Too much money, not enough heart?

There are many things I do not understand. Like why we pay our military so crappy and yet we pay those who work for companies that "help" the military so well. I'm not talking those who provide services to them on-base; they're paid even worse than their civilian counterparts, trust me. I'm talking companies like Halliburton. In Sunday's newspaper in the "Parade" insert, the front cover shows what appears to be a random list of people and how much they make. One person from Halliburton is in the millions of dollars yet a staff sergeant in the military doesn't even make $50,000. What the hell is up with that? That staff sergeant has probably been in for close to ten years and that's all we give him to say thank you? That, in my opinion, is bulls***!
There are quite a few professions I think are quite underpaid: teachers, good cops and firefighters, our fighting men and women, those in the retail industry (if you've ever worked at a grocery store, convenience store, or fast food restaurant, you know WHY I say that), and others. However, there are even more that are grossly overpaid: corporate CEO's (especially ones of failing companies), hollywood actors and actresses, sports players, politicians in most cases... I think anyone making over $2 million a year is probably being overpaid unless they've worked their rear end off for it. Kinda like Bill Gates. Like his stuff or not, he invented the stuff, marketed it, sold it, and then kept working on it. And now that he HAS all that money, instead of hogging all of it, he gives a LOT of it away. That's the way it should be. It's like my Mom said, "You can't take it with you when you go." So there's no sense in hogging it all.
So where do we go from here? Should we tax the heck out of the rich to give to the poor? I don't know; and even if we did, I'm not sure it would work. Maybe if enough of us stand up and demand accountability, something will change voluntarily. I'm not holding my breath though.