Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What is "greed"?

Daily Kos is apparently accusing Democrat Senators who voted against a "public option" for health insurance as "greedy." Which got me to thinking:

To the left, "greed" is the desire to keep one's own property and/or the desire to create more wealth. Apparently, "greed" is also the absence of the desire to take property from one American and give it to another American to whom it does not belong. This is not greed. Greed is the desire to obtain another's property without paying for it what the owner/creator will freely accept.

Properly understood, greed only exists on the left. Conservatives should level the "greed" charge at liberals every time they propose a government program to take money from one American and give it to another American to whom it does not belong.

Liberals will respond: "We can't be greedy because we aren't taking the money for ourselves. We're giving it to the poor, oppressed, underprivileged, etc." Yea yea. Who gets paid to do the transferring? Isn't that just like a "commission" like those "greedy" traders on Wall Street charge?