OK. My critics say, Hey, Rutan's just spending a lot of these billionaires' money for joyrides for billionaires.

This country belongs to all of us, not just a handfull of billionaires.

The US economy has been taken over by billionaires, the oil industry, and other key sectors.

The Internet and the financial sector continue to spawn new multi millionaires and even billionaires at a staggering pace.

Whether billionaires or not, they share a prickly hostility to so called elites, from whom they feel socially excluded.

We know that in countries as diverse as China, India, Russia, and the United States, the number of billionaires soared.

And, of course, the financial community was making money hand over fist, creating scores of millionaires and even billionaires worldwide.

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, and the other millionaires and billionaires of Microsoft are brilliant, hardworking, entrepreneurial, and justly wealthy.

In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires, and as the 11th richest person in the U.S.

Similarly, while charitable donations by billionaires certainly should be welcomed, companies should also be made to pay a reasonable amount of taxes.

Does it matter so much that a few Chinese and Indians have become billionaires, if in the process hundreds of millions escaped extreme poverty?

Such CSR builds the firm s image as a good corporation, just as giving by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet builds their image as good billionaires.

Sadly, this leads me to another three Bs that represents how the media in the West talks about us as bombers, billionaires and belly dancers.

It is possible that many Americans are still so convinced that anyone who works hard will end up rich that they will support anything that favors billionaires.

While the number of new dot com billionaires created each day is likely to diminish drastically, the benefits of IT to the real economy will continue to spread.

In contrast to Gates, Jobs did not sign the Giving Pledge of Warren Buffett which challenged the world's richest billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

It would be a move somewhat similar to that contemplated in the US by the Clinton administration, which proposed a tax on billionaires who surrendered their citizenship in order to avoid taxation.

After all, politicians, celebrities, drug dealers, sports stars and billionaires carry more weight with the global media than the poor and hungry their scandals are deemed more newsworthy than the latter's suffering.

The first happened at the end of November, when a group of billionaires led by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos announced the creation of a 20 billion fund to back clean energy research.

With their enormous cash flow, Russian billionaires are buying sumptuous properties all over the world, and Russia is buying prominent Germans like the former Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, if not the support of Germany as such.

The old jibe about American prosperity was that it was composed of jobs flipping hamburgers and armies of homeless people the new joke seems to be one of Silicon Valley billionaires and displaced workers from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

I am quite sure that The Wall Street Journal does not really represent the interests or views of many or even most of American rich people, including the millionaires and billionaires whose contributions to aid could make a huge difference for the lives of millions of people.