Note: This is a draft containing some ideas that I am developing.
We have a small group of elite rich folks siphoning off our nation's wealth that is produced by labor ... the mental and physical effort of workers, those who perform the labor.
The elite rich folks no longer acquire the wealth labor produces by owning the workers as slaves, which gave them unassailable rights to that wealth. They now acquire the wealth through contracts bearing interest also giving them unassailable rights to that wealth when there is no fraud. For example, people are being driven from their homes—today in droves—because they cannot pay the mortgage. The banks are the new company store where you can purchase anything you want on credit, in a pyramid raising to the pinnacle of "too big to fail."
The real problem though is the failure of these elite folks to pay the true cost of producing the wealth let alone invest in the nation's future. Their greed is so palpable that is hard to understand how their use of usury in "doing business" could have gained such a foothold in a populace voicing adherence to an Abrahamic religious faith when all three Abrahamic religions condemn usury.
They do not pay for the use of infrastructure that is provided to them by the "common good." We see all around the crumbling of our infrastructure—highways, powerlines, waterways, and so forth; due to lack of maintenance, let alone improved to meet future needs.
They do not pay for the natural resources they consume out of the common bounty of the earth, nor do they clean up after themselves unless forced to do so like any spoiled child, brought kicking and screaming to the task by the courts.
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