Another view as to why inequality is a legitimate problem in the USA.

The rewards of capitalism is about excellence, but, in the wrong hands it lends itself to immorality. It is my understanding that Pope Francis is addressing the problem faced in inequality. Pope Francis is a breath of fresh air in the USA. This is from the Atlantic Journal Constitution.

Mr. Limbaugh has no credentials to challenge the insight of Pope Francis. It is just that simple. Limbaugh has his credentialing in exploiting words and sentence structure in creating myths otherwise known as lies. He is an immoral man wrapped in commercialization of politics at the cost of others. He doesn't offer a service benevolent to our society. "Freedom of Speech" should not cost the people's it's balance of need vs wealth.

By Leonard Pitts

I like capitalism. (click here)

Specifically, I like the idea that if I write a better book, have a better idea, build a better mousetrap, I will be rewarded accordingly. A system where everyone gets the same reward regardless of quality or quantity of work is inconsistent with excellence and innovation, as the mediocrity and inefficiency that beset the Soviet Union readily proves.

The woman who is successful under capitalism gets to eat steak and lobster whenever she wants. That’s never bothered me. What does bother me is the notion that the unsuccessful man who lacks that woman’s talent, resources, opportunities or luck should not get to eat at all. There is something obscene in the notion that a person can work full time for a multinational corporation and earn not enough to keep a roof over his head or food on his table. The so-called safety net by which we supposedly protect the poor ought to be a solid floor, a level of basic sustenance through which we, as moral people, allow no one to fall — particularly if their penury is through no fault of their own.

Maybe you regard that opinion as radical and extremist. Maybe it is. But if so, I am in excellent company.

Martin Luther King, for instance, mused that “there must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”

The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 8:13-15, that it’s wrong for some to live lives of ease while others struggle. “The goal is equality, as it is written: ‘The one who gathered much did not have too much and the one who gathered little did not have too little.’” In Acts 4:32, Luke writes approvingly of the early church that: “No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.”...

...Pope Francis writes that poverty must be “radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality…”