Am I greedy?
I want to live comfortably, to not have to worry about money to pay for my life style. I don’t live excessively, in my mind. If I had more money would I spend more? You bet I would. I earned 10 times what I do now and I spent every bit of it. I was 20 times more in debt. So am I greedy? What is greed. Everyone seems to know what it is but it is subject to the position of the everyone. Here is what Wikipedia says:
Greed (also called avarice) in psychology is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth.[1]
How much do we need, how much do we deserve. New question? I googled it and got thousands of hits but no definitive answer. So Greed is completely subjective. I have discussed equality and found that it is a myth. I have had people in my own family tell me that I had it easy compared to them. They assumed wrongly that my father was helping me with my finances. No evidence, they just were sure. People do that generally. They see their life as drudgery while the rest of the world has it made. No facts are required to have these emotional notions. Where my relative sat in front of the TV drinking beer, I worked into the night on a house I built. They still hate me. But I live on a fraction of their earnings.
The Obama Administration, Barry included, calls the banking executives greedy, Wallstreet, Industry, Manufacturing greedy yet He and almost all of his Democrat cohorts are Lawyers and Millionaires. Barry never worked at a job that made anything, he can’t even account for how he got his millions. Deals with criminals? contributions from people he won’t identify. It is all hidden. Does he deserve his millions? Does he need his millions? Is he the one person in this world who decides who deserves and needs what, or does he represent the very definition of Greed. He takes money from the people who don’t support him and gives it to the people who do and they give money to him. His jig is up. He won’t serve a second term, but he will be paid for the rest of his life for being president. Another thing he doesn’t deserve. Unlike all the people he calls greedy who earned there pensions by a life time of achievement.
Everyone knows the executives at Enron were greedy. Thousands of people lost their life’s savings because of their acti0ns. Or did they. The stock holders who held Enron ignored the basic rule of investments. “Diversify”. They didn’t, they held Enron stock exclusively. Why? It was high return stock and made lots of money. Greed made them want to have more and more of Enron. That made the impact so severe. They wanted what the Executives had.
I think I am greedy. I don’t know if that is good or bad. I want all I can get for me and for my fellow man. Taking things from one person and giving them to another doesn’t create anything. No one gains. The world suffers for it, and it is stupid. In fact everything we have and know and love is the product of someone’s Greed. The Whole world flocks to our borders to live in the land where greed can be applied and realized. The rest suffer. Greed is good. All the people who advocate distribution of wealth mean, your wealth, not their wealth. Obama could donate to his family who live in poverty but doesn’t If people want to distribute wealth they are perfectly capable of distributing their own. All those Millionaires in Obama’s administration. they can sit down and right a check. In fact the whole Democratic party can. They have the wealth. What is stopping them. Greed?
Don’t get me wrong I am all in favor of helping people who are down on their luck. Having the government do it in our name, is like throwing 90 cents of every dollar in the toilet and giving what is left to the down trodden then telling them they have the government to thank for it. Our name is never mentioned, as if the government earned its own money or invested it and earned interest or dividends where did they get it? From us at gunpoint.
The government didn’t bail out GM we did. Yet the Unions who are the problem in the first place give their allegiance to Obama. Well he did bend the rules and exempt them from joining in on the shared sacrifice the rest of us are expected to pay. GM should have gone under. The management was at fault for not standing up to accessive regulation and Union demands. Saying it was too important to fail? I don’t buy that. This country is too important to fail. Throwing trillions at failed industries to save unions is in no one’s interest accept the Unions and their political allies. If you read about the early days of communist Russia, Unions and the party were almost the same thing. Looks like the unions are greedy to me the market wouldn’t pay what they demanded felt they didn’t deserve it. The competitors who did not demands it thrived so looks like they didn’t need it either. The Government has squandered trillions of dollars and accomplished nothing. They don’t deserve it our money. They have so much of our money they can’t keep track of it. They don’t need it. But the federal and to a lesser degree the state and local governments are not Greedy, they are Preditory
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