[singing] Louie the 16th was the king of France in 1789; he was worse than Louie the 15th, he was worse than Louie the 14th, he was worse than Louie the 13th, he was the worst, since Louie the first.
Posted on 01/12/2016 5:30:29 AM PST by stars & stripes forever
It is what many a misguided soul calls, "The pursuit of happiness."
Well said.
“I still believe Catholic Monarchy is the way to go.”
Catholicism running a nation? I give you Mexico and Italy. No thanks.
The Pope is a huge believer in big government, globull warming, redistribution of wealth, and is very contemptuous of free market capitalism.
The guy is from Argentina, the land alternated from banana republic to socialist cesspit. You really expect a cleric from there to be spouting Hayek and Von Mises?
The guy is not anticapitalist, even though his words might irritate Anglo-Saxons who take their economic and political stability for granted. The Kirchners hate the guy and the fact he got elevated to Pope. They’re the couple who have ran Argentina into the ground (husband is now dead).
Nope—It was King Charles I of England who was beheaded first.
The fact that he is from Argentina, he should know what a big failure crony socialism is.
I don’t entirely understand your comment about irritating “Anglo Saxons”-—I guess that would include me since many of my ancestors came from England centuries ago.
The Pope’s comments do in fact irritate conservatives, especially those of us deeply committed to the principles of our Founding Fathers-—that is a strong belief in a limited government constitutional republic where individual liberty and private property are protected and free market capitalism strongly protected and encouraged.
The point is, if you’re coming from a Latin American nation where Capitalism is synonymous with cronyism, then your rhetoic is going to be different.
However you’re just going to keep saying he’s a socialist, so why bother.
He gets forgotten a lot. Irony is Louis XVI had a somewhat morbid obsession with him and his execution.
My ORIGINAL comment was directed to Cuban Leaf who suggested Catholic Monarchy was better.
He is right about one thing: Catholic Monarchy is VASTLY preferable the evil mob rule which drowned France in an ocean of blood and severed heads during the French Revolution.
I would not, however, consider Catholic Monarchy as the ideal form of government. I believe the model developed by our Founding Fathers, limited government constitutional republic, is by far, the most superior form of government ever devised. Democracy is basically mob rule.
Well, that we can agree on. ;)
But te food and wine and women are good
Mexico has always been run by Freemasons and Commies.
[singing] Louie the 16th was the king of France in 1789; he was worse than Louie the 15th, he was worse than Louie the 14th, he was worse than Louie the 13th, he was the worst, since Louie the first.
That is funny. did you mean it to be so?
But then what else can we expect from a king in silk stockings and pink satin pants? :-)
I do not dispute the fact that the French had every right to throw off Monarchy and form a new government. I do dispute the idea that the French somehow were justified in the murder of innocent women and children whose only crime was being born noble. Robespierre was a vile human being. He was against the government killing people through execution unless it somehow benefitted him. He deserved what he got.
“I still believe Catholic Monarchy is the way to go.”
Hm. There is a reason that our Founders opposed the formation of State religions. I believe they were correct in their assessments.
Years ago an American friend who was married to an Argentinian woman and had lived there for a number of years told me this story. He said that Argentinians would say, “Well if we were big as the US, we could could have as great an economy as the US.” My friend would always say, “Well, why don’t you try to be as great as Sweden?” Actually Sweden has a government sometimes described as Democratic Socialism. This is the form that Bernie Sanders says he favors, not the dictatorial Soviet variety. Swedes and Danes seem to have a national consensus that they don’t like to see people EXTREMELY rich, while others sleep on the streets. In the US in the 1950s and 60s, the disparity between workers wages and CEO wages was about 40 to 1. Now it is more like 400 or even 1,000 to 1. Would we be better off with ratios like in the 1950s?
No, we wouldn’t. There is no role for the gov’t to play Handicapper General, and it’s no one’s business how much someone makes unless they’re gubmint stooges, in which case, I and every other taxpayer has every right to know their wages.
People sleep in the streets by choice, because they can’t be bothered with filling out one Monthly Reporting Form. Here in GR — a city of about a quarter million people — a few tenths of a percent (mostly male) are on food assistance (EBT cards are called “Bridge Cards” here), which is much easier to qualify for, but there is a load of food available basically for free at various well-known and frequented places in the downtown area known as “Heartside”.
Argentina has always always always gone the way of Sweden, which is exactly why they don’t have an economy like the US’.
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