Power & The Presidency ?

Posted by: John Despard
Thu Jun 17, 2010

All my life I have heard "the President of the US is the most powerful person in the world", also "wealth = power". Following this logic one would think the President of the US would be the richest man in the world. The cost of everything we buy from a can of coke to military jets has built into it the millions or even billions paid to CEOs, bankers, Wall St. workers, athletes, entertainers, lobbyists, agents, commentators, etc. While I can boycott Walmart, Coca Cola, Exxon, BP, or whoever because I don't like their business practices, the only control over how our government spends my tax dollar is my vote. Perhaps it is time for a MAXIMUM wage as well as a minimum (which needs to be a living) wage. I would suggest starting with the president's salary as a benchmark, that no one getting bailouts, government contracts, special tax breaks, etc. can earn more than the president. With this in effect perhaps the airline executives would not have the money for their bribes (oops, I mean donations) to congress. I personally feel that only Jesus Christ would deserve a billion dollars a year. Perhaps such as Gutenberg, Gandhi, MLK, Louis Pasteur, Cesar Chavez, Hillary Clinton, Barney Frank, etc. might deserve a million dollars a year. I realize some people might have a totally different list than mine but I do think that the list of any honest, thinking person would be pretty long before such names as Buffett, Gates, Brittney Spears, Alec Rodriguez, George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, etc. started appearing.

Editorial : Make sense to you ? Does to me ! This was just too good, not to publish !