Simone Cherie Perry: Re-Defining Greed for the Left
By HHR | March 6th, 2011 | Category: Featured, Opinion/Reviews | 1 Comment »
Namely, because greed speaks to a desire, the desire of an individual to wish and hope for something beyond what they already have. Whether beyond the means of one’s parents, beyond the realm of one’s own personal achievements and the like. All significant pieces of legislation and indeed political movements in American history, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, Executive Order 8802, The New Deal, Women’s Rights and the push for universal suffrage and more stemmed from this very desire, the desire to attain more.
A kneejerk reaction to the previous sentence might force one to differentiate those articles from policy closely associated with greed. One might suggest those movements like the Civil Rights movement for the vote and the Dream Act to educate children of illegal aliens are all needed legislation, just legislation to undo the injustice existing at the time. They would assert it is not excessive, but necessary and perhaps even minimally so.





