The undeniable fact is, our government and in particular our current commander in chief, has fostered an atmosphere in this country making it much harder to do business here. I know this, see this , experience this first hand. The amount of paperwork, compliancy testing, etc required today is staggering and extremely costly. We already have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, this is easily verifiable and a fact. The CEO's etc of the big fortune companies can be argued as overpaid and in many cases I agree they are. Small business however is the driving force in this country. Small business owners in most cases work much harder than their employees, risk their own money, and the current anti-business policies of this administration are making it extremely hard to survive and their heads above water. These people are not immoral money grabbers. They have families, kids in college, medical bills just like everyone else. Making generalities about greedy CEO's is a small piece of the problem.
As far as Henry Ford saying a decent wage needs to be paid to purchase his products and create a consumer class, I agree. I agree some corporations put huge profits as a loftier goal than perhaps they should. But what that really comes down to is ethics and morality. I guarantee you the government cannot legislate that. I don't really see the government having the market sewed up in regards to ethics. There is more corruption in government than in the private sector. They use our tax dollars to fund and buy their voting blocks and act like they do it because they care.
But again the government cannot create wealth, and cannot fund long term an economy based upon dole outs. If you all believe they can, then every government in every country of the world should just create even larger welfare population an everything will just be fine.
To a large degree many of us, at least in North America, have opportunities still although they are dwindling. And yes many fall victim to circumstances beyond their control. There should be safety nets , government safety nets, for those. Many individuals have however quit taking responsibility for their own actions, quit trying to better themselves in society. These folks (and they exist in every race, religion, gender, etc) just take shots at those who have worked a little harder, been a little more successful, are a little more resourceful. Much of it in my opinion is pure jealousy. Politicians use "divide and conquer" to satisfy the need to stay in power. It's done on both sides of the aisle and they are very successful at it.
When all is said and done, I prefer to rely on myself, my family, or a greedy corporation, as opposed to the government.
