[BikerJoe]

Pope needs to shut up and concentrate on saving souls. Free enterprise, i.e. “capitalism” is the only ethical economic system. It is the free and un-coerced exchange of goods and services. What sort of coercion does he propose to inflict on the system?

I think the Pope is concerned that we have too few capitalist leaders that espouse the following:

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Both are quotes by noted communist Henry Ford.

[Biggirl]

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”

John Adams, An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, August 29, 1763