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Uncle Joe

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5. Money is the gateway drug to all manner of evil.

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 02:33 PM

Mar 2012

Some people can use money responsibly but others become addicted to it and are consumed by greed, they become willing to sell out anyone for more currency.

They will wage wars, imprison their fellow citizens, lie, cheat, steal, kill and work to basically rape the Bill of Rights to feed their unquenchable habit.

Rabid greed for money usually progresses to wanton lust for power as a means to obtain more money and to protect their already vast accumulated sums of lucre.

Thanks for the thread, cleanhippie.

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