Change We Must - A Call To Action

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The World's Billionaire's - What's Wrong With This Picture?
The World's Billionaires - Part II

From what you have read so far, you might be assuming that I think that all people who are billionaires are horrible, corrupt people. My short response to this is that, no, I do not think that all billionaires are horrible, corrupt people. Now, here comes the long response. Money and, hence, the greed for it can and does corrupt people. Does it change them from good people to bad people? No. However, it does accentuate characteristics that these people have always had. If a person who has selfish, greedy, and uncaring characteristics starts a company and becomes a billionaire, these characteristics will be accentuated. On the other hand, if a person who has generosity, compassion, and altruistic characteristics starts a company and becomes a billionaire, these characteristics will be accentuated. In my previous post, I gave examples of the billionaire companies who have selfish, greedy and uncaring presidents and/or CEO's. Obviously, there are some billionaires such as Bill Gates (formerly with Microsoft), Warren Buffett (an investor), and Carlos Slim Helu (CEO America Movil in Mexico) who do give a lot of money to charities and such. Nevertheless, I strongly feel that those billionaires who are a detriment to society outweigh (not necessarily outnumber) those who are more generous.

It's time for a change in attitude. I feel that U.S. citizens have stood apathetically by the sidelines for too long. It's time to take action and make the country greater than our forefathers, who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, ever dreamed. Remember when JFK said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Well, in my eyes, it has to be a give and take relationship. Thus, we must also add, "Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you." The best way to affect change is to start at the top. Thus, this is a political issue as much as it is an individual issue. So, we, as U.S. citizens, have to take a stand by starting with the country's leadership. GWB has already sacrificed over 3000 lives in a war that we did not need to start. He, through congress, is dumping money by the billions into this war. Billions in money that the government does not have. To make matters worse, GWB has consistently ignored the system of checks and balances that the founding fathers put in place. That's about as close to a fascist regime as you can get without actually being called one. It's time to hold our politicians accountable!

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