Quote Originally Posted by MrSplitshot View Post
I get what you're saying...greed probably isn't quite the right word. The principle of buying more than you really need is what I'm trying to convey. I don't really consider myself greedy, but I do consider myself to have much more expensive stuff than I really need. The older I get, the more I feel like those things that I've just GOT to have really aren't worth the price you pay...none of it amounts to a hill of beans when it comes to what is really important in life.

I feel hypocritical to bitch about the price of gas, when nobody grabbed me by the arm and drug me down to the Ford dealership, gun to my head, and forced me to sign on for 60 monthly payments on one of the most fuel inefficient rides on the lot...I just HAD to have it...knowing full well that it would bend me over at the gas pump every week.

DUMB, maybe that's the word I'm looking for....LOL....
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We all have the desire to better ourselves as in a more modern home, newer truck, better boat, improve our income and numerous other things ...A while back union members were being chastised for ruining the country with their greed ...That seems to be a quality we all share but when folks seemingly "have everything that money can buy" so to speak and they still see fit to squeeze the American economy, even at the risk of pushing the country deeper into recession then it seems to me that takes on a different meaning on the "greed scale" ...A while back we were ranting about a certain leader of a certain middle eastern country that had golden wash basins in his personal residence while others in his country were in a constant struggle to survive ...Surely we as a country are better than that.