Rich Get Richer

The US has the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world hitting the middle class and poor; the gap between the top one percent and the remaining 99% of the US population has grown to a record high.

The name United States portends unity, but a name is only an exterior facade; the truth is an uncomfortable reality–a growing disparity between rich and poor. No question, there are just too many rich people.

The Torah demands that stewards of riches be respected because God made them rich; with richness comes responsibility–not to let society run amok.

All ancient texts extoll charity and caring for the weak; by placing this obligation to help the poor on religion who lives by the tax break and donations from the rich have been bribed into silence–a de facto way of the rich ignoring their obligation.

The reason for this divide between rich and poor is the separation between church and state which allocates morality to religion freeing capitalism to pursue greed. Though charity is mentioned often all ancient texts, religion is never mentioned–there is no word in the Torah, Koran, and in the Hindu Vedas for the word religion.

Religion came from Rome just like our political system, economic system, military/technological apparatus and philosophies of life. The end of Rome was nine years ago, it is time to move on.