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ArdenB
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I feel like they are great organization that stands up for personal freedom and responsibility. They’ve spoken out againt taxpayer dollars going for abortions and stupid government programs. Is anyone else a fan?
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ribozyme
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I personally love the big four: Economic Policy Institute, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Center for American Progress, and The Brookings Institution.I feel like they are great organization that stands up for personal freedom and responsibility. They’ve spoken out againt taxpayer dollars going for abortions and stupid government programs. Is anyone else a fan?
Here’s a wonderful video on how CBPP helps the poor:
cbpp.org/video.htm
If you want to help the poor, one should try to get a job at one of those think tanks. Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely because there are few openings.
Make another thread on how great the Heritage Foundation is… Cato occasionally has sometime worthwhile to say.
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mmyers
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Anybody with a background in economics would agree…I feel like they are great organization that stands up for personal freedom and responsibility. They’ve spoken out againt taxpayer dollars going for abortions and stupid government programs. Is anyone else a fan?
In my research I have also found it helpful to read the Encyclical Centesimus Annus. It is a Catholic perspective of personal freedom and free markets. Sometimes I would get caught up with the research and forget that the reality is morality is not subject to the market, but the other way around.
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Maxply
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I’ve got a background in economics, and I find libertarianism to be simplistic. The Cato Institute’s real mission ends up helping Koch Industries and large corporate contributors who treasure the Almighty Dollar over the Person.
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tomarin
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not to divert the natural progress of this conversation, but is there any philosophical difference between so-called “beltway libertarians” and rank-and-file libertarians and is the cato institute a part of the inside the beltway faction?
i don’t know squat about libertarians and i’d appreciate any enlightenment that you kind people can offer.
i don’t know squat about libertarians and i’d appreciate any enlightenment that you kind people can offer.
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mmyers
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Hence the reference to Centesimus Annus.I’ve got a background in economics, and I find libertarianism to be simplistic. The Cato Institute’s real mission ends up helping Koch Industries and large corporate contributors who treasure the Almighty Dollar over the Person.
"Pope John Paul II, in his Encyclical Centesimus Annus (n. 34), stressed the importance of the free market as “the most efficient instrument for utilising resources and effectively responding to needs”. But likewise he also immediately noted that “there are many human needs which find no place on the market” and that “it is a strict duty of justice and truth not to allow such fundamental human needs to remain unsatisfied’.”
-INTERVENTION BY THE HOLY SEE DELEGATION
TO THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Markets are not to be worshiped they are to serve the freedom of the people.
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ribozyme
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That’s what a liberal would say… and no liberals are not communists or socialists. And even Sweden has a market economy. However market economies do not satisfy some needs… it cannot provide for programs for the unemployed which are refered to as AMS-åtgärder in Sweden.Hence the reference to Centesimus Annus.
"Pope John Paul II, in his Encyclical Centesimus Annus (n. 34), stressed the importance of the free market as “the most efficient instrument for utilising resources and effectively responding to needs”. But likewise he also immediately noted that “there are many human needs which find no place on the market” and that “it is a strict duty of justice and truth not to allow such fundamental human needs to remain unsatisfied’.”
-INTERVENTION BY THE HOLY SEE DELEGATION
TO THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Markets are not to be worshiped they are to serve the freedom of the people.
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mmyers
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Social Programs are not the end all be all either.That’s what a liberal would say… and no liberals are not communists or socialists. And even Sweden has a market economy. However market economies do not satisfy some needs… it cannot provide for programs for the unemployed which are refered to as AMS-åtgärder in Sweden.
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