Caritas In Veritate

A beginner's Guide to Freedom ^ | July 13, 2009 | Stephen Smith

[Misterioso]

President Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI last week at the Vatican. During the meeting, the Pope provided the president with a copy of his new encyclical letter, Caritas In Veritate. Most of the press coverage has focused on the pro-life elements of the treatise and the obvious disagreements between the Church and President Obama over issues such as abortion and embryonic stem-cell research. But it should be noted that the Pope’s encyclical dedicates as much (if not more) time to the issues of globalization and the current economic crisis, and in this respect the Pope and the President are like two peas in a pod. Both demonstrate the same profound ignorance of basic economics, and both prescribe bigger, more powerful government as the cure for what ails us.

[Misterioso]

This is the viewpoint of an Objectivist.

[Coleus]

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