Instead of simply lecturing young people about the evils of socialism, we should put more effort into ensuring the financial integrity of our system.
Perhaps I, too, would have come to doubt capitalism were I of their generation.
We looked the other way as individuals in the nonprofit, education and religious sectors were awarded outrageous salaries, and we failed to register our disapproval with corporate America when its titans received compensation packages not even close to being commensurate to the tasks they were being asked to perform.
Should the president of a private religious college earn $4.9 million a year? He did. Should religious leaders earn over a million dollars a year? They have. Should various state and federal educational bureaucrats earn a million dollars a year? They do. "When he got his bonus last year, I did the math, and I figured out that he could have given personally, out of pocket, a 15 percent raise to everyone who worked at Disneyland, and still walked away with $10 million," she said at a."So there's a point at which there's just too much going around the top of the system into this class of people who—I'm sorry this is radical—have too much money. There is such a thing.
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