Posted on 03/17/2013 4:38:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct 1, 2009 / 09:01 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has called for an ethical response to solve the problem of social debt, saying that, not only do terrorism, repression and murder violate human rights, but also extreme poverty and the “unjust economic structures that give rise to great inequalities.”
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Its culture and a lack of a racially different underclass in Scandinavia
Let them keep importing African server class and see where that leads
In the 3rd World poverty is a direct result of government regulation limiting people’s ability to strive and succeed. Governments there have created classes of citizens as serfs and lords through laws.
How are things different here? Look at any urban area and you’ll see a devastating amount of regulation. The urban poor are entrepreneurs. That’s the natural state, but they have to operate in a black market created by onerous state regulations. These regulations serve only to sustain a leech class of crony capitalists.
Think about driving a cab. You cannot even own a cab without a medallion. By limiting the supply of medallions the cost of one has risen to hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions. Everyone loses and there are thousands of lasws like that stopping people from living.
Yet, he is arguing for the same type of “positive rights” that Obama believes our Constitution is flawed for not including.
You find it disturbing because you are looking at it through the lens of an American viewfinder.
Here in this country we had an entire continent to claim and for the average person claim, a government that protected the rights of the individual working man to own land, and an educational system that can or should be able to lift one out of poverty.
If you lived in a country where the elite owned almost all of the arable land, grew crops for export instead of feeding the poor, and had little chance of “getting ahead” through education, you would understand why marxism, liberation theology, and other such left-wing ideologies take hold.
In countries such as these, there’s no easy answer, but that doesn’t mean the pope doesn’t speak for the poor. It’s his JOB to speak for the poor.
He's "arguing for" the Gospel.
From POPULORUM PROGRESSIO - Pope Paul VI:
"The Church, which has long experience in human affairs and has no desire to be involved in the political activities of any nation, "seeks but one goal: to carry forward the work of Christ under the lead of the befriending Spirit. And Christ entered this world to give witness to the truth; to save, not to judge; to serve, not to be served."
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"The Scale of Values - What are less than human conditions? The material poverty of those who lack the bare necessities of life, and the moral poverty of those who are crushed under the weight of their own self-love; oppressive political structures resulting from the abuse of ownership or the improper exercise of power, from the exploitation of the worker or unjust transactions."
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