Elections & Public Integrity
You might be a progressive if…
…you see nothing ironic about Bernie Sanders telling a group of young people who support him because he is promising them free college, that greed is destroying America.
Greed
insatiable longing for material gain
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Slowness
As I attempt to get in touch with what I hate so much about local government meetings . . . It just dawned on me, waxing eschatological, that greed and…
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A wonderful quote
I just rediscovered this great quote from the late Joseph Sobran, controversial pundit and National Review editor until he was canned for allegedly having anti-semitic views, although I have heard…
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G’boro mayor-elect on greed
Yet another can’t believe my eyes moment. I’m just passing along what Inside Scoop is reporting: The soon-to-be-mayor Robbie Perkins will chat on the topic of greed at Triad Stage…
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Greed and altruism in the eyes of a progressive
Greed is making lots of money by providing goods and services that other people want. Altruism is the desire to coercively transfer what the greedy have received to to those…
Regulation
Capitalism is not the villain, but government is
Over the past couple of weeks Americans have witnessed a protest called Occupy Wall Street go rampant throughout the nation. These protests are relatively unorganized and protestors have different reasons…
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Proverbially Blinded by Greed
I am sympathetic toward the following “GOP New Preamble” published on ashevilleprogressive.com: The GOP new preamble: We the corporations of the United States, in order to form a more profitable…
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The trope that market advocates are greedy
One of those tropes that leftists automatically agree with is that anyone who wants to downsize the interventionist state does so because of his greed. The doltish pseudo-economist Jeff Madrick…
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Let’s blame greed!
Thomas Sowell’s column today refutes the politically facile contention that the housing mess was due to greed. Instead, government policy made by politicians who were eager to appear generous and…
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Cal Thomas: We Used to Call This Greed
In this blog posting, columnist Cal Thomas provides a welcome reality check about the source of the housing/credit problem. Thomas is the featured speaker at the Locke Foundation’s Oct. 22…
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Greedy and dumb
They’d have been better off hoarding pennies.
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“Need” and “Greed”
Professor Gary Galles of Pepperdine University has written a sharp essay on the contemporary political meanings of “need” and “greed.” It’s well worth reading here.