Shame On You, America! Your Greed Is Destroying You.

There are some days when I think of the country I live in and I want to cry...or escape. Then there are times (which are becoming few and far between) that I'm proud of the country I live in. I'm most ashamed of the extensive and far-reaching greed of our government. It's so deeply rooted, there seems to be no way of defeating it.

1. The Mayflower landing on Plymouth rock and horrifically confiscating land inhabited by others. Greed!
2. Turning indentured servants into bondage slaves for the sake of improving your own quality of life. Greed!
3. The REAL reason behind you agreeing with suffrage was because the families in power (who heavily influenced the government) deduced that allowing women to work meant more taxes collected for the government. Greed!
4. Being underpaid just because you are a minority or female. Greed!
5. Monopolizing the hair industry by not distributing goods to the minority hair care businesses of the very people you're selling to. Greed!
6. Church leaders in million dollar mansions and learjets while their congregation is struggling from paycheck to paycheck.
7. Selling athletic shoes at a 300% markup and your largest demographic happens to be minorities. Greed!
8. Destroying the manufacturing industry in the United States to move outside of the United States for cheaper labor. Greed!
9. The government creating wars for financial gain. Greed!

The list could go on forever and it's sad that greed has permeated every single part of our lives. Just the other day I heard of a middle-income person taking advantage of a low-income assistance program to pay one of their utility bills, just because they overspent on Christmas.

What we all seem to be lacking is the opposite of greed...honesty and integrity. May God have mercy on our souls.