Greed

The left likes to characterize capitalism as greedy. They often point to the famous quote by the fictional character Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street as an encapsulation of the capitalist system.

“Greed is good.”

But as WLAP radio host Leland Conway has said on more than one occasion, greed resides in the hearts of people, not in the structure of any economic system. Greed rears its head in government and liberal institutions in the same way it does in the free market.

The liberal mind conjures up images of redistributing wealth in order to make things “fair”. But what is fairness? How much does one take from the haves and give to the have-nots to achieve this notion of fairness?

I don’t think it really has to do with fairness. It comes down to wanting to take possession of what another has. It becomes a source of power, and greed lies at its core.

Liberals decry the “rich” as greedy. Yet these same people want to control what the rich man possesses. They excuse it through the seemingly noble intent of giving it to others, but it represents a form of greed none-the-less. And those who receive the benefit of redistributed wealth? They exemplify greed just the same. They want to take what the rich man owns for themselves.

The liberal wields power over both – in the taking from the one and in making the other dependent on his handouts. The liberal possesses an appetite, a greed if you will - for power. And he stokes the poor man’s greed for the rich man’s possessions to accumulate his own power over both.

How is this any less greedy than the rich man wanting to keep what he already has?

At least the rich man earned it.