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Greed and Insanity on the "Streets": The Psychopaths Are Everywhere

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It is my impression that the psychopaths on the street were like the psychopathic Wall Street bankers who control far too much wealth and power.

Do the Tea Partiers support these wealthy in a perverted Christianity where greed is good? Do they think that their unbridled greed will get them cuts in line ahead of the poor to be awarded the very best accommodations Heaven can offer?

"But woe unto you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort."-Luke 6:24

The psychopaths also have all of the power in huge multi-national corporations. They are much more dangerous than the homeless people that I met on the street. They are war instigators and profiteers, environment-destroying and people-killing oil companies, thieving loan default investment bankers, heartless insurance company executives and more. They have stolen our government. They destroy our futures and our lives. They're putting more and more of us on the streets and most of these are families.Â

Isn't it utterly insane that the psychopaths in Wall Street banks and in giant international corporations get annual bonuses that are many times larger than most people earn in wages in their entire lifetimes?

Greed drives their lives. They act as if our growing poverty is not their fault. They think that it is their right as "superior" beings to do whatever they want to gain more and more wealth and power, destroying the middle class and creating more and more homeless and poor. They out-source jobs to China where the minimum wage may be as little as 43 cents an hour and insist that the sweat-shops produce goods for ever lower and lower costs, profitable to the sweat-shops only if they illegally pay workers as little as 22 cents an hour.

The psychopaths' greed was only marginally controlled on the street. The citizens of the street did not control them. The government faces of the street, the police, did little to control them. Therefore, they ruled.

Similar things can be said for the governments of and in the United States. The greed of the wealthy, the corporations, the banks, the wealthy senators and congressmen and the highest levels of the administration function for their own economic interests.

Isn't it time that we gained control?Â

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Jon Larsen is a retired educational psychologist and carpenter/contractor who lives in a small town in southern Arizona. He enjoys nature and being an amateur primatologist, playing tennis,golf and writing. He volunteers at the Food Bank, the (more...)
 
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