Forget private morality--we have a crisis of public morality.
At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state
legislators are furiously focusing on private morality – what people do
in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage – America is
experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality.
CEOs
of large corporations now earn 300 times the wages of average workers.
Insider trading is endemic on Wall Street, where hedge-fund and
private-equity moguls are taking home hundreds of millions.
A
handful of extraordinarily wealthy people are investing unprecedented
sums in the upcoming election, seeking to rig the economy for their
benefit even more than it’s already rigged.
Yet the wages of
average working people continue to languish as jobs are off-shored or
off-loaded onto “independent contractors.”
All this is in sharp contrast to the first three decades after World War II.
READ MORE:http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-americans-obsess-over-sex-lives-strangers-while-ceos-rob-country-blind?sc=fb
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