Who profits...?

File this under the heading, "Things that make you go Hmmmm...."

How you Americans can put up with the Greedy Bastards who own the place is beyond me.  What benefit do you actually see from allowing and enabling the top 1% to do what they do?

Here are a few facts to warm up a conversation.

• US corporations stash 40 percent of their profits outside the US
• $166BILLION in US corporate profit is parked offshore in 2012
• 2/3rd's of US corporations pay no tax at all
• Jobs are shipped to China where labor is cheaper and the supposedly brains sharper
• The Middle Class in America is now only a memory of it's former self

Here are a few facts about how the top 1% is getting wealthier.

• In just salary alone (ignoring annual stock option sales), SP500 CEOs make more than 300times the average amount of their employees.
•  When adding stock option sales in 2011...
• Apple CEO Tim Cook gained $377MILLION+
• Nike CEO Mark Parker gained $35MILLION+
• Danaher CEO Larry Culp gained $21MILLION+
• In November 2012 on just one day's worth of trading...
• Danaher CEO Larry Culp gained $59,686,600 on November 22, 2012 when he sold just 1MILLION shares of his stock options (you should see what he sold on subsequent days too!)
• Danaher board members the Riles brothers gained $755,550,000 on November 24, 2012 by selling 15MILLION shares!
• This is the at the same time (2012) when Danaher Corporate officers permanently "reinvested" $9.3BILLION in revenue overseas to dodge paying any taxes on that money

This stuff goes on every single day in America and no one blinks an eye.  In fact, a large part of the population are rabid supports of this level of greed.  The top 1% are even called "job creators", when the opposite is actually the truth.  Nice "feel good" dodge from reality, don't you think?

Given the facts: What are you people thinking, that you would allow some people to amass this kind of money while jobs you could perform are sent to China?  Do you really feel that powerless that you do nothing to help yourselves get to a different and better place?