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To: arthurus
If we had actual free market capitalism working in an actually Christian based culture...

You still would hear the Marxism. To them, Christian Capitalism is the British East India Company. it's the Opium Wars. It's a mustachioed Cockney foreman beating the "darkies" when they fail to meet a quota. It's a robber baron impoverishing coal miners for no reason other than personal greed (his company would have magically sprung up by itself without him...) It's all about breaking unions. It's today's Wall Street - though they fail to notice that the current President is owned and operated by that same Wall Street.

A complete absence of economic education leads directly to feelings of entitlement, easily manipulated by priests and politicians alike. Where is the benefit for the hierarchy in an independent, free-thinking populace?

7 posted on 12/06/2013 5:09:01 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“It’s today’s Wall Street - though they fail to notice that the current President is owned and operated by that same Wall Street.”


Exactamundo!!


14 posted on 12/06/2013 5:43:33 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“To them...” Is not Christian based free market. It would not look like such to the Pope or the rest of “them” were it a Christian based free market economy. Some bishops and some Catholic writers have had wrong headed opinions about things and written about them. They are not the mind of the Church. There are Catholics who think they are Progressives or rather Progressives and Communists and other vacuous liberals who think they are Catholics. They do not speak for the Church. And when the Pope speaks on Economics he is decidedly not speaking ex cathedra.


15 posted on 12/06/2013 5:49:59 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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