ATTN CA MILLIONAIRES! I see Hollywood salaries, I know u can pool ur money

[StarsInHerHair]

$169 million Adult Day Health Care program <-----FOR THIS!


http://www.therichest.org/entertainment/vanityfairtop-40-highest-paid-stars-in-hollywood/

http://www.newser.com/story/100216/hollywoods-highest-paid-actors.html

http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/08/depp-stiller-hanks-sandler-business-entertainment-highest-paid-actors.html

1. James Cameron:estimated 2010 earnings $257 MILLION-Do you live in California, 1 of your homes?

2. Johnny Depp estimated 2010 $100 MILLION-do you own a home in California?

3. Steven Spielberg estimated 2010 $80 MILLION-do you own a home in California?

4. Christopher Nolan estimated 2010 $71.5 MILLION-do you live in California?

5. Leonardo DiCaprio estimated 2010 $62 MILLION-do you live in California?

6. Tim Burton estimated 2010 $53 MILLION-can you spare $10,000,000?

"...Brown vetoed a bill Monday that would have offered an alternative to Adult Day Health Care, which was eliminated under the budget signed last month. Now, funding for the approximately 300 existing centers that offer 37,000 adults medical care, physical therapy, exercise, counseling, socialization and other support will be cut off on Dec. 1.

"Providers, patients and families are scared and angry, and they feel abandoned and marginalized," said Lydia Missaelides, executive director of the California Association for Adult Day Services, who noted that the community-based model that defines Adult Day Health Care is exactly what the federal health care reform envisions."

7. Adam Sandler estimated 2010 $50 MILLION-are you living in California?

8. Todd Phillips estimated 2010 $34 MILLION, you're a writer/director/producer

9. Taylor Lautner estimated 2010 $33.5 MILLION, sure you're young but think of those less able than Betty White

10. Robert Downey Jr. estimated 2010 $31.5 MILLION, you've had your ups & downs, are you willing to pool some money to keep a program going that helps the disabled & elderly?

IS ANYBODY OUT THERE? Can you hear this? I stopped at 10, there are more at the links. Will we see more people begging, not just outside supermarkets & at intersections but at places foreigners come into California? Where does this downward climb stop? An archaeologist would comment that we are changing from a society that provided for MOST reciprocally but now those at the to have chosen to provide for only the top 10%; they would say we are choosing to become less of a civilization, you can look at developing nations to see where we are being herded.

[Bryn]

1. K&R for help

I hope they pay attention and help out.

[StarsInHerHair]

3. thank you

[StarsInHerHair]

2. more on the program that Gov Brown just cut effective Dec1st

http://www.aging.ca.gov/programs/adhc/adhc.asp

..."The centers are licensed by the California Department of Public Health and certified for participation in the Medi-Cal Program by the California Department of Aging.

The primary objectives of the program are to:

Restore or maintain optimal capacity for self-care to frail elderly persons or adults with disabilities; and
Delay or prevent inappropriate or personally undesirable institutionalization."....

http://www.aging.ca.gov/programs/adhc/adhc_centers.asp <----where they are located

http://www.seniorresource.com/hsdc.htm

.."Why Adult Day Care:
Generally, family members are the majority care providers for disabled or impaired adults. This care permits these adults to stay at home versus placement in a nursing home. Senior day care and senior adult day care enables caregivers to:

Retain a job outside of their home.
Have help with the physical part of caring for a loved one.
The time away may be a rejuvenator for your relationship.
Avoid the guilt of putting a parent in a "home."
Obtain respite from what can be a 24 hour responsibility."...

[Bryn]

4. You could tweet to each one of them

if you're on the Twitter and link it to this thread

[StarsInHerHair]

6. yes more for me, thanks

[FreakinDJ]

5. Many of these Hollywood Stars shelter their money off shore

must be nice to be them

[Search and Destroy]

11. Do you have a link to backup that claim?

[StarsInHerHair]

7. who knows if they have real twitter accounts? either way done

[FourScore]

8. This thread is dumb. You have no idea what they give or don't. Unrec. n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. Agreed.

The average annual take home pay of a SAG member is something like $50,000/yr.

The OP has NO idea how charitable are the few who make the truly big bucks.

I say leave em' be. They aren't the ones who deserve the ire.

Instead, bitch at the trust that owns the Tejon Ranch and such similar properties and holders of wealth in California. The people listed in the OP are not just small, but TINY potatoes comparatively.

[JDPriestly]

9. K&R

[indurancevile]

10. the income of billionaire california business people is a lot higher.

why single out actors, who are for the most part employees?

20% of all us billionaires reside in california, 80 people from the forbes richest list. i don't think there are any actors on it. just owners.

Net Worth of California’s Richest Residents (From Forbes 400 Richest List)

#3 Larry Ellison, $27 billion, Woodside, Oracle
#11 Larry Page $15 billion, Palo Alto
#11 Sergey Brin $15 billion, SF
#21 Donald Bren, $12 billion, Newport
#39 Mark Zuckerberg, $6.9 billion, Palo Alto
#42 Steve Jobs, $6.1 billion, Palo Alto
#44 Eli Broad, $5.8 billion, Los Angeles
#46 Patrick Soon-Shiong, $5.6 billion, Los Angeles, generic drugs
#48 Eric Schmidt. $5.45 billion, Atherton, Google
#54 David Geffen, $5.1 billion, Malibu, CA movies, music
#70 Cargill MacMillan, $3.8 billion, Indian Springs, Cargill Inc
#83 Charles Schwabb, $3.7 billion, Atherton, Investment
#83 Rupert Johnson, $3.7 billion, San Mateo
#85 Ray Dolby, $3.5 billion, SF, Dolby Labs
#88 Gordon Moore, $3.5 billion, Woodside, Intel
#90 Haim Saban, $3.4 billion, Beverly Hills, CA television
#95 John Sobratto, $3.3 billion, Atherton, Real Estate
#97 George Lucas, $3.25 billion, Marin, Star Wars
#101 George Roberts, $3.1 billion, SF, Leveraged Buyouts
#110 Steven Spielberg, $3 billion, Pacific Palisades, CA movies
#119 Riley Bechtel, $2.9 billion, SF, Bechtel Corp Engineering and War Profiteering
#119 Stephen Bechtel, $2.9 billion, SF, Bechtel Corp Engineering and War Profiteering
#119 Kirk Kerkorian, $2.9 billion, Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos
#124 Sumner Redstone,$2.8 billion, Beverly Hills, CA Viacom
#130 Steven Udvar-Hazy, $2.7 billion, Beverly Hills, International Lease Finance
#130 David Murdock, $2.7 billion, Los Angeles, Dole, real estate
#136 David Sun, $2.6 billion, Orange County, computer memory
#136 John Tu, $2.6 billion, Los Angeles, computer memory
#144 William Hilton, $2.5 billion, Los Angeles, CA hotels, casinos
#144 Archie Emerson, $2.5, Redding, Timber
153 John Anderson, $2.4 billion, Bel Air, CA Investments
153 Tom Gores, $2.4 billion, Beverly Hills, CA private equity
159 Doris Fisher, $2.3, SF, Gap
164 A. Jerrold Perenchio, $2.2 billion, Bel Air, CA Univision
164 Jack Dangermond, $2.2, Redlands, Software
170 Wm. Randolf Hearst III, SF, $2.1
170 Michael Milken, $2.1 billion, Los Angeles, CA Investments, Junk bonds, Prison time
170 Edward Roski, $2.1 billion, Los Angeles, CA real estate
170 Bill Gross, $2.1 billion, Laguna Beach, CA Bonds
182 Gordon Getty, $2, SF, Oil
205 Alan Casden, $1.9 billion, Beverly Hills, CA real estate
217 Jess Jackson, Geyserville, $1.85, Wines
221 Phoebe Heart Cook, $1.81, SF, Hearst Corp
221 George Hearst Jr, $1.8 Los Angeles, CA Hearst Corp
221 David Hearst Jr, $1.8 Los Angeles, CA Hearst Corp
221 Mark Benioff, $1.8, SF, Salesforce.com
221 James Coulter, $1.8, SF, leveraged buyouts
236 Charles Munger, $1.75 Los Angeles, CA Berkshire Hathaway
238 Thomas Siebel, $1.7, Woodside, Siebel Systems
238 Henry Samueli, $1.7 Newport Beach, CA Broadcom
238 Alec Gores, $1.7 Beverly Hills, CA private equity
252 George Argyros, $1.6 Newport Beach, CA real estate, investments
252 Ken Fisher, $1.6, Woodside, Money Management
266 John Doerr, $1.55 Woodside, Venture Capital
269 Henry Nicholas, $1.5 Newport Coast, CA Broadcom
269 Richard Peery, $1.5, Palo Alto, Real Estate
269 Charles Brandes, 1.5, San Diego, Money Management
290 Anthony Pritzker, $1.4 Los Angeles, CA hotels, investments
290 John Pritzker, $1.4, SF, Hotels
290 Gary Michelson, $1.4 Los Angeles, CA medical patents
290 John Arrillaga, $1.4, Portola Valley, Real Estate
290 Romesh Wadhwani $1.4, Palo Alto, Software
308 John Morgridge, $1.3, Portola Valley, Cisco
308 Daniel Pritzker, $1.3, Marin, Hotels
308 Vinod Khosla, $1.3, Portola Valley, Sun Microsystems
308 Michael Moritz, $1.3, SF, Venture Capital
308 Carl Berg, $1.3, Atherton, Real Estate
330 John Fisher, $1.25, SF, Gap
332 Meg Whitman, $1.2, Atherton, Ebay
332, Steve Cook, $1.2, Woodside, Intuit
332 Thomas Barrack, $1.2 Los Angeles, CA Colony Capital
356 Howard Marks, $1.15 Los Angeles, CA money management
356 Bruce Karsh, $1.15 Los Angeles, CA money management
385 Tamara Gustavson, $1 Malibu, CA

Manufacturing a Crisis in California
The supposed budget crisis in California is a fabrication of the rich. If they paid a tiny bit more of their income toward state taxes, there would be a surplus, not a deficit. Corporate profits in California increased by more than 400 percent between 2001 and 2008, yet state revenues from corporate taxes declined by 50% since 1981. At the same time, the income of the upper 1% increased by 77% between 1993 and 2008, while incomes of the bottom 80% remained flat. The wealthiest 1% of income earners averaged $1.7 million in 2010 and paid lower tax rates than they did two decades ago. Meanwhile, in two years, Californians will have added more than $100 billion to their personal income, with $20 billion of it going entirely to the richest 1% of Californians, and $60 billion going to the top 20%.

20% of ALL U.S. billionaires reside in California, or 80 of the Forbes’ richest 400 (See List Below). If just the top 19 paid 10% more in taxes, the $25 billion deficit would be completely erased. If all 80 of the billionaires paid 10% more, there would be a surplus of many billions of dollars, allowing us to increase funding for education, health care, and social services. And if everyone who was worth $1 million or more paid 10% more, we could easily provide health care, housing and a quality education for all.

http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/02/worlds-richest-ripping-off-california.html