For the Love of Money

For the love of money is the root of all evil. This is a phrase that's commonly known to most Americans, yet so many of us have lost our way. For some of us, we've decided that money supplants goodness, that money supplants community, and that power power associated with having money is so worthy and so valuable that it supersedes all of our other desires.

You can see some of these people right now in the halls of Congress. If you can't find a law or an act that somebody has supported that benefits the actual American people and builds up the communities in which we live, by a particular representative for senator, then you have identified someone who places power and money above you. It doesn't matter what they say, it doesn't matter how clean-cut they look, and it definitely doesn't matter whether they look like you. it doesn't even matter, not at all, that you hate the same people.

The fact is, if you're putting money and power above everything else, then inevitably, greed and avirice grow to devalue everything that Americans hold dear. We're not a nation founded on greed. We are a nation founded on the concept of human equality and community. That's why the general welfare is mentioned in our constitution—not corporate welfare.

If you want to learn more about America as it really is, the American people who live in it, and the communities we’re trying to protect to build a stronger nation, then this is the podcast episode for you.