The serving of the common good.

I think it’s all right not to covet money. To just want the basics in life. Good health. Good education. A job that gets one by. Especially, if one enjoys his work. Thinks of it as a pleasure. Or a hobby. I want a society in which all of this is possible. One doesn’t have to be monetarily rich. To afford the basics of life. Maybe because the government provides socialized medicine. Good public schools. Social security to tide one over in retirement. Maybe even subsidized housing. Where one pays what one can afford. To me, that’s a form of the good life. One doesn’t have to live monetarily rich to be happy. One just needs the basics. With a little extra insurance. In the form of entitlement programs for the less fortunate. Paid for by a collective society as a whole. Really, it’s a way to distribute the wealth in a humane and kindly and effective way. The serving of the common good. –Jim Broede