Money and power are puckish aphrodisiacs.
It seems the more one has, the more one wants.
Nowhere was the covetous need for money and power more prevalent than in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress and the executive suites of corporate America. Money and power were the rich man's Viagra: impotent CEOs who couldn't get it up in the bedroom were always able to make it hard for everyone in the Boardroom. Hollywood's lust for money allowed them to use any means possible - vulgarity, violence, murder - to turn a B-rated movie into a billion-dollar blockbuster. When Japanese baseball pro Daisuke Matsuzaka accepted $51.1 million just to let the Boston Red Sox 'negotiate' with him, it was seen as a sporting industry gone berserk. People who spilled hot coffee in their laps thought nothing of suing multi-national corporations for millions of dollars. The U.S.A. had more lawyers per capita than any other nation on Earth. Politicians, who claimed to be public 'servants', satiated themselves on outlandish six-figure salaries, extravagant 'perks' and benefits, and the best health and medical coverage in the world. Movie stars greedily grabbed upwards of twenty million dollars to make a picture that required less than six months out of their lives. Corporations, especially in certain industries, touted out profits in excess of $10 billion per quarter.
Meanwhile, the 'common' citizen suffered. Two working heads of households wasn't enough anymore. Nowadays, just to "make ends meet", many families saw both parents working multiple jobs or running home-based businesses on the side.
Low-incomed families often survived at poverty-scale wages.
'Success' was measured by the kind of car one drove, the number of houses one lived in, the value of one's stock portfolio and offshore investments, or the inventories of Armani suits, imported French wines, and valuable art treasures one stored or displayed. In the U.S. Congress there was an eclectic assortment of wife beaters; pedophiles; white collar criminals; lawyers; psychopaths; homosexuals; liars; adulterers; alcoholics; presecription-drug abusers; gambling addicts; rapists, and - if the truth be known - perhaps even a murderer or two.
You could verbally belittle your wife in public, beat your kids, seclude your aging parents in a distant institution where they would be left to die, or seduce your secretary. As long as you had power and money, it didn't matter much. "Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end........and, yes, one tin soldier walked away. "Honor" was a word tossed around like a rag doll. "Integrity" was replaced by "damage control". "Truth" became "spin". It didn't matter - as long as you had money and power.
It was this kind of inequality that O.U.T.R.A.G.E. wanted to combat. The concept was not to detract from free enterprise or the capitalistic economic system of the United States. The concept was to give more people more opportunity to share in the wealth. The O.U.T.R.A.G.E. revolution had exterminated most of the 'movers and shakers' in the public and private sectors, particularly those who squandered their prosperity, abused their power, or flaunted their good fortune.