Going Grey

The course of life is dependant on the decisions a person makes, whether to trust or mistrust a person can be one of the most crucial decisions a person will make in his lifetime. Andy Rooney has made the assertion that our society can, and would not exist without unwritten contracts of trust between the people that make up our country. He states that there are contracts of trust in all aspects of society; this statement could be true, if Mr. Rooney had stated it fifty years ago. In this modern age, it has been proven repeatedly that the people who were once trusted can no longer be trusted. Mr. Rooney’s assertion of those unwritten contracts is now outdated; those contracts of trust continue to be broken in today’s society, leading to distrust among these groups of people.
It is true of course, that America’s economic success can be chiefly attributed to our large corporations and the success of the stock market and that trust relationships were what the stock market was founde...