America Land of Opportunity or Land of inequality

The dictionary’s definition of inequality is as followed the condition of being unequal; lack of equality; disparity. When people think of inequality they immediately go to race and ethnicity but there is more to inequality then just race and ethnicity. In America we are surrounded by inequality. In 2007 46 million Americans did not have health insurance. Can someone tell me why 18 percent of the riches country’s people don’t have health insurance? In some places we can’t even walk down the street without seeing a homeless person. Why does the riches country in the world have on any given night anywhere from 700,000 to two million homeless people? We have schools that don’t have the resources needed for students to achieve a proper education. These problems are because of the growing inequalities that are rampant throughout our society. Why do we have inequality? Where does inequality come from? If you go all the way back to start of our country, inequality was present. Racial inequality was rampant through the slave trade and inequality was the foundation of our society??? In Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the constitution, it was written that slaves would be freed. This obviously didn’t happen because the other leaders were opposed to letting their labor go because of the economic strains it would put them in. Those leaders didn’t think about the slaves. They thought about themselves. We in America are selfish and we only do things in the best interest of ourselves. These leaders had the chance to nip racial inequality in the butt early but because of the innate selfishness that we are born with they couldn’t do what was right. They couldn’t do it because it wasn’t in their best interest and in this case the only interest that matters is the one who is power. We were destined for inequality before any of us were even born. Inequality is almost in our blood because we are American. We are socialized growing up that inequality is the norm here in America. Whether that be because we are looking at the disparity of resources allocated to schools or looking at how many people can afford quality healthcare inequality has been socialized to be the norm in our society. In this country we often hear people say life isn’t fair. When someone says that common phrase to me I reply with a simple why. Why can’t life be fair? Life can’t be fair because we are rationalizing with the realization that we have been socialized to think inequality is acceptable. Inequality is not acceptable and it never will be acceptable in my book. Inequality is a direct effect of greediness and selfishness and until we can no longer put ourselves first inequality will be prevalent in our society.

Greediness
Greediness is almost synonymous with the word American. The dictionary’s definition of the word greediness is as followed: excessively desirous of acquiring or possessing, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves. In America you can walk into a bank and see about four huge 42 inch flat screen TVs plastered around the bank. Why are they there? Why do they need those TVs in a Bank? Who is watching it? I know when I go into the bank I go there to deposit money or take money out and leave. I don’t go to a bank to watch TV. It’s ludicrous for them to spend that type of money on just a TV when we have people with no healthcare and schools with outdated books. This is inequality at its best folks. These major corporations throw million dollar parties for CEO’s with shareholder’s money. That is inequality at its best. I’m arguing for the little guy who put his hard earned money in some stock and loses it because the CEO gambled with their life savings. In America we have our priorities set wrong. We tend to be “show me” people. “Show me” meaning show me how big your house is, show me how much your car is, and show me how big your TV is compared to mines. We don’t need these huge houses, fancy cars, and big TVs. What we need is to stop our greedy gluttonous ways in order to invoke change. We need healthcare reform, we need education reform, and we need inequality to go away. When there is greediness there is inequality. Where there is inequality there is disparity. Where there is disparity then no one should be able to sleep at night. Greediness is the reason we are in this economic meltdown in the first place and until we all band together for change we will continue in a downward spiral to economic misery. We can change our greedy ways but it will take time and a lot effort on the part of everybody. We can’t sit here and expect the government to do everything for us. We need to tell the government what we the people want. The government gets it power because its people give it power. It is now time that we the people start to use our power for the greater good of the society. Greed is all around us from dirty politics to the outsourcing of many of our jobs. We need to take back politics and our jobs. We need to impose sanctions on businesses that outsource jobs. Outsourcing of jobs is despicable in all sense of the word. It is a direct slap to the face to the American people and to the people they are outsourcing the jobs to. We need to feed our families before we outsource and feed other peoples families. We have people here in America who are in need of jobs. We need to go away from the notion that money makes the world go round. Money does not make the world go round we allow money to change us into greedy selfish malevolent people. I understand that we live in America where one should be able to make as much money as they can without government interference but we need to go away from that notion and take a little cut in order to help all of society. We all can be financially empowered but the only way that can happen is if greediness is not present. Inequality can be fixed but in order for it to be fixed we will need to sacrifice some of the liberties we enjoy here in America.