Money is a lure that can make us do crazy things. It can change our lives and affect how we live, work, and play.

 

How far will we go to become rich? Envision . . .

 

 

The Power Of Money: Dream Or Reality?

                                                                         

“Dollar bills! Dollar bills!” someone screamed.

         Dropping from the sky—floating through the air.

         Caressed by the wind—wisped in magical patterns.

         I couldn’t believe my eyes.

But then movement—people became crazy.

         Running and screaming,

         they grabbed for the falling wealth—

         reckless—out of control.

         Those who fell—trampled.

Then it became weird. The bills started climbing up the bodies.

         They seemed alive, on a mission, . . . a very deadly mission.

         They traveled from feet and hands toward the face.

         They covered both the nose and mouth of the foragers,

         leaving dead bodies everywhere.

My eyes focused on an astonishing phenomenon.

         Emerging from the main entrance

         of the Central Valley Savings and Loan

         were not patrons, but more bills—

         not ones, but fives, tens, twenties, fifties, and hundreds.

         All stood upright and marched

         like a “legion of powerful gods.”

Then the bank doors opened again.

         I trembled at the thought of what might emerge—

         more money draining out of a financial institution.

         But it wasn’t money.

Four men, dressed in bankers’ three-piece gray suits and striped ties,

         strutted onto the street.

         One waved a hundred dollar bill and proclaimed,

         “People can’t escape the hold money has on them.

         That’s why we, the bankers, are society’s masters.

         Just show me one person, who can’t be enticed by money,

         and I’ll . . .”

At that very moment, the hundred-dollar bill slithered out of his hand

         and landed over his nose and mouth.

         He gasped and fell to the ground.

Another hundred-dollar bill stood at attention in front of the masses,

         who had succumbed to the power of greed.

          Benjamin Franklin smiled and winked.  

And, as he has been quoted,

         “He that is of the opinion money will do everything,

         may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

 

 

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