Posted on 12/31/2013 3:35:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
do you know of any brilliant economists or democratic governmental leaders from Argentina???....you still don’t
Pre-or-post World War II?
look at Argentine....either
They were headed towards being at least a regional superpower, if not a minor world power until Peron took over. They have steadily declined ever since.
Maybe the time has come for some of these Catholic leaders (who, like the Pope, are more focused on social justice issues and socialism than the actual worship of God), to be willing to give up their comfortable digs here in America and in other countries throughout the world and possibly do reach-outs to the poor in cities and the poor in third world countries.
Maybe they should also explore selling some of the church’s artifacts. Some of its land? Just a thought. The Church, after all, encourages “we the people” to support their social justice issues through hard work and sacrifice.
Maybe they need to become more generous themselves and have lesser expectations of us.
The economy might be improving here in the US, but we aren’t there yet.
Many of us are still working two jobs, delaying marriage, delaying home ownership and delaying having families.....and we are what is left of the middle class.
PFL
January 7, 2014
According to economist Thomas Sowell If there is ever a contest for the biggest lie, the trickle-down lie would be a top contender.
there have been all too many lies told in politics, most have some little tiny fraction of truth in them, to make them seem plausible. But the "trickle-down" lie is 100 percent lie.
It should win the contest both because of its purity no contaminating speck of truth and because of how many people have repeated it over the years, without any evidence being asked for or given.
Years ago, this column challenged anybody to quote any economist outside of an insane asylum who had ever advocated this "trickle-down" theory. Some readers said that somebody said that somebody else had advocated a trickle-down policy. But they could never name that somebody else and quote them.
The trickle-down theory cannot be found in even the most voluminous scholarly studies of economic theories including J.A. Schumpeter's monumental "History of Economic Analysis," more than a thousand pages long and printed in very small type.
Yet none of those who denounce a trickle-down theory can quote anybody who actually advocated it.
Professor Sowell: The time is long overdue for people to ask themselves why it is necessary for those on the left to make up a lie if what they believe in is true.
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