For people talking about having a 50 year old retirement age

[OmahaBlueDog]

39. We disagree, but we're not entirely without common ground

A certain amount of greed and striving are good, from my perspective. If one wants a better home, to eat steak every night, or to drive a shiny sports car, then ideally, one need only build a better mousetrap, become the expert mousetrap repair tech, or advise lesser mortals on where to place mousetraps. Better products and services provided to members of society willing to buy them lead to rewards. To me, that's a good thing.

Where you & I agree, in a sense, is "the blood sucking parasites take a lion's share." Government isn't the problem; multi-billion dollar multinational corporations are the problem. I have nothing against wealth, but once one gets beyond 20 times the median salary (I think currently about $750K), it get's excessive, IMO. You can't eat better, you most likely have more cars than you can drive, and there are few luxurys you can't buy. Yet the Grover Norquist crowd whines like teething two year-olds whenever one suggests that higher taxes on CEOs making thousands of times what the average American worker earns is wrong. To my mind, a multi-millionaire made at least a substantial portion of their money from the honest labor of workers making $8-$12/hour with few benefits -- everyone from drivers to clerks to warehouse workers to call center staff.