Wealthy... work ethic?

How can you even use those two words in the same sentence? I'm not saying all of them, I know there are alot of people who have really worked very hard and quite literally made it to the top all on their own. But they are by far the exception, and they are usually the ones who have no problem paying more taxes, if that's what it takes.

More often than not though, what you have is old money. The wealthy can afford the best colleges for their kids and are connected so their kids have the inside track for the best jobs, or better yet, just go to work in the family business. Money breeds money.

When my eldest daughter applied to colleges she and I got a rude awakening. Work hard, sacrifice, get an educaion, right?

She was eighth in her HS class out of about 450, scored well on her SAT's, like high 1200 or low 1300's if I recall correctly, but when she applied to Wesleyan, Trinity, and Boston College, she got wait-listed.

Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, whose father is the CEO of a large construction firm and was writing a check for his son to go to school, got accepted at both Wesleyan and Trinity, even though he was number 100 in the same class, and scored under 1100 on his SAT's!

This happened with several other of her classmates who were not as qualified as she, but whose parents had money!

The only reason my daughter didn't get in to the schools she wanted and had worked so hard to get in to was that I wasn't writing a check, and she was relying on loans, grants, and scholarships to finance her education. Even though she was more deserving of a spot in those schools, he got in, and she went to UConn, and later to CCSU.

Is THAT equal opportunity? Is THAT what you call a level playing field?

And as to ethics, how "ethical" is it for a CEO to get himself a multi million dollar salary, raid the employees pension fund, lay off thousands of workers, declare a huge dividend for Wall St., and draw a million dollar bonus, for a job well done?

Is that what you call ETHICS? Can you even SPELL ETHICS??