Monday, October 4, 2010

America's deepening moral crisis

The language of collective compassion has been abandoned in the U.S.,
and no politician dare even mention helping the poor.
www.easyapps.sg/sgep/latest.aspx

My view
Many countries, including Singapore, have a wide disparity in income distribution. Some people are super rich but many others are poor. I have said, "to support every rich billionaire, we need many hundred thousand people to be poor". Some disparity of income is necessary to get people to work a little harder, but extreme disparity is exploitation - as it forces the lower income to work so much more hours, just to earn enough to pay for the cost of living.