[Aevery_Freeman]

...demands of distributive justice and social justice...

Same language used by Obama and the community organizers. Ayn Rand noticed the similarity between the looters (politicians) and the mystics (clergy). She hated the mystics more.

[DallasDeb]

An economy that answers both the demands of distributive justice and social justice must incorporate into its structure “internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust.”

There can be no justice in the distribution of wealth when so many of the hands that the wealth goes to are corrupt, as in the UN ministers, the leaders of most African nations, the Middle East, the IMF, etc.

[DallasDeb]

An economy that answers both the demands of distributive justice and social justice must incorporate into its structure “internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust.”

There can be no justice in the distribution of wealth when so many of the hands that the wealth goes to are corrupt, as in the UN ministers, the leaders of most African nations, the Middle East, the IMF, etc.

[kingpins10]

You are correct. Also, there should be no limitations on a free-market economy if freedom is what we seek. If you want to be a lazy bum and own nothing, then so be it. If you want to work hard and accumulate capital and possessions, so be it.

“Government is essentially the negation of liberty.”—Ludwig von Mises

[rom]

This is where Catholicism and I part ways. But as for Ayn Rand — the clergy is correct insofar as it goes to speaking to an individual.

It is when you try to *force* those who are not Christians to adhere to Jesus’ teachings (which is impossible without accepting Christ) that you run into the immovable object known as the unsaved human heart.