The Greediest of All Time

**Monseratto** · February 14th, 2011 08:04 AM

Di kasama si Fat Bastard...

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** · February 14th, 2011 08:29 AM

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

**jeDi13** · February 14th, 2011 09:53 AM

and GMA too

**jave** · February 14th, 2011 11:21 AM

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** · February 14th, 2011 11:26 AM

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

**emj21** · February 14th, 2011 11:29 AM

and dont forget x-FGA..

**oliver1013** · February 14th, 2011 11:32 AM

E si Mubarak? Idi AMin?

**jave** · February 14th, 2011 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by emj21

and dont forget x-FGA..

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

**vito corleone** · February 14th, 2011 12:43 PM

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

**Monseratto** · March 21st, 2011 12:58 PM

Classic Imelda... Grandmother of Bling...Watch 3:15 and the fabled US$987 billion certificate...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzcliLJolk]Marcos treasure[/ame]