People Are Greedy Lunatic Pigs

There is no other answer. And it is infectious. (No wonder Zombie movies do so well.)

Somehow, our grabby gene is really big.

Georgie W. really wanted all that oil under Iraq. He wanted it so bad. His friends wanted it. Dick Cheney demanded it. What a greedy push.

Corporations, in an effort to max-max-maximize their profits (okay, I know, that’s what they’re supposed to do)---hired the cheapest employees they could find, sending the customer service and manufacturing jobs far, far away.

Any loose cash that was left was Hoovered up the chain of command.

And now---look at us.

I say lunatic, because it is a madness. Anyone with any sense of math knew this setup-mess was unsustainable. Why did we let it happen? Because we are greedy, lunatic pigs.

We are not to be condemned for our avaricious, insane, porcine ways. We are to be forgiven. But we also have to learn how we went wrong. With a cold eye and a warm heart.
(And a flat nose and a curly tail).