OUR UNEVEN SOCIETY TODAY

There are many beautiful women, but not all can capitalize on their beauty and acting talent (as some refer to as 'the ability to fake it') as Dame Elizabeth Taylor did.  While we read that 40% of American children are currently homeless, Taylor's jewelry sold at auction for 150 million dollars.

There is something wrong with a system that allows CEOs to cream off the top of profits, 300 times what they earned a generation ago when shareholders had an opportunity to benefit from their investments (they see little of the profits today with all the tax loopholes and whatever else gets withheld from the public).

That athletes and entertainers earn so much money says something about our system as well.  There are many people with talents and skills who cannot compete with those salaries. Brilliant researchers, physicians, surgeons, medical engineers, too name just a few of the unsung heroes in our workers in medical and many other fields.  The people who are figuring out how to make paraplegics walk again are, in my mind, far greater heroes than the guy who breaks a record for touchdowns..

When one hears Romney willing to bet $10,000 on a ridiculous point, Trump bragging about his money, Gingrich letting everyone know how much fools pay him to hear him talk (bragging about getting $60,000 for a talk), and football players (the equivalent of human bulldozers) winning games through brawn and the expertise of the coach and other team players, it is a script for grave political unrest.. We are now seeing it in the Occupy groups but there are people who feel as strongly but are unable to march.  They will fight with other means.  The sad part of it all is that it will take a full generation before we can be brought back into some balance..