REALITY: After 80 days of marching, and being beaten by police, Occupy Wall Street is still going strong. The principles that have brought so many people out into the streets remain intact. Economic justice, meaning the wealthy paying their fair share of the taxes in order to keep our nation great. As best as I can tell that is the one value that unites all of the various groups of Occupy Wall Street Patriots. They want a piece of the pie nothing more nothing less. Everyone in America has worked for America in some way shape or form at some point in their lives. All Americans deserve to enjoy the benefits of living in America.
That having been read, there is a group of Americans who do not feel this way. They are the Americans who believe that, because of their good fortune, they deserve some sort of extra ability to rule over everybody else. Jesse 'The Body' Ventura once said "It's better to be lucky than good". He should know he went from bad-guy wrestler with little mobility to Governor of the great state of Minnesota. I've heard the phrase "virtue is its own reward", that is of course because no good deed goes un-punished. Suppose that wealth should be its own reward. Isn't being wealthy enough for you?
Seriously folks, the Americans who are better off than most live easier more fun-filled lives don't they? They sure have no excuse not to be living easier more fun-filled lives. Speaking for myself I feel as though I would be able to enjoy life quite comfortably on a fraction of what the wealthy claim that they are unable to spare for the coffers of the Internal Revenue Service. Country and tax collector be damned my great grandfather owned a company full of people that worked very very hard for a long long time. This means (somehow) that I the modern wealthy man, who inherited that company after a childhood of entitlement, need not contribute to my country in any way that doesn't involve me acquiring more wealth without having to work.
There are indeed great contributions made by companies like this. Not enough that the average person can enjoy them but contributions none the less. Instead of paying taxes major corporations throughout the United States and the world spend billions of dollars paying lobbyists to convince politicians that the best interests of the corporations are also the best interests of the lawmakers of The United States Congress. If this were truly so, corporations wouldn't need to spend that kind of cash trying to make it so.
Right or wrong? Who cares? Right and wrong, for too many Americans and indeed most major U.S. corporations, has been replaced with 'good for business' and well the business world doesn't really have a 'wrong' anymore. I could say inefficiency but they don't care about that, the major corporations in America today are as wasteful as possible. More care is given to handing out six figure bonus checks, and finding new phrases to refer to them by because 'bonus check' or 'bonuses' just sounds bad after you collect hundreds of millions of dollars in free no strings taxpayer money. Wait so tax-payer money goes in but no taxes are paid out? Hhmmmm I think I might have discovered the secret of becoming and staying wealthy. It's the same as the pirate's code: "Take what you can, and give nothing back!"
Just because a person has more funds than another, it does not mean that they are better or worse than the person who has less funds. To me this is a simple enough concept. Take away both of their wallets and you will see what is plain. People are equal. Each person on this planet has an equal right to equal standards of enjoying life. Work is work, 'job' or no 'job', everyone works. Everyone should be free.
Just becuse a person has wealth, that does not automatically grant him power. It grants that person a responsibility to those less fortunate. A responsibility that today's American corporation, willfully ignores in the name of their one and only true god of worship.
Money.
Ps. Jesse 'The Body' Ventura once said "It's better to be lucky than good". He also said "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat". I'm just sayin'.
And As Always,
