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fb101
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 Posted - 04/02/2009 : 19:48:44
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At a time when it surely seems that capitalism has run amok and poised the world on the edge of economic ruin, the temptation is very strong for the pendulum to swing too far left into the failed and immoral territory of socialism. Historically pure socialism has never worked, philosophically it cannot work, and morally it is inherently evil (because it undermines the right of private property ownership, an inherent human right) and hence should not be given a chance to work.
The response might be that what we have at the moment isn’t pure socialism. The problem is that the moment is incredibly fluid and the direction toward a more radical form of socialism under way with frightening speed. Unless, of course, you believe the politicians and their appointees whose stock-in-trade has become lies, deception, and self-interest.
The common error is to think that socialism helps the poor and disenfranchised. As Pope Leo XIII pointed out as long ago as 1891 in his Encyclical “Rerum Novarum”, socialism does not help the poor. Rather, it reduces everyone to the same lowest common denominator of poverty and misery, while at the same time drying up the very sources of capital.
Fr. John Corapi
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Delawhere Jack
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 04/02/2009 : 22:00:28
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Makes me proud to be a Catholic, even if not a practicing one....
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"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 04/03/2009 : 12:58:37
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What the US is touting at Capitalism today is realy a form of Socialism.
The U.S. Government already controls the transportation, education, food, medicine, energy, communication, and even the media. Some are controled more than others, but to me that is clearly not Capitolism. |
Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people, to the house of the daughters of Zion, to the help of the people of the God of this Land even Jesus Christ. |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 04/04/2009 : 18:20:02
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Cody is correct.
Have you noticed that the cost of Health care and Education has increased greatly over the past few years (say 70s to now)? They have increase way more than other goods.
If you think it is the government getting involved at a high level, then you would be right.
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`Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.' Will Rogers
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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The evils of socialism - Christian view
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