The Twinky Wins

The internet is a fabulous thing.  It enables us to find out just how dis-satisfied people are with multi-million dollar agreements.  In the days of no internet, these suffering people would have little outlet for their anguished cries for satisfaction.

While we unwashed masses manage to get by on $200.00 weekly or less (most times much, much less) unemployment payments and $1,000.00 monthly or less Social Security payments, the poor Harvard graduates with their team of lawyers seem unable to live with $20,000,000.00.  It is, after all, not the money.  Goodness, NO.  It is the principle of the thing.  Of course it is.
  
Perhaps, the lawsuit should include Harvard for not endowing these youngsters with a smattering of common sense.  Maybe, that team of lawyers was no smarter than they were.  I have found that most lawyers are not any smarter, they just stuck it out for the degree hanging on their wall.  They managed to pass their bar exam and receive their license to practice law.  This does not mean they have common sense.

The Twinky Wins is a spoonerism of The Winky Twins.  The Associated Press reported Monday April 11, 2011, 7:06 pm EDT this headline regarding the Winklevoss Twins -

"Court: Harvard twins stuck with Facebook agreement"

Alas and alack!  According to the article they are stuck with $20,000,000.00 as opposed to the $160,000,000.00 that they found out later it maybe should have been worth to them.

I was deeply moved by their plight.  Imagine, paying that much for lawyers and a Harvard education and still not have any common sense.  

Well, they are now trying to decide whether or not to take the case to the Supreme Court.  As it should be.  They must use every means available to them to get their just desserts.  After all, it is $140,000,000.00 more that they are trying to get.  Imagine the nerve of their former buddies trying to keep all that money away from the Twins.  Such a shame.

There have been moments in my life when I have wondered what I would do if I had suddenly come into a substantial amount of money and I do not recall one of the things being trying to sue for more.  Perhaps it was.

Scripture tells us to be content with whatever conditions we find ourselves in.  Are we content?  It is in my nature to want more.  But it has always been my desire to work for what I have gotten.  When that ability was savagely ripped away from me, I found it difficult to deal with and understood why people resorted to lawsuits.  Sometimes, it just has to be done.  Sometimes businesses and other people do what is wrong and the only recourse is through the legal system. There is a provision for that in Scripture as well.

As a people and as a nation, we have gotten greedy.  Everything seems to promote greed while diminishing the value of winning by doing one's best.  Commercials do everything to instill greed in us and we sit and soak it in.  The government diminishes the will to do and promotes the will to get.  After all, are we not entitled to it?

Scripture says that if we are able bodied and we do not work, we do not eat.  Whatever happened to that idea?  Did it go by the wayside due to the economy or did that idea start to vanish years ago with the New Deal?

Shalom.  Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.