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To: Willie Green

Well --- I'm a Catholic and I'll still go to Mass today --- and I know how the Catholic Church wants it's wealthy Catholics to practice charity and give alms to the poor --- but as an American I don't believe in that set up --- I believe in a self-reliant middle class --- taxes for international poverty programs are not the answer --- we need to promote the middle class -- a society built around people being able to work themselves into a comfortable lifestyle --- not waiting for some wealthy guy to hand them over a few coins.


90 posted on 09/26/2004 9:46:29 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: FITZ
--- but as an American I don't believe in that set up --- I believe in a self-reliant middle class --- taxes for international poverty programs are not the answer --- we need to promote the middle class -- a society built around people being able to work themselves into a comfortable lifestyle

As you are well aware, I share your views on domestic capitalism, where our Founders have provided a Constitutional system of checks and balances to establish a moral and level playing field for economic competition.

Unfortunately, in a 21st Century of globalization, such a system of checks and balances does not exist on an international scale. And even though I'm opposed to the globalization trend in favor of our own national sovereignty, it may be necessary to permanently shackle global corporatism with its evil twin, global socialism, in hopes that the two extremes eventually destroy each other.

116 posted on 09/26/2004 10:09:04 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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