Re: "Moral vacuum?" What do you think, Jody?
Well, there's a "moral vacuum" when the resources of a country are used to the benefit of the wealthy to the exclusion of rest of the citizens.
Natural resources belong to the government, all the people, and the revenue from those should flow to all the people. And the banking and financial system is set up and maintained by the government. It should be used to the benefit of all people, not just the ultra-wealthy.
Anyone who accumulates a profit simply by manipulating the financial system shouldn't resent a very high tax on unearned income. It's simple.
If you don't produce something, you don't earn. It's simple, should appeal to those self-proclaimed hard workers, the Tea Party.