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Greed affects infrastructure

GUEST OPINION


After writing about how the ‘military-industrial complex’ lobbies our lawmakers to assign massive amounts of money to the military budget leading to the neglect of our deteriorating infrastructure, I concluded we can attribute the skewed fiscal priorities of our government to greed.
But what is greed? For an objective understanding, let’s dispense with the negative connotations of avarice and moral corruption.
According to the dictionary definition of greed, anyone who has the basic needs covere...

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