All ya need is a big ass corporation... and many kiss ass MF.... Ya think we wee ones make a difference?

Hahahaha! Wait to be "taxed" on your garbage bags!!!!!

Welcome to TX

Denny...The one exception I would make is...some 30-50 years ago the CEO of a corp (middle-big) made about 5-10X the average workers salery....TODAY more than 100X. The pay for CEO's is so beyond what it should be or deserve, especially those whose companies are failing. There really does need to be some balance and accountability. Yes people who start companies and take risks should have the opportunity for wealth especially since the odds of success are limited BUT too many greedy bastards in business/politics etc who truely don't deserve what they are skimming off the top.

off the soapbox....

Frivolous spending is not a curse of the rich as much as it is a curse of the poor in my experience.

Poohbear23 -
I agree, that people that are responsilbe should be held accountable -by attaching pay to performance. Lee Iacocca is an example. You turn the big buck, you get the big bucks.
As far as grifters, con men, horsethieves and politicians of any stripe, they should all be given a final free ride - after being tarred and feathered...

just keep in mind....the rich pay your taxes. all i know is i have never worked for a poor person.

buck up and work to your ability and appreciate your worth.

oh by the way......my pup's poop is his own business..............i am reluctant to stick my nose where it doesn't belong.

wow, interesting comments. What I mean by fixing society is that ours is obviously crashing , somethings not working. Capitalism is supplanted by corporatism and openly corrupt politicans.
If they truely earned ( AKA worked for ) their money more power to them. The problem is that the haves control the lawmakers and therefore tilt the playing field.
Why did you think that 401 K's are tax deferred and investing in Joe's Hardware isn't? When the stock market crashed, YOU were vested to bail they're asses out!
Paris Hilton and a grandmother struggling to raise 4 kids in a broken down trailer, should not exist in the same society at the same time. Should they?

I don't want to live in a society that chooses who is ok to live there. (How do you define "truely earned"?) Paris Hilton has just as much right to live as trailor park granny.

And how come the Hollywood actor who makes 50 million a film is a model citizen but the CEO who makes 50 million is evil and greedy?

they're all overpaid and greedy because they control the distribution. Like it or not wealth and power along with federal and cororate power may need to be limited.

apparently our definitions of "earned " vary considerably Jack. Listen, I don't hate the rich. But if all of you are right and I'm so wrong why is this "perfect system" crashing?

DT, We are definitely on the same page.

DT- with all due respect you speak about limiting power and wealth in both government and corporations but even if I agreed with you, how do you remotely propose that would be done without flying in the face of personal freedom and MORE government intervention? You say the government has to much power but you want the government to control how much money I can make or how big my company can get? Doesn't jive my friend.

actually at the personal level you're right Rick. But not at the corporate level. Corporate personhood is a myth the USSC just perpetuated. It is nowhere in the Constsitution. Probably killing the megacorps would take care the personal limitations as well, so I agree there.
But why do you automatically think corporate size limitations would increase government? The fact is we creat useless agencies and buerocrocies to regulate the megacorps now, which is far more government than a few simple and actually enforced rules would be.

Since this appears to be spinning down, Just how much is enough? 100K, 200K? Do we use price controls to insure things don't cost too much? Who establishes the prices?

ok denny, I acknowledge that personal limitations don't fit the freedom we're supposed to have.
But corporations have no rights under the Constitution. How big is too big. When the manipulate rather than compete in whole markets.
I had a professor back in community college who knew you can't not regulate oligopies to some extent.

DT, I was thinking of personal wealth. Lets say Bill Gates for example - net worth greater than the GNP of most countries.
On the corporate side, let's say fanny mae or freddy mack, so huge you can't let them fail. And so corrupt they are destined to fail. GM, who pays government loans by borrowing government money? And is majority owned by the government.
Heinlein called these the crazy years. He was right. We have coporate-states and city-states. The corporate states are entities- if not in fact, in functionality. They have the ability to destroy and kill, just as if a war was on. and this is coming to pass.
Not money, my friend - it's all about power. Nothing but power.
We live in interesting times...