Nothing will test the moral foundation of humanity more than how
mankind addresses this issue and nothing will be more important to our
physical and spiritual survival.

Nothing will test the moral foundation of humanity more than how
Individuals address this issue and nothing will be more important to our
physical and spiritual survival.

Individuals are the source of good. Humanity is the source of evil. Spiritual survival is an individual thing, though contagious. It cannot be gained through the actions of humanity. And, Humanity can take no credit for the actions of the truly decent people in this world that decide to act upon their moral compass and p...

Nothing will test the moral foundation of humanity more than how
mankind addresses this issue and nothing will be more important to our
physical and spiritual survival.

Nothing will test the moral foundation of humanity more than how
Individuals address this issue and nothing will be more important to our
physical and spiritual survival.

Individuals are the source of good. Humanity is the source of evil. Spiritual survival is an individual thing, though contagious. It cannot be gained through the actions of humanity. And, Humanity can take no credit for the actions of the truly decent people in this world that decide to act upon their moral compass and provide charity and compassion to the world. Humanity has nothing to do with my deeds. Humanity has much to do with your lack of deeds.

Any proposal to lessen a gap of income inequality, outside of assistance (a hand up) to "teach a man to fish", is based on concepts of materialism that have led to even more inequality or equality in misery.

The moral imperative is for you to take personal action, not to insist or force it from others.
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Terrorism, disease, war, political unrest, hunger, malnutrition,
polluted water, racial intolerance, crime, drug and alcohol abuse and
suicide all can be traced to poverty.

Just a note about this phrase from your comment. It is pure propaganda. In fact, it so ridiculously false as to suggest no pretense about it's purpose.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, is because they target their peers. The poor are not a threat, but the domain of the rich is not somewhere that coming second means much. They acquire wealth through acquisitions, mergers, buyouts, bank auctions, as the money is divided amongst fewer people, the losers dropping out, or being rendered impotent. The pursuit of wealth when it gets to extremes, is the sort of thing that eats it's self, until whoever is left has lost touch with the people not through ignorance as much as not realizing what the public was doing while they were watching their back. Then when they command alone, they suddenly realize the only support you can get is that which ...

One of the reasons the rich get richer, is because they target their peers. The poor are not a threat, but the domain of the rich is not somewhere that coming second means much. They acquire wealth through acquisitions, mergers, buyouts, bank auctions, as the money is divided amongst fewer people, the losers dropping out, or being rendered impotent. The pursuit of wealth when it gets to extremes, is the sort of thing that eats it's self, until whoever is left has lost touch with the people not through ignorance as much as not realizing what the public was doing while they were watching their back. Then when they command alone, they suddenly realize the only support you can get is that which you can buy. Despite what the stockmarket would have us believe, money cannot appear and disappear out of thin air. For it to be anything more than paper or brass it has to be backed by a physical asset. The trouble always comes when the second set of books don't balance.
The rich are their own worst enemies.
The poor become resourceful by necessity, and the law of survival overshadows any law enacted for the sake of authority.
Through the trials come an improved chance of survival.
Inbreeding amongst the rich has seriously limited their gene pool
There is an expression
'It is possible to drown in honey'

I will give a true story account of what I have seen at one small company that I worked for. It might give understanding to some. But those who never experienced it, will always block this out and pretend all is fair in the world.

I worked for a small company of 200 employees. The pay was not high and the conditions were close to sweatshop. The owner of the company decided to outsource half of the work to Guatemala. He got the workers together and told us his plans to save the company from total collapse. He even stated with a smile that the Guatemalans would do the same job for $0.35 that is 35 cents per hour. No wonder we are so hated through out the world. Our rich businessmen think no...

I will give a true story account of what I have seen at one small company that I worked for. It might give understanding to some. But those who never experienced it, will always block this out and pretend all is fair in the world.

I worked for a small company of 200 employees. The pay was not high and the conditions were close to sweatshop. The owner of the company decided to outsource half of the work to Guatemala. He got the workers together and told us his plans to save the company from total collapse. He even stated with a smile that the Guatemalans would do the same job for $0.35 that is 35 cents per hour. No wonder we are so hated through out the world. Our rich businessmen think nothing of oppressing other people in other countries.

So 100 workers were laid off permanently that day. And what day was that. It was the Friday before the holiday weekend. And that holiday was Labor Day. So did this great deal help save the company? Actually it didn’t. You see the labor cost was cheap. But they had to ship material to Guatemala , there and back. From what I was told from those who were able to keep their job. The mistakes that were made had to be corrected by the people here. There was a party in between that handled the shipping of the product to and from locations. Costs went up because of fuel prices. And the items unit price or price per item went up 3.2%. But I can imagine that loss was covered by us taxpayers. Since Bush pays these businesses to do their outsourcing.

So from what I see this country will collapse. Because this country became great by its work force. Not by its wealthy elite.