GREED

Greed can drive people to do bad things. Greed has a powerful influence over our national penchant for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, particularly as it involves our fondness for money, food, love, power, and sex. The love of money can not only be harmful to oneself, but to others as well. Money rules our world. This planet revolves around money as sure as it revolves around the sun. If no one had …

…our right to exercise our freedom of speech through the ballot, electing responsible people to the offices which will determine, in large part, our futures. My conclusion is that greed exercised negatively usually results in negative outcomes --- sometimes resulting in forces that cannot be reckoned with. Such forces can affect billions of people at one time. Greed is often counter-productive; if, on the other hand we, as a society, could abolish greed, we might