Never Enough

Toy people know that a child who buys one of a set will never settle until they have all of the set if they can.  There is something hard wired in us that seems to want more and more, another one, the next one.  There was a bank that had a commercial that was based on the idea, "I think my more should be doing more."

Those in power in our legislators seem to think that there are some budget items that should keep getting more and more. The trump budget gives to our military an incredible raise and this is the military complex that is already the largest in the world.  Our military spending is already more than the next 25 developed countries in the world and 23 of them are allies of our government. This plus the fact that trump says NATO partners need to pay more of their share so where is the saving going to go?  Never enough money in the military ever to make us safe.

There is the fact that in this country the gap between the Corporate executives in major businesses and the salary average of the basic employees is somewhere over 400 times.  The CEO's make 400 times the average salary of the employees of their companies.  That is the way it was. The paper just reported that the average CEO's salary increased in 2016 by 16 percent, but the average salary of the non-exempt employees barely moved at all.  There is never enough money to satisfy the greed of the CEO's.

The same greed and pride is a major component in the disgusting salaries of professional sports. NBA, NFL and MLB all have players who are well compensated but who are claiming they have been disrespected because they are not being paid properly.  Never enough money to satisfy the pride of some people.

And of course, the bottom line then from government and corporations is that there is never enough left over to build the best schools, to have health care for all, to provide for the elderly, to give enough money to hire enough counselors for mental health, to get enough workers in all kinds of offices and programs.

Maybe if we did exercise what we were supposed to learn in Kindergarten about sharing, and being peaceful, we might have more to help