The Redistribution of Wealth and Changing American "Values". A radical new approach

The concept of "Cap and Trade" can easily be used to fix the current economic problems in this country caused by Wall Street and Corporate America's greed.

It was originally used to legislate an environmental policy that delivers results with a mandatory cap placed on admissions of air pollution while providing the sources of those emissions the flexibility on 'how' they comply.

The government does not tell anyone "how" to do it. It simply sets a cap on the amount of pollution allowed to be made.

The same principle must be legislatively enacted to create an atmosphere of financial stability and financial equality that benefits all people, not just the wealthy and/or greedy.

It also has become a major "necessity" for government to ensure financial equality and stop the greed factor from completely collapsing this country.

It has been a social necessity to mandate a "minimum" wage for the working class but Corporate America has managed to keep it suppressed to a bare minimum while prices of commodities rise to a level of being only accessible to the wealthy.

There is no need to "redistribute" the wealth, as the dooms day predictors cry, but there IS an urgent need to put a cap on future wages to put a halt to the hogging (voracious hoarding) by a few.

There is no-one on this planet that needs to accumulate billions of dollars in their personal coffers, while fighting for minimum wages to be eliminated, or kept stagnant.

Limiting "maximum" wages to:

• One million dollars per year, for individuals, is not punishment by any means.

• Limiting Corporations to one billion dollars per year in 'net' profits is not punishment either.

• Further mandating that individual Corporation earnings in excess of one billion dollars per year be distributed back to the employees who make it possible to earn those profits in the first place. This can be done in the form of benefits or bonuses, and certainly is not a punishment to corporations by any stretch of the imagination.

While the government cannot tell corporations "how" they must disperse such excessive profits they can "cap" the amounts going to the top executives, and the corporation itself, at the expense of the "minimum" wage earners who are forced to live in poverty when the cost of living exceeds their minimum wage earnings, while the corporate executives, and the crooks on Wall Street, live in luxury.

We put limitations on our children to "teach" them something, but throw all limitations on avaricious adults to the wind.
Without "limitations" being set on people in general it can lead to nothing less than the destruction of our economy and environment that we see happening all around us today.

Although we live our lives like it will never end, it does not negate the fact that it will inevitably end for every last one of us.

How we live our lives and the impact that we make on others and the planetary environment must be a realistic consideration on how we view ourselves in concert with each other and our planet.

Allowing a few to hoard to the point of causing harm to the majority is not a realistic, or idealistic, goal for anyone to be "allowed" to do, without restraints.

We take "criminals" off the streets for hurting other people, but we allow corporate criminality to go unaddressed and/or unmanaged by society as a whole.

And in many instances even 'reward' this adverse behavior with even more power and control over people by corporations.

We (some of us) try to mandate "morality" on other people when the scope and purview of morality itself is shrouded in personal interpretations, myths, and fairy tale stories.

We have discarded humanitarianism as a way of life to accommodate the greed of a few.

We, as a society, try to deny our sins of creating and allowing mass poverty caused by a few greedy people, by sweeping it under the rug to hide it from view.

And we watch many of the grossly undeserving wealthy flaunt their money and power every day in the public sector.

We allow the Supreme Court of the U.S. to further corrupt the government by allowing them to make decisions to protect their wealthy benefactors while putting more hardships on the poor and struggling middle class.

Or perhaps the question should be - should anyone "own" anything that deprives the majority from financial security in this world?

Greed must be eliminated to bring back humanitarianism to this world.

Love and compassion must be promoted to replace the hatred and distrust we have of others and of our very government that is supposed to protecting the people they serve, not sucking up to the rich and powerful.

Religions and their superstitious superfluousness must be re-examined and treated as the brainwashing business enterprises that they are and kept out of politics as intended by our fore fathers.

The 'debates' over the need for reform, and encouraging the 'cap and trade' extension to income equality; will be incessantly filled with opinionated rhetoric.

But we must first keep in mind that there is a vast difference between {decency, humanitarianism, equality} and {communism, socialism or theocratic rule} and the first set has nothing to do with the latter.

by: dwilliam 06/09/14