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The number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1 million or more, not including primary residence, jumped 16% to 7.8 million in 2009 from 6.7 million the year before, according to a report released today by Spectrem Group.

That follows the 27% decline in the millionaire population in 2008.

The number of Ultra High Net Worth households, or those with a net worth of $5 million or more (not including primary home), rose 17% to 980,000 in 2009.

The millionaire population is still far short of the 9.2 million counted by the Chicago wealth-research firm at the peak in 2007. But the trend shows that the recovery is well underway–at least for the wealthy.

“The nation’s millionaires–together with its Ultra High Net Worth households–are bouncing back from the recession,” said George H. Walper Jr., president of Spectrem Group.

In addition to the millionaire groups, the broader affluent population, those with a net worth of $500,000 or more, climbed 12% in 2009 to 12.7 million

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth...in-2009

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Illegal aliens are obstacle to health plan

J.H. MANKOPF

Before you can fix something, you must find out and stop what broke it. The proposed new health care system will never work, because there are over 10 million illegal aliens and 7 million or 8 million U.S. citizens who are 20 to 50 years old, have never had a job and don’t want one. When they get sick, they go to emergency and public assistance.
Why should hardworking Americans have to pay for health care for people who’ve broken our laws or will not work? When American citizens break the law, we go to jail or pay fines or both. Illegal aliens have broken the law, have helped break Medicaid and the hospital emergency system and have also raided public assistance. It costs them nothing! Some have even been deported three or four times! When 10 million illegal aliens are deported and not given amnesty, then, perhaps, people will believe Congress cares about immigration laws.
We have troops in several countries protecting their borders. Why not ours? Put 5,000 or 10,000 National Guard troops on the Mexican border. That would stop illegal immigration and curtail the drug cartel selling poison to our young people. It would also stop them from sending billions of drug money back to Mexico. They sure are our trading partners. They send us millions of illegal aliens and tons of dope!
Stopping this insanity probably wouldn’t be politically correct.

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