"People love to attack those who have been rewarded in life with a salary fitting the job they do. I call it jealousy. How are companies expected to hire the right people if they don't reward them financially ?"

But, Bluesman, companies (like banks, for example) don't seem to have been hiring the "right people", do they? Because, if they had, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now, would we? In addition the more the incompetents at the top are rewarded, the worse the situation seems to get.

You want to punish the poor for their poverty (come on, admit it!). But the real reason they are poor is because the rich are selfishly 'trousering' as much wealth as possible rather than creating real jobs for everyone else; it suits them to allow the poor to languish on welfare. The attention of snobs like you is easily diverted by hysteria about 'welfare dependency' and while you and your fellow 'Torygraph' readers rant and rave the rich are free to plunder the planet and rob you, and everyone else, blind!