BIG FAT HYPOCRISY

BIG”FAT “HYPOCRISY Friday, September 23, 2011 Edited: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Monetary obesity--non-circulating, entropic wealth--is akin to stored, white fatty tissue on the human body! While human corpulence is well documented and usually derided, monetary opulence is not. Instead, such wasted, unutilized economic capacity is praised, envied and coveted! Why is this? Is one any better than the other? Weight loss programs for personal fat assail the airwaves and print media in 24-hour cycles. Nothing of the sort, however, troubles monetary fat’s life of ease, idleness, and indolence. Society would be better served—indeed enriched—by getting the monetarily fat to disgorge much more of that money, than in getting the personally fat to lose some of that weight. Wealth redistribution benefits many. Losing excess pounds may only benefit the few weight-losers themselves. Maybe these fat-based sentiments are displaced. Then again, maybe they are not. Either way the contrasting public perceptions and approaches to this weighty issue strike me as a big fat hypocrisy!