The news is so full of what is wrong with America that we
don’t take time to think about what is so right with our country. I think about
Senator Elizabeth Warren pointing out to those who have built small companies that
they exist in an environment that allows them to become entrepreneurs. We have
and educated work force, paved streets, and utilities, we have a banking system,
and we have regulations that allow everyone to have fair and equal treatment under
the law. The government treats all equally; huge corporations as well as the smallest
of businesses, the highest paid as well as the lowest paid workers. We have a compassionate
government. We are so far removed from the reality we are seem to be blind to
the actuality of rest of the world. From our perch of righteousness, we look
with as much horror at places such as the Central African Republic where
religious strife is tearing that society apart—half the Christians are killing
the Muslims half in the name of religion. We see that in the same light, as we look
at a single, uncared for, demented person digging in garbage for food out the
window of a five star hotel in some remote capital around the world. We sometimes
see wealth in that same light. We do not seem to be able to judge amounts to
put them in some sort of perspective we can grasp.
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According to a recent report, more than $2.1 trillion worth
of profit generated by some of the biggest United States-based corporations is
being held in banks over seas. Can anyone really grasp how much money that is
or where it came from? Regardless, we know why it is there—insatiability like
in a hotdog-eating contest; it makes no sense. It is as much a waste as eating
69 hotdogs and buns in 10 minutes—and equally as degusting.
It is there because the multimillion-dollar corporations do
not want to pay taxes on it, which they would have to do if they were to bring
it back into this country. We can and should shame on these decision makers. They
live in our beautiful country, they enjoy the protections and the freedoms,
they have the fairness of banking, and they have a say in the tax laws that has
allowed them to accumulate all that money. They could cut their prices, pay
workers more, or they could pay taxes. It is not possible that 2.1 trillion has
any meaning for them any more than it has for the person digging in the garbage
pail. A sum of money like 2.1 trillion-dollars has no meaning in either context.
Money only has meaning when reduced to usable amounts; 2.1 trillion dollar divided
by 330 million people can enter our consciousness; $6,363 for every person in
the United States.
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