A caring government sees to it that the citizens respect each other and cooperate; not that the greedy are allowed to suck the non-materialists like vampirs. As the gap between richest and poorest is fifty billion dollars wide in their country the Washington based leaders through these glasses are the worst in the whole world. Extreme power derived from money enslaves co-humans, limits their personal rights and reduces national prosperity. To illustrate the latter think of a society with two persons of whom the first after feeding has just enough money left to buy a bicycle while the other dispose of a million dollars. Their sharing of labour will be thus that the poorer fellow has to produce all what is necessary while the other is completely occupied with transferring as much wealth as possible to himself. He buys cars, yachts, horses and has not sufficient time to use all the luxury, which in economic terms means spilling the "national" production. While this could increase substantially if he took a job in a factory too. Or abundancy would result for both in less working time.
In the USA things won't change unless new, better democracy is introduced with real power for the majority of middle and lower incomes. This easily can be achieved with the continental European election system, provided that the salaries for the representees are halved from what these are now. Because the general tendency is to attend the interests of own financial class best.
In the euro zone all influential leaders have reached the upper class affluently doted with power and money. That results in wrong handling the greek problem. The foreign debt of Greece is not abnormally high and can be paid back since tourism brings in twenty billion euros per year and the Greek will arrive where they want to go also by train and donkey. Bring your old bicycle with you as a gift when taking holidays there. The real problem is that Athens lent money in vast amounts from own interior banks to distibute it as nice salaries, pensions and subsidies, while neglecting to collect taxes. The remedy is simply giving now anti-money in the form of debts to the state, like a hundredthousand for each house owner (fine tuning not regarded here) and a tenthousand for those with a car. Then a situation arises comparable with northern countries where the population got high mortgages. The same for Italy as most of the state debt is held by rich tax evaders. Privatisation of state enterprises will be welcomed -and they are heard most- by rich buyers who intend to make profit and will rise prices for the consumers. Thus widening " the gap".
Making transfer of capital of the wealthy to the indebted state is a sound process and America needs it also to reduce crime originating from jealouzy and poverty. Thousands of years ago the Israelites every fifty years had to redistribute production means, which then was land, in order to give the looser a new chance but especially to provide equal starting positions for youth. Today in Israel about twenty families took almost all economic power. Modern redistribution is well possible gradually by two percent reduction of private capital each year. The money can flow to the Treasury or to eco-coco (collective, cooperative) companies. Of course growth form own labour will be allowed and stimulated. Jews and moslims are not to take interest if this has exploiting character. Payments of interests in southern euro-countries can be adjusted.
Redistribution of capital, equal chances for everybody is unwanted by those rich and in power now. They do appreciate that the state lends money from them and pays them interest taken from the middle and lower classes. One of the most corrupt regimes in this respects sits in The Hague, where also International Courts reside. Violating art 60 of the Paris Treaty (1953) which aims an open, honest market and therefore guarantees that everybody can buy goods and services for the same low price as offered to others, the government enables the well-to-do to buy houses for tens of percents less than a minimum wager via tax reductions on mortgage interest. Another, very sneaky trick is to draw money out of the pockets of lower incomes towards already wealthy people via the pensionfund system.
Good government reigns by law and money of which the first is strongest. Good law protects the weaker party and brings back the greedy to normal citizenship. Note that the most important job on Earth is that of the man in the White House. Obama gets a quarter million salary and this should be the absolute maximum for everybody else. He may earn a bonus by helping the oppressed Westpapuans, the Tibetans, the Kurds, the Basques, those in north-east India getting independance or autonomy. But presently he deserves none. Neutral observers have to conclude that here is bad Office at the White House.
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