My Mind Keeps Going Back

About a week ago I cited an article in The New York Times. The article went into the implications of consumption. The fact that sticks in my mind is that I am consuming 32 times more of the worlds resources than a person in India, or perhaps China. This makes me feel a bit piggish, but then I think about the truly greedy, and really un-needy. If you know me you know I am a liberal left wing, socialist god only knows what. I think about the CEO's making 350 times what an ordinary person makes. Potentially this means the CEO could be consuming, 350 multiplied by 32. This means in theory the CEO gets to consume 11,200 times more than the person in India, or just 350 times what I consume. The ethical and moral question this brings up is why, or is it right. Some people will go to great lengths to spin this into being just fine. Most will say people need incentives to do good things. It just strikes me as crazy to say that in order to get someone to run the Coca Cola company and make Diet Coke for the world you have to give the man 11,200 times more than someone else in the world. Hell, I would do it for five hundred times what a person in India consumes. The absolutely most remarkable thing about this greed gone wild is our president who says we need tax breaks for the guy consuming many times his share of the world resources. My final bitch is the role Christianity plays in this, no Church or preacher ever stands up again this greed. It is what God intended.