Greed Is Good

Our country is currently going through extremely tough times. In the last eighteen months, the US has gone into a real estate meltdown. The unemployment rate has reached its highest point since The Great Depression, and China seems to be the perennial favorite in all aspects of the global market. All of this seemly bad news conjures up thoughts of some new direction that our country seems to have gone down. Wrong. We’ve all heard the phrase, “how soon we forget”, and our countries predicament is a prime example of this. I just watched a select few scenes from the classic Wall Street; you know the one with Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas, written by Oliver Stone and shot in nineteen eighty-five. There was lots of big hair and tons of art deco, but what many people might miss, is the striking similarity between how things were in nineteen eighty-five, and how they are now in two thousand and nine.
How soon we forget. Greed has been responsible for most of our countries short-comings. Greed, single handedly thrust our country into The Great Depression via the stock market. While everybody was busy pointing their fingers at who caused the collapse, greed was busy plotting up the next attack. We are now currently living through greed’s latest attack on our countries economy. Do we not learn as a country? The answer is no. We remember, but we never seem to get it right.
There is a perfectly good explanation for our countries reliance on greed. It’s called The American Dream, and we all want a piece of it. Part of The American Dream's rules, are that the best man wins, or in Wall Street’s case, the most despicable, cold-hearted individual we can find to invest our money, and line our pockets with labor less money is the man we want running our country’s biggest businesses. It’s that simple people. Greed is forever woven into the fabric of our country, and greed, will be the catalyst that brings our country out of the ruins.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings greed to sign Brett Farve will undoubtedly cost them a shot at anything this season, and for this reason, Brett Farve has unanimously beat out all others for the coveted Whack-a-Doll. Once he throws an interception, simply take out the included five pound football shaped weight, and smash it against the Hall-of-Famer. At least you’ll gain a little enjoyment out Brett ruining your day.