The Greediest of All Time

[Monseratto]

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Legacy of the People Power Revolution

http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2009/0...-all-time.html

By Linda Stern
From Bernard Madoff to AIG’s bonus-earning execs, Wall Street has redefined economic excess. But the Masters of the Universe didn’t invent greed. Here’s a look at those despots, robber barons and others who make our shortlist of the greediest people of all time.

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Genghis Khan, 1162 -1227
He wanted to own the whole world, and came closer to accomplishing that than anybody else, before or since. After his death, his kingdom stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Adriatic Sea.

Pope Sixtus IV, 1471
This pope (seated) greatly enriched himself and his top cardinals (who may have been his sons) by licensing and taxing brothels and claiming he could retroactively get the troubled souls of dead people into heaven by selling indulgences to their living relatives. Oh, and he sanctioned the Spanish Inquisition, too.

Empress Dowager Cixi, 1835-1908
She started as a concubine but became the de facto ruler of China for nearly 50 years. She all but ran her son’s empire until his death. Then she had her 3-year-old nephew named emperor and kept him locked up so she could continue to run the show--for a profit. Cixi used the navy’s money to build herself a marble banquet boat, aboard which she ate 150-dish dinners with golden chopsticks. She had 3,000 jewelry boxes; who knows how many jewels?

Imelda Marcos 1929 -
She saw it as her duty to provide “some kind of light, a star” for the impoverished Filipino people over whom her husband presided. So she took $5 million shopping sprees to New York and Rome, reportedly owned the world’s largest collections of gems and 3,000 pairs of shoes.

[ans_lim168]

I think Germany's Adolf Hitler should make the list.

[jeDi13]

and GMA too

[jave]

Hitler? Greedy? Maybe.

Though, insanity, twisted beliefs, pride, and extreme self-righteousness tops the list more.

The last two also hold true for Imelda.

[donbuggy]

"There's a little bit of Imelda in all of us."
- shoe advertisment

[Ry_Tower]

"There's a little bit of Imelda in all of us."
- shoe advertisment

hehe, ganun ka-greedy si Imelda, part na siya ng colloquial terms natin.

[emj21]

and dont forget x-FGA..

[oliver1013]

E si Mubarak? Idi AMin?

[jave]

and dont forget x-FGA..

F****ng Greedy A**h*le?

[vito corleone]

hitler was not greedy, he was nationalistically insane

imelda - indisputably greedy

ex-fga - during their time in malacanang, no foreign investor was approved without passing through him

gma - kulang ang 9 na taon na pagiging pangulo, nag-kongresista pa

marcos - he didn't want to share power and so he ruled by presidential decrees

danding cojuangco, lucio tan - namasasa nung panahon ni marcos, laway lang ang puhunan

jejomar binay - a unit in each of condo buildings built during his time--that's greedy

fvr - nag-enjoy sa pagbebenta ng gov't properties during his time, so gusto pang umulit ng pagkapangulo

erap - trusting, but nevertheless greedy