US$1,000, but four of over 80 million Filipinos are getting a larger share of the pie. In fact, they are included in Forbes Magazines' latest list of 497 world billionaires (in US dollars). Bravo!

Ironically, Finland and Austria where per capita income is more than US$24,000 has no representative in the billionaires' circle.

Filipinos in the billionaires' list are Lucio Tan, with a net worth of US$1.7 billion; Henry Sy, US$1.5 billion; George Ty, US$1.1 billion; and Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala and family, US$1 billion. Their combined wealth amount to about US$5.3 billion or almost 7 percent of the country's GDP of US$75.2 billion last year.

The first three billionaires were immigrants from China while Ayala is a scion of an aristocrat Spanish clan.

Tan, 67, owns Asia Brewery, Fortune Tobacco, Philippine Airlines and Philippine National Bank while the 77-year-old Sy manages the SM shopping malls. Ty, 69, runs Metro Bank, the country's largest commercial bank while Ayala, 42, heads Ayala Corp., the largest conglomerate in the Philippines.

Other Filipinos who figured in previous billionaires' lists are John Gokongwei, a property and retail tycoon; Manuel Villar, a senator who controls the country's largest housing developer company; Danding Cojuangco, chairman of San Miguel Corp.; the Lopez clan of Meralco and ABS-CBN; and Tan Yu, a property mogul.

Who can accuse the Philippines as a country of poor people. I may be poor, but at least four Filipinos are not. And I am proud of this fact. Are you?

[AmorsoloX]

so inherent jud sa filipino ang poor mans mentality.. thats why seldom ra jud ang mo rise above..

then maau kaau mo blame sa government or somebody else.. dili willing mo admit sa iya contribution sa problema.. maau ra modawat pero dili maau mo hatag... kung makadawat man gani, mo reklamo pa jud.. mohatag lang gamay, grabe na kaau padako sa storya sa iyang pagka maaung tao...

[grovestreet]

its not inherent. its cultural.

but i don't care if these billionaires are filipinos or not.

What good are all this wealth doing you?

[GOSPELofROCH]

I think c Villar ra ang pure Pinoy dri sa?

[jocons]

unsay ilang buhaton sa mga datu nga dili pure nga pilipino, hutdon nila tanan nato resources nya kung wala, sibat sa pinas. gudbye pooooripino!!!!!!!

[digitalsuperman]

one filipino billionare(im not sure if he's billionare hehe..) i'm really proud of is Manny Pangilinan.

he always give back to the community. siguro maka notice mo. smart is sponsoring sports events in the country. and one thing i like is nag sponsor sila sa sports which is least kaayo ang politika.

[skooter]

kamo raman ni ingon apeke ang pinas. C'mmon everytime i get there during december alegre kaayo inyo mall daghan shoppers, las yr. dri sa states labi na dri sa amo sa michigan mingaw kaayo ila xmas pag uli nako dira i was suprised everybody is happy so w/dat said kato ra ang mga palaboy ang mga saba-an nanag lisod ang pinas.

[SioDenz]

one filipino billionare(im not sure if he's billionare hehe..) i'm really proud of is Manny Pangilinan.

he always give back to the community. siguro maka notice mo. smart is sponsoring sports events in the country. and one thing i like is nag sponsor sila sa sports which is least kaayo ang politika.

o kay laliman sad ka anang piso kada text which is suppose to be free sa lain country, naa pa jud expiry date, cge pa jud padala ringtones, logos etc nya kalit kuhaan imu load...

ask ko nimu pila kaha ka percent ang gigato sa smart sa ila mga sponsorship compare sa pila ka bilton nga kita sa text? way labot sa mga overprice ug panglimbong nila sa mga consumer...

[SioDenz]

kamo raman ni ingon apeke ang pinas. C'mmon everytime i get there during december alegre kaayo inyo mall daghan shoppers, las yr. dri sa states labi na dri sa amo sa michigan mingaw kaayo ila xmas pag uli nako dira i was suprised everybody is happy so w/dat said kato ra ang mga palaboy ang mga saba-an nanag lisod ang pinas.

Nya kabalo ka pila na ka percent ang mga tawo nag shopping sa mall compare sa mga tawo tua sa gawas gipang gutom?

Kaabot kaha na 5 million ang shopping? compare sa 80+ million nga pordoy way ikapalit?

If mga tawo sa mall ra imu basihan sa imu observation, di jud ka kita sa problema sa kawad on. suroy kunu sa mga skwater bro if kita baka alegre nga nag shopping didto, or nag kaon ham, nag inum ug champagne sa ila noche buena..

[skooter]

nya c kinsa mana mga tawhana? so mga palaboy,bogo-on etc...