The new generation of transnational corporate welfare bums spend a good part of their time offshoring and hiding their wealth from the tax man.  

Canadian corporations are now sitting on a .6 trillion dollar slush fund while the US has a 3.4 trillion dollar fund which they are unwilling to invest back into their respective economies. According to the IMF Canadian corporations are accumulating "dead money" faster than in any other G7 country.

Joseph Stiglitz one of the world’s most eminent economists (former head of the World Bank , winner of the Nobel Prize 2001) has written profusely on the global plague of inequality and one of the most important points he makes is: “Widening and deepening inequality is not driven by immutable economic laws, but by laws we have written ourselves.”

The world's citizens must demand change  We now need our politicians to wake up and address this dangerous concentration of wealth and power in the hands of so few.