If you were suddenly elected King or Queen of the World, what would you do?
After the way the elections and such have gone, and knowing the way the lesser-in-life (but not lesser-in-stature) are getting done to, I'd do whatever it took to raise the level of the lowers and lower the level of the highers.
It's a shame to say, but it seems to me that the greater, these days, are shamelssly and without regret dining on the lesser. Did you know that, if you're an Oregonian and you earn wages, you're being depended on to support our overall societal infrastructure for great corporations? It's true. And if you earn a living you are expected to foot the bill for the federal government-while the great and mighty captains, who make no money from the sweat of their brows, pay nothing to sustain the systems that make thier success possible?
In a greater and lesser way, it's happening around the world. Even those of us in a poorer state in America are living better than those in a poorer state elsewhere in the world, but due to the nature of global commerce even the most miserly American lifestyle may very well manage, in some way, to tread upon the health and well-being of some wage slave in some overseas nation.
I'd have the obscenely rich give just a bit of what they have so the poor wouldn't be so poor. They don't give much now, and would give nothing if they could, but it's not only socially responsible but morally obliging-especially if you truly follow the Christian way, which say not that if you're rich God loves you and you should keep it, but says that if you're rich then you're obliged to help out, if only in some small way, your less fortunate fellows.
If the rich were a little less rich, they'd still be obscenely rich. If the powerful were a little less powerful, they'd still command much.
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