[TheRealThing]

I agree with you here. Corporate greed concept I was referring to is the still growing disparity between wages of upper management and the shop floor. You are a lot better at crunching/providing numbers than I to substantiate your points. So I won't even try. :biggrin:

Middle class wages have and continue to drop with added work loads due to job consolidation. Workers aren't getting wage increases while upper and middle management net bonuses. So no the route I poorly eluded to has nothing to do with the poor. Although many middle class will get there sooner rather than later at the current rate!

I am for de-regulatuion, less taxes, and the free market. Which one of these clowns will get us there that hasn't already been bought and has enough "spine" to lead us out of this bureaucratic mess?

For now I like the fat guy! :Thumbs:

Boy have they ever and, I agree that corporate greed is alive and well. I don't want to seem cliché here, but I believe much of the problem along those lines is due to the times. And, I know that I complain on here a lot about the political situation, but our political issues too are a reflection of our miserable failings spiritually. A song came out in 1981 entitled "Betty Davis Eyes." One of the lines in that song says "she knows just what it takes to make a crow blush." We don't even blink anymore about things that would have embarrassed even the hardest character several decades ago. The point is men have gotten to the point where they will do, or say, darn near anything to win, get their way or make a buck.

Our morals have been in a state of compromise here in this country for decades. We are reaping what we have sown. In fact, our society has gotten so decadent that if we vote in any Republican out of that field, it will be like pulling the emergency brake on Amtrak. When the SCOTUS is legalizing gay marriage, it is over for all intent and purpose in my mind. I'm hoping for a moral turnaround but, I doubt that is a likely outcome.