Topic: Imelda Marcos among Newsweek's greediest people of all time

[Rockford]

Imelda Marcos among Newsweek's greediest people of all time

Former first lady Imelda Marcos has landed in a list of “greediest people of all time” by Newsweek magazine.

Marcos is said to be among the 11 greediest individuals worldwide.

According to Newsweek, Marcos “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,” noted the magazine.

Marcos was also known for holding extravagant parties for foreign visitors during the reign of her husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

The term “Imeldific” eventually stemmed from her lavish lifestyle as the word means “ostentatiously extravagant.”

Aside from Marcos, another woman made it to Newsweek’s “greediest of all time” list.

China’s Empress Dowager Cixi was also named “one of the greediest” after being the de facto leader of China for almost 50 years.

Newsweek noted that the Chinese empress had 3,000 jewelry boxes. She even used the navy’s money to “build herself a marble banquet boat, aboard which she ate 150-dish dinners with golden chopsticks.”

Meanwhile, rounding up the “greediest list” were Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus, Genghis Khan, Pope Sixtus IV, industrialist William H. Vanderbilt, American politician William M. “Boss” Tweed, swindler Charles Ponzi, Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, former Tyco International CEO Dennis Kozlowski, and Bernard Madoff.

Source:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/04/05/09/imelda-among-newsweeks-greediest-people-all-time

http://www.newsweek.com/id/190715

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[gkhan]

I dont know Imelda personally but I guess there must be some agenda for Newsweek editors to be coming out with such outlandish adjectives at this time - after more than two decades that these people are out of power?  Maraming mga ramp models ngayon ang baka mas marami pang sapatos sa sinasabing 2,000 pairs nya.  Holding parties is not her monopoly either coz even Hollywood stars and Wall Street executives and even Hugh Hefner hold bacchanalian affairs occasionally.  The proper adjective to describe any such affair would only depend on the outsider.  A pauper may consider a simple birthday party celebrated in a hotel as "extravagant" while Donald Trump may just wave it as only as "tea time".  When the Lopezes had their party with champagne literally flowing out from a fountain, hindi ba extravagance din yun - or reflection of a much bigger greed and still had the temerity not to refund the consumers even after the Supreme Court has ordered the refund? The irony of it all is that after more than a decade, even the PCCG has not won a single case to prove their allegations in the court of law.  Just because you have money does not mean that money was stolen or "ill-gotten". If we are to follow the logic of do-gooders, a simple enterpreneur making mony in any buy-and-sell activity in our underground economy is earning "ill-gotten" wealth coz that income is not being taxed, not reported and of unknown origin.  With regards to those shopping spree, I don't know whether Newsweek have come out with copies of receipts of purchases to back up their claims of such expenditures.  Otherwise, such claims are only hearsay and reflects the kind of journalism this publication subscribes to.

Let us just be more rational and not take these allegations as bible truth. We can not just believe hearsay or accept propaganda dished out to make another party in a bad light just to win "pogi" points from the public.  By the way, what is the criteria or standard of greed so as to call it in the superlative that this publication used to measure Imelda's alleged behavior?  Dahil kung gusto natin paniwalaan maski wala proof, eh di dapat paniwalaan din natin na hindi nagdaya sa election si GMA dahil wala tayo proof.  Wala din tayo proof na may lagay sa ZTE deal.  Wala rin tayo proof na may kinalaman si Lacson sa pagkamatay ng mga Kuratong Baleleng.

[Paprika]

Congrats! Bahala na balang araw matawag akong greediest basta I had a share of the good life.