“Greed Is Good”
How greedy do you need to be in order to achieve happiness? Do you have to have everything that you desire and in doing so effect countless lives in the world around you? There have been past and recent events that have put this country’s financial health in a serious crisis. The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme bankrupted thousands of people, 65 billion dollars that went to his company by fraudulent claims. Money that comes from people who work hard for the money to invest in hopes that they too will have a better future than the present lives they live now. It’s not like Madoff was starving or was homeless, he had a decent life. Only one can wonder what was it that possessed him to commit the most infamous financial crime in America’s history, or was it greed. Greed is good to a certain extent, but when it can turn society upside down and into the brink of chaos, then one must question the motive and the outcome for pursuing such a great prize of wealth. Madoff is now serving a 150 year sentence for all the crimes he has committed and now has to face the reality that he used to live in the most elaborate conditions and is now living in a jail cell. We the people feel the effect of greed, the current bailout package for the most recent crisis is in the billions of dollars and the average tax payer gets to pay the bill. Greed is good if you’re a selfish bastard who likes to make money off of putting people out in the street.
On another note, if I was to make a whack doll out of anybody… I would make a whack doll out of Al Davis the owner of the Oakland Raiders. He lives in the past and is taking the Raiders with him!