The Wall Street GOP is happy if the rich get richer and the poor have the Gospel preached to them. The Pope would like an economic system that would have fewer poor.
So capitalism makes people poor?
Populist Poppycock.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you God, for the mountain of blessings that just keep coming. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Nice quote. Why don't you give attribution.
The Pope would like an economic system that would have fewer poor.
Name one. And fewer than whom.
How odd, that the mystical Wall Street GOP so richly supports liberal politicians of a socialistic bent.
An economic system that encourages conversion of nature’s store of material resources into useful goods and services through private enterprise, thereby creating real wealth and providing remunerative employment for those willing and able to work, would be a good thing.
Dinesh D’souza tells of a fellow Indian native who told him he wanted to come to America because “I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.”Tell the pope that if he actually wants fewer poor - not fewer “poor,” but actually fewer poor - he should learn of the history of American development. It is not a mere matter of the blessings of land and minerals and water, but crucially it is a matter of freedom - and thus, a matter of capitalism.
Tell the pope that capitalism is consistent with “the least expense and greatest benefit.” Socialism, OTOH, is consistent with moral posturing and inconsistent with prosperity for the preponderance of the people.Common Sense SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
BTW, Margaret Thatcher was right - the Good Samaritan had money - and good credit, too. It is not his poverty but his generosity for which he is known. Socialism is the enemy of generosity because it is the enemy of gratitude first. Happy Thanksgiving!
It has been my experience that people who say God is Love really mean Love is God.