Who Lives On Wall Street?
It’s easy to hate or love, hard to hide from and still the Grand Central Station of greed, selfishness and explosively inflated egos. It’s also a PG-13 rated film which glamorizes wealth while highlighting the; greed, revenge, cheating, lying, coercion, influence, power and extravagance used to attain it. Does that make the film bad, no of course not, the movie simply plays into the moral decay of our society. If this film is viewed objectively, it can be a powerful intro into another story currently being written, “The Rise and Fall of Capitalism and (at least) Western Civilization”.
Wall Street is even more powerful and self protective than the legislative and executive branches of government. No, Wall Street can’t publicly declare war, legislate give-away programs, create an impossible sovereign fiscal deficit, impose higher taxes, create a private bank that rules the world and then successfully blame others for their own creations. But … Wall Street can privately undermine the economy, steal our savings, impose fear, promote decadence, destroy lives without conscience, incite terrorism through global misunderstandings and somehow legally justify national and global financial rape while avoiding penalties (while in fact being rewarded). Wall Street (the place) is a good idea gone bad.
As a nation of people, we’ve allowed money to rule instead of God, captains of industry to become envied yet false idols and elected officials to create and benefit from the most exclusive, private, self serving sanctuaries on the planet, all on OUR tab.
We choose what to watch and buy, how to invest, whom to place our trust in and where to spend our time. WE CHOOSE these, nobody else, so who’s to blame? CHANGE is a matter of choice! Start now, accept responsibility, embrace change. VOTE AND MAKE MUCH better life choices and life investments.
JC Calkins with COMMON SENSE 4 UNCOMMON PEOPLE
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