[RobbyS]

I think you have confused our constitutional system, a system in which capitalism thrives, with capitalism itself.

[FredZarguna]

Our constitutional system does not really admit of any other kind of economic practice. With regards to the [Capital C] Constitution, a government with limited, specifically enumerated powers in which the both the regulation of commerce and the power to tax were narrowly very circumscribed is a design made for economic liberty and unsuitable to any other. Add to that a (small C) constitution of case law and a common law tradition which respected the inviolability of contracts and the sanctity of private property, and you pretty much have enshrined the whole idea of capitalism in both the Constitution and the constitution of the United States.

Papists (and other mystics) take note: our economic decline -- including the economic decline of the working and middle classes -- began in the 1930's, just when we began to impose the very "processes" and "structures" that the pope is calling for more of. The poor have been able to live off of the depreciation of a wealthy nation for 80 years, but the time is now upon us when the very plans, structures, and processes that the pope thinks are such grand ideas, instituted during America's "progressive" era, will mean widespread misery for the poor.

A broke country doesn't take care of the indigent very well.

It goes without saying that he'll never realize what caused the misery, any more than will you or his other blind followers.